DTU Biosustain open science

Status: This policy is part of the DTU Biosustain implementation of the DTU Policy of the Retention of Primary Materials and Data, which is reviewed and updated yearly.

Summary: DTU Biosustain Metadata Requirements policy applies to all employees including MSc and BSc students and guests and responsibility for ensuring adherence lies with the group leaders. This policy applies to research data/activities/materials/records acquired or otherwise used during research activities associated with DTU Biosustain.

 

Primary materials or research data are defined as any material (e.g. biological, chemical, notes, digital raw data etc.) that forms the basis of the research and underpins the research projects’ findings and other outcomes. The policy divides research data into two categories: digital data and physical data. Primary materials data should be retained in accordance with disciplinary traditions, otherwise for a minimum of five years after publication or public release of the research. Metadata is defined as the information about research data that is necessary for the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability in the future. Metadata should be retained indefinitely, to support publications and public release.

 

The data types considered in the policy are Genomics and transcriptomics (nucleic acid sequences), Proteomics (targeted and untargeted), Metabolomics (targeted and untargeted).

 

The metadata requirement for Genomics and transcriptomics is to be recorded in repositories of NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA), ArrayExpress, or the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA). The recommendation is based on the community-developed reporting standard of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) project ‘Minimum Information about any Sequence’ (MIxS), which is also supported by the ENA. As well as the specific requirements of the SRA for sample submission. There are no specific additions concerning proteomics data or metabolomics data as the repositories do not have many requirements and the upload can only happen through specialized systems. However, the DTU Biosustain RDM group specifically recommends the PRIDE Archive for Proteomics and the MetaboLights database for Metabolomics.

Contact info: cfb-rdm@biosustain.dtu.dk

Status: Updated May 2023

Summary: The Research Information Committee (RIC) has created data storage guidelines along with a decision tree to help researchers find the best place for their data. The decision tree has been created with the most general data types in mind and guides users through a series of yes or no questions to determine whether to store their data in a DTU- supported default option, DTU-supported cloud solutions, DTU Biosustain Benchling, or a public repository.

Contact info: cfb-rdm@biosustain.dtu.dk

Source: https://www.inside.dtu.dk/en/medarbejder/institutter/dtu-biosustain/rdm/data-storage-and-it-infrastructure