Finally, the Think Tank participants discussed the importance of developing collaborative resources. As discussed above, there was support for a clearinghouse to share results from GxE studies, and that this should not be limited to “significant” or publishable findings. There was also an emphasis on providing a resource or clearinghouse for sharing software. Methods and software not only need to be developed and validated, but to be implemented they need to be fast, uncomplicated, well-documented and available to the broader research community. Sharing of this software could follow a model similar to the recently developed Genetic Simulation Resources [Peng, et al. 2013].
