The Nature Precedings’ Biosharing Collection has been just launched and it is set to offer a focal point for stakeholders in data policy and provides a “one-stop shop” for those seeking data policy documents and standards for high-throughput genomics and functional genomic bioscience data, in particular.
Last year, Nature Precedings, the online archive for pre-publication research findings from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), began to host citable data management plans (marker papers) in order to encourage data sharing. This was soon followed by the addition of standards documents for best research practice, aiming for broad consensus via community review and comment, as described in the Nature Genetics editorial “Discussing Standards”.
The BioSharing Collection will house data policies from multiple funding agencies as well as standards documents from different research communities. We are now pleased to announce that the data policy of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Genomic Science program is an early adopter of the Collection and a (non-exclusive copy) of their document is now been posted!
Like other documents on Nature Precedings, these are citable (have DOIs) and can be rapidly versioned. Further, all of the documents in this collection will be listed by Biosharing.org in the BioSharing catalogue which centralizes funders’ data policies and works to link them to reporting standards (minimal information checklists, terminologies, exchange format) and relevant tools and data repositories, in collaboration with existing resources.
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