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
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Dr. Greg Wilson | gvwil...@software-carpentry.org
Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
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