- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is bioinformatics?
- The role of public databases
- What makes a good bioinformatics database?
- Bioinformatics as an experimental science
- Summary
- Your feedback
- Learn more
- References
All materials are free cultural works licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, except where further licensing details are provided.
Managing and sharing data
It’s worth asking yourself whether you, your colleagues and collaborators are managing your data in such a way that you can maximise its re-use in the future. Regardless of whether you are working in an academic or a commercial environment, enabling the reuse of your data is becoming a central part of professional practice.
We have put together a few tips to help you visualise what to consider when collecting data for or from your experiments with the final aim of making them available for the scientific community. If you are interested in knowing more on this topic, try our online tutorial Bringing data to life: data management for the biomolecular sciences or watch our recorded webinars on why and how open access data are important, how to share them and how to find them. There are several excellent papers to get you started sharing and managing data (3-5).