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Large-Scale Data Journal
Published by BGI with bmc
Editor-in-Chief: Laurie Goodman, PhDEditor: Scott Edmunds, PhDAssistant Editor: Alexandra Basford,
PhD
About The Journal Open access, online journal for the publication of all types of biological studies that use or create large-scale data sets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New journal format that combines standard manuscript publication with an extensive database to host all associated data.
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Data hosting will follow standard funding agency and community guidelines.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evolving data repository beginning with 'omic’-type data and growing to support other biological large-scale data, such as imaging data, cohort
data, metadata, and others.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Editorial interaction with the different biological communities to determine the best means of hosting and accessing their type of data.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Integrated tools to promote more widespread access, viewing, and analysis of the stored data.
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BGI Cloud Computing resources for handling and analyzing large-scale data.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOI assignment available for submitted data to allow ease of finding and citing datasets, as well as for citation tracking.
Criteria and Focus of Journal/Database
Reproducibility/Reuse
Utility/Usability
Standards/Searchability/Scale/Sharing
Data publishing/DOI
Contact Info:[email protected]
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Aimed at increasing transparency, reproducibility, and usability of all large-
scale Biological datasets
Coming Fall 2011