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Oza, V.H.; Whitlock, J.H.; Wilk, E.J.; Uno-Antonison, A.; Wilk, B.; Gajapathy, M.; Howton, T.C.; Trull, A.; Ianov, L.; Worthey, E.A.; et al. Ten Simple Rules for Using Public Biological Data for Your Research. PLOS Computational Biology 2023, 19, e1010749, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010749.
Oza, V.H.; Whitlock, J.H.; Wilk, E.J.; Uno-Antonison, A.; Wilk, B.; Gajapathy, M.; Howton, T.C.; Trull, A.; Ianov, L.; Worthey, E.A.; et al. Ten Simple Rules for Using Public Biological Data for Your Research. PLOS Computational Biology 2023, 19, e1010749, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010749.
Oza, V.H.; Whitlock, J.H.; Wilk, E.J.; Uno-Antonison, A.; Wilk, B.; Gajapathy, M.; Howton, T.C.; Trull, A.; Ianov, L.; Worthey, E.A.; et al. Ten Simple Rules for Using Public Biological Data for Your Research. PLOS Computational Biology 2023, 19, e1010749, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010749.
Oza, V.H.; Whitlock, J.H.; Wilk, E.J.; Uno-Antonison, A.; Wilk, B.; Gajapathy, M.; Howton, T.C.; Trull, A.; Ianov, L.; Worthey, E.A.; et al. Ten Simple Rules for Using Public Biological Data for Your Research. PLOS Computational Biology 2023, 19, e1010749, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010749.
Abstract
With an increasing amount of biological data available publicly, there is a need for a guide on how to successfully download and use this data. The Ten simple rules for using public biological data are: 1) use public data purposefully in your research, 2) evaluate data for your use case, 3) check data reuse requirements and embargoes, 4) be aware of ethics for data reuse, 5) plan for data storage and compute requirements, 6) know what you are downloading, 7) download programmatically and verify integrity, 8) properly cite data, 9) make reprocessed data and models Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) and share, and 10) make pipelines and code FAIR and share. These rules are intended as a guide for researchers wanting to make use of available data and to increase data reuse and reproducibility.
Keywords
data; reproducibility; FAIR; data reuse; public data; big data; analysis
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Other
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
2 November 2022
Commenter:
Brittany Lasseigne
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
Slight changing to name of first rule, clarification about what is biological data, and clarification on IRB requirements for secondary data use.
Commenter: Brittany Lasseigne
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author