Greg, I've commented, but also wanted to post the link on Twitter to hit that audience. Before I do that, could you put in a suitable description on the issue? (Or if you don't want me/us to publicize on Twitter, then please tell me now :)
thanks, --titus On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:11:15AM -0500, Greg Wilson wrote: > During a workshop last week, a post-doc who's about to start setting up > a new bioinformatics lab asked, "Where should I store the data?" Right > now, her group has samples in a freezer and sequence data from them > archived on a couple of portable hard drives (with copies of some of > that data on lab members' laptops). The data is from human subjects, > but has been anonymized, and they're expecting to get more (but "more" > means terabytes, not petabytes, at least in the near future). Options > being discussed include everything from a paid Dropbox account to FTP > space on the university's secure server. > > I know a lot of people on this list have experience and opinions, so > I've opened an issue for discussion at > https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/797. If you'd like to tell > us what you do, and why, please add a comment there. (If you don't have > permission to comment, please send me your GitHub username, and I'll fix > that.) Once we've collected some advice, we'll turn it into a blog post > that we can point to from our lessons. > > And please note that comments from people who *aren't* bioinformaticians > are equally welcome. What do people do in ecology? In economics? In > astronomy? How well does it work? When *doesn't* it work, and why? > > Thanks, > Greg > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
