BioStudies Database: A Resource For Sharing And Publishing Life Sciences Data
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Ugis Sarkans, Ph.D., team leader, EMBL-EBI
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Abstract: The BioStudies database is an EMBL-EBI resource that serves as a repository for descriptions of biological studies, provides links to associated data housed in both other internal databases and external resources, and archives data that do not fit into specialized databases. BioStudies is used across the entire scientific process lifecycle, supporting data sharing during collaborative projects, data deposition for manuscript submission, creation of data packages post-publication, and assisting projects by offering sustainable data archival and access services.
BioStudies offers mechanisms for defining and implementing metadata guidelines tailored to specific data sources, projects, or emerging communities, and organizes datasets into collections. A set of general services facilitates the data journey from initial upload to public availability.
In this talk I will cover the main concepts of BioStudies, and will illustrate how we serve various communities by showing some of the data collections that we hold. The talk will be targeted towards scientists seeking ways to publish heterogenous datasets associated with their manuscripts, data stewards looking to set up data sharing for a new project or data type, data scientists needing large volumes of life sciences data, as well as data management system developers.
Bio: Ugis Sarkans leads the EMBL-EBI at EMBL-EBI. BioStudies database is an ELIXIR Core Resource for aggregation, archiving and publishing of heterogeneous life sciences data linked to publication. The team also collaborates on a number of European ‘multi-omics’ projects in a data management capacity. Ugis has been at EBI since 2000, involved in the development of FAIR data resources and the associated community standards.
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