BMC Research Notes and BioSharing – collaboration changes everything

"Since its launch in 2008, BMC Research Notes has been working with research communities in all fields of biology and medicine to ensure that data files are published in standard, reusable formats. To facilitate this we have been aiming to produce recommendations for domain-specific data file standards, making it easier for researchers to find information about the optimum, interoperable formats for their data. This is a formidable task but now, via an exciting new partnership with BioSharing, the first version of the catalogue is available....BioSharing is a collaborative project founded by Susanna-Assunta Sansone and Dawn Field (Oxford e-Research Center at the University of Oxford) which works at the global level with different communities to build stable linkages in particular between journals, funders, implementing data sharing policies, and well-constituted standardization efforts in the biosciences domain, to expedite the communication and the production of an integrated standards-based framework for the capture and sharing of high-throughput genomics and functional genomic bioscience data...."