If they're sequence data then they really should be deposited in the sequence read archive at NCBI or the equivalent at EMBL. The journal editors/reviewers will likely insist on this.
Pat Sent frim my iPhone, expext more typos then nirmal > On Feb 9, 2015, at 07:11, Greg Wilson <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
