Leonelli, Sabina, Smirnoff, N., Moore, Jonathan D., Cook, Charis and Bastow, Ruth (2013) Making open data work for plant scientists. Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 64 (Number 14). pp. 4109-4117. doi:10.1093/jxb/ert273

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Abstract

Despite the clear demand for open data sharing, its implementation within plant science is still limited. This is, at least in part, because open data-sharing raises several unanswered questions and challenges to current research practices. In this commentary, some of the challenges encountered by plant researchers at the bench when generating, interpreting, and attempting to disseminate their data have been highlighted. The difficulties involved in sharing sequencing, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics data are reviewed. The benefits and drawbacks of three data-sharing venues currently available to plant scientists are identified and assessed: (i) journal publication; (ii) university repositories; and (iii) community and project-specific databases. It is concluded that community and project-specific databases are the most useful to researchers interested in effective data sharing, since these databases are explicitly created to meet the researchers’ needs, support extensive curation, and embody a heightened awareness of what it takes to make data reuseable by others. Such bottom-up and community-driven approaches need to be valued by the research community, supported by publishers, and provided with long-term sustainable support by funding bodies and government. At the same time, these databases need to be linked to generic databases where possible, in order to be discoverable to the majority of researchers and thus promote effective and efficient data sharing. As we look forward to a future that embraces open access to data and publications, it is essential that data policies, data curation, data integration, data infrastructure, and data funding are linked together so as to foster data access and research productivity.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology Q Science > QK Botany Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) Faculty of Science > Centre for Systems Biology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Databases -- Great Britain, Institutional repositories -- Great Britain, Plant proteomics, Plant molecular biology
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Experimental Botany
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0022-0957
Official Date:	2013
Dates:	Date Event 2013 Published
Volume:	Volume 64
Number:	Number 14
Page Range:	pp. 4109-4117
DOI:	10.1093/jxb/ert273
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC), Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Grant number:	ES/F028180/1 (ESRC) ; BBG0214811, BB/F005903/1, BB/J004057/1, BB/I020004/1, BB/K013602/1, BB/F005806/1 (BBSRC) ; IF0157 (DEFRA)

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