January 1, 2010
Journal Article

Omics.pnl.gov: A Portal for the Distribution and Sharing of Multi-Disciplinary Pan-Omics Information

Abstract

The data production of scientific studies is growing at a nearly exponential rate, leading to challenges in disseminating primary experimental results for peer review and public access, while simultaneously providing information that enables reproducing the studies and/or analyzing the results in a proper context. Recent mandates from various public funding agencies are requiring data release plans be included as a project goal. This requirement is coupled with an increased need for transparency in complex research, as evidenced by the data release policies of respected peer-reviewed journals. This combination of good scientific citizenship and funding requirements has brought the data distribution issue to the domain of scientific information management researchers. Herein, we present a web site designed to address these goals, the Biological MS Data and Software Distribution Center. This site leverages vast amounts of pre-existing experimental metadata stored in our purpose-built data management system to streamline the process of making these data available.

Revised: December 21, 2011 | Published: January 1, 2010

Citation

Auberry K.J., G.R. Kiebel, M.E. Monroe, J.N. Adkins, G.A. Anderson, and R.D. Smith. 2010. Omics.pnl.gov: A Portal for the Distribution and Sharing of Multi-Disciplinary Pan-Omics Information. Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics 3, no. 1:1-4. PNNL-SA-75729.