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. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D1266-D1270.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx965.

The BioStudies database-one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study

Ugis Sarkans  1 , Mikhail Gostev  1 , Awais Athar  1 , Ehsan Behrangi  1 , Olga Melnichuk  1 , Ahmed Ali  1 , Jasmine Minguet  1 , Juan Camillo Rada  1 , Catherine Snow  1 , Andrew Tikhonov  1 , Alvis Brazma  1 , Johanna McEntyre  1
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The BioStudies database-one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study

Ugis Sarkans et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

BioStudies (www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies) is a new public database that organizes data from biological studies. Typically, but not exclusively, a study is associated with a publication. BioStudies offers a simple way to describe the study structure, and provides flexible data deposition tools and data access interfaces. The actual data can be stored either in BioStudies or remotely, or both. BioStudies imports supplementary data from Europe PMC, and is a resource for authors and publishers for packaging data during the manuscript preparation process. It also can support data management needs of collaborative projects. The growth in multiomics experiments and other multi-faceted approaches to life sciences research mean that studies result in a diversity of data outputs in multiple locations. BioStudies presents a solution to ensuring that all these data and the associated publication(s) can be found coherently in the longer term.

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The main concepts of BioStudies, and data submission routes.
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A BioStudies record link from Europe PMC.
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