A requirement that DOE-funded researchers submit metadata and links for their papers goes into effect on 1 October.
The policy also requires researchers to submit "metadata and supplementary materials" associated with a paper, but does not directly articulate a policy requiring the public posting and free use of all publicly funded data.
For this reason, researchers are encouraged to submit metadata and raw sequence reads to the INSDC Nucleotide Archives either directly or by the EMBL-EBI metagenomics portal.
In addition, data/metadata congruence checks included in the Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA) underlying the NIS allow us to examine the quality of metadata submitted.
This is applied to all data and metadata submitted to the local staging database.
The metadata were submitted by the EMMES Corporation, which serves as the clinical data collection site for the HMP.
The NCBI resource dbGaP (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gap), which is a central repository for genotype and phenotype data, extracts such metadata from submitted datasets and provides an interface to search through them.
All data sets and associated metadata have been submitted to Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR, http://www.viprbrc.org).
These repositories store electronic datasets submitted by researchers and attach metadata such as author names, date of submission, file formats, or citations of related journal articles.
Data need to be submitted to dbGaP before the metadata are extracted and access restrictions can be imposed on uploaded files.
