If these data are an important piece of your computational workflow it might make sense to archive & describe them in an actual data repository (Dryad, figshare, OSF, etc.) and pull them / cache locally when you run your calibration.
-- Allen Lee Associate Research Professional Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment <http://cbie.asu.edu> Network for Computational Modeling in the Social and Ecological Sciences <http://comses.net> Arizona State University Mail Code: 4804 Tempe, AZ 85287 *p: *480-727-4646 *email: *[email protected] *web: *https://github.com/alee On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:48 PM thompson.m.j via discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I am a member of a computational biology lab that models processes in > developmental biology and cell signaling and calibrates these models with > microscopy data. I've recently gotten into using version control using git > for our codes, and I am now trying to determine the best course of action > to take for the data. These are the tools I'm aware of but have not tested: > > The Dat Project https://datproject.org/ > Git Large File Storage https://git-lfs.github.com/ > Git Annex https://git-annex.branchable.com/ > Data Version Control (DVC) https://dvc.org/ > > All projects seem to be aimed at researchers trying to integrate data > versioning into their workflow and collaboration, and some seem to have a > few other bells and whistles. > > Now, the only reason I settled on using git for my work is that it seems > to be the de facto standard version control just about the whole world > uses. Using this same reasoning, does anyone here have a keen insight into > which of the data versioning tools listed here or otherwise is (or will > most likely become) the standard for data version control? > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tb776978a905c0bf8-M26854e6b9b3500ea27de1bc9> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tb776978a905c0bf8-M7f55c6036bee6740add39cce Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
