Image via WikipediaNautilus writes about a correspondence sent to Nature Methods in which it is reported that the rate of deposition of raw microarray data, in support of publications, was less than 50%. They write
Seven years after the elaboration of the MIAME principles, the emerging discipline of microarray meta-analysis, exemplified by the cancer gene expression resource Oncomine, continues to be hobbled by the mundane, time-consuming and often fruitless exercise of tracking down annotated full datasets. We call for a renewed collective effort from researchers, publishers and funding organizations to redress this situation and secure these data-rich research resources for posterity
I think the PDB is one of the greatest success stories, where a community essentially self selected a resource where data would be deposited. That doesn’t mean that it’s the only place data has to go, but it’s the common repository and that act drove a set of standards.
I do wonder though, as we move towards a globally distributed collaborative environment over time, should the data be in one place, or globally distributed with a set of APIs that talk to a service, pulling data from the closest location.
Deposit that data folks
I think the PDB is one of the greatest success stories, where a community essentially self selected a resource where data would be deposited. That doesn’t mean that it’s the only place data has to go, but it’s the common repository and that act drove a set of standards.
I do wonder though, as we move towards a globally distributed collaborative environment over time, should the data be in one place, or globally distributed with a set of APIs that talk to a service, pulling data from the closest location.
DATA EVERYWHERE
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