Example poto for sequence data. | Photo: David Ausserhofer
In their article, the authors present a roadmap to establishing guidelines for the fair reuse of sequence data. This roadmap was developed in close cooperation with a data consortium of microbiome scientists (Data Reuse Consortium), which also includes IGB scientists Prof. Hans-Peter Grossart and Prof. Mark Gessner.
One of the researchers' ideas is to use a Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI) for public sequence data, which will be associated with at least one Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) account. The machine-readable DRI tag indicates that the data creators prefer to be contacted prior to data reuse, and simultaneously provides data users with a mechanism to get in touch with the data creators. “The DRI aims to facilitate and foster collaborations, and serve as a guideline that can be expanded to other data types”, said Hans-Peter Grossart.
