Microbiology

What's this Data Management page for?

Grant-awarding agencies like the National Science Foundation require a data management plan in grant applications. Increasingly, they are also requiring data generated by grant-funded research be made available whenever possible.

Making your data available and useful for other researchers can amplify the influence and importance of your research.

Open Data Commons
A set of legal tools to help you provide and use Open Data.

Why Good Data Management is Important

"Please stop talking now."

Open Data Repositories for Microbiology

Collections of data repositories

Open Access Directory/Data repositories Research data repositories, often from peer-reviewed articles. Data are open access - anyone can use the data (unless otherwise noted) in these repositories with proper attribution.

Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org

Search for Microbiology repositories

And a few examples:

ComBase
Resource for quantitative and predictive food microbiology. ComBase includes a database of observed microbial responses to a variety of food-related environments and a collection of predictive models.
Dryad
An international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. From the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in coordination with a large group of journals and societies in evolutionary biology and ecology
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Free and open access to biodiversity data through a global network of countries and organizations; promotes and facilitates the mobilization, access, discovery and use of information about the occurrence of organisms over time and across the planet.
Microbial Protein Interaction Database
MPIDB provides physical microbial interactions. Over 24,000 experimentally determined interactions among proteins of 250 bacterial species/strains can be browsed and downloaded. Data are open access, but submission is restricted.