Introducing SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview, NLM’s latest tool in the fight against COVID-19 

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a new resource, called the SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview, that aggregates data related to SARS-CoV-2 variants from sequences available in NCBI’s GenBank and Sequence Read Archive (SRA) databases. SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview, a freely available online dashboard, was developed with guidance from the TRACE Working Group as … Continue reading Introducing SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview, NLM’s latest tool in the fight against COVID-19 

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The wait is over… NIH’s Public Sequence Read Archive is now open access on the cloud

The NIH NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) on AWS, containing all public SRA data, is now live! This data is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) under the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP) with support from NIH’s Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) initiative. The SRA is NIH’s primary repository for raw, … Continue reading The wait is over… NIH’s Public Sequence Read Archive is now open access on the cloud

NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are happy to announce that the controlled- and public-access Sequence Read Archive (SRA)–one of the world’s largest repositories of raw next generation sequencing data–will be freely accessible from Amazon S3 via the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP) as of … Continue reading NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are happy to announce that the controlled- and public-access Sequence Read Archive (SRA)–one of the world’s largest repositories of raw next generation sequencing data–will be freely accessible from Amazon S3 via the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP) as of … Continue reading NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

The Hidden Gems of Data Accessibility Statements

  Sometimes the best part of reading a scientific paper is an unexpected moment of recognition — not in the science, but in the humanity of the scientists. It’s reassuring in a way to find

Call for Papers: Open quantum computation and simulation

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PLOS Criteria for Recommended Data Repositories

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Rare Disease Day Spotlight on PLOS Authors: Open Data Repositories in Practice

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Social Media, Preprints, and a Dinosaur Tooth

0000-0002-8715-2896Map showing the maximum extent of the Western Interior Seaway that split North America during the Late Cretaceous. The location of the new tooth from Mississippi is indicated by a red dot. Researchers have debated

Open Data Projects Win Wellcome Trust, NIH and HHMI Open Science Prize

0000-0002-8715-28960000-0001-7318-5892 “Scientists can do much more with their own data if things are shared publicly and shared publicly quickly in order to have potential for real world impact.” -Trevor Bedford, lead of the Open Science