'Omics Data Sharing

Abstract

Data sharing, and the good annotation practices it depends on, must become part of the fabric of daily research for researchers and funders.

Agenda of the “BioSharing workshop – Unifying Bio-Resources Descriptors”

“…Several policies have emerged in response to the increased quantity of data available and the correspondingly large variability in their storage and analysis 1 . The need to store and share this data helps explaining the explosion in the number and variety of tools and databases that cater to the needs of biological research.…”

FlowRepository: A resource of annotated flow cytometry datasets associated with peer‐reviewed publications

“…Private funding agencies, regulatory agencies, publishers, and the scientific community have all recognized the importance of protecting cumulative data outputs to accelerate subsequent exploitation through the community-based development of public data repositories (11). In a recent re-evaluation of 18 peer-reviewed Nature Genetics microarray articles, the inability of researchers to reproduce analyses was directly linked to data unavailability, incomplete data annotation, or specification of data processing and analysis (12).…”

Functional Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Bioinformatics for Systems Biology

“…NGS is however not mature enough for routine use in clinical field [37]. The ever increasing speed, quality and range of applications of sequencing methods have created a huge flow of data and related challenging requirements not only for computing power, memory and storage [38][39][40] but also data sharing [41]. Reads mapped onto a reference genome can be displayed with other sources of annotation such as NCBI [42] with Ensembl [28] and UCSC browsers [43].…”