- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is publicly available data?
- Examples of publicly available databases
- Licences and data reuse
- Programmatic access
- Sharing your data
- Further learning
- Your feedback
- References
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Data standards
Data standards are needed to describe data in a way that can be accessed, read and retrieved by every other member of your scientific communities, as well as computers.
Data standards can include:
- Data formats – specific ways of structuring data or use of certain files types
- Controlled vocabularies and ontologies
- Reporting guidelines or minimum reporting checklists
- Unique identifiers for data that are persistent, unique and resolvable
 Learn more about these topics with our online tutorial Bioinformatics for the terrified. |