- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is publicly available data?
- Examples of publicly available databases
- Data management for publicly available data
- Licences and data reuse
- Programmatic access
- Sharing your data
- Further learning
- Your feedback
- References
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Sharing your data
Following your own research, you may have data that is suitable for submission to a data resource. There are some tools to help you identify which data resource may be suitable for your submission, such as the EMBL-EBI data submission wizard which asks you some questions to determine the most suitable EMBL-EBI resource (figure 10).
Talking to the resource’s biocurators can be a great place to start. They can usually be contacted via a resource’s helpdesk or ‘contact us’ page.
Biocurators are scientists who extract, interpret, combine and archive data from a variety of sources, such as literature and author-provided materials. They standardise the data and make it machine readable, more discoverable and accessible to the public.
Biocurators are also available to help you discover what data you can submit to their resource and how you can do so.
When thinking about submitting data it is good to start planning as soon as possible so you can think about necessary data management, such as data structure and any required data standards.
 Learn more about submitting data in the online tutorials Bringing data to life: Data management for the biomolecular sciences. |