Create style metadata: ‘ReadMe’ Recommended practices: Create a ReadMe file in a text editor like Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac). Save the file in the folder with your dataset. (Or if you are using a spreadsheet, you can create the ReadMe file in the first tab of the file.) Save the ReadMe file using a file name that describes the associated dataset. Example, ‘ReadMe_WesternBlot_LymphNodes_2016-09-15.’ Use consistent formating in your ReadMe files, ie outline the information in the same order and use consistent terminology. Use the ISO date format: YYYYMMDD. Follow the scientific conventions for your discipline, whenever possible, use terms from standardized taxonomies and vocabularies. Standardized taxonomies and vocabularies can be found at: Biosharing.org Bioportal.org Use unique identifiers when possible for resources like model organism strains or antibodies. Model organism databases: Mouse: MGI (informatics.jax.org) Zebrafish: ZFIN (zfin.org) Rat: Rat Genome Database (rgd.mcw.edu/) Fruit fly: Flybase (flybase.org) Yeast: Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) (yeastgenome.org) Worm: Wormbase (wormbase.org) Frog: Xenbase (xenbase.org) Antibody registry (antibodyregistry.org) Unique Identification of Resources
Create ‘ReadMe’ style metadata: Recommended practices: Create a ReadMe file in a text editor like Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac). Save the file in the folder with your dataset. (Or if you are using a spreadsheet, you can create the ReadMe file in the first tab of the file.) Save the ReadMe file using a file name that describes the associated dataset. Example, ‘ReadMe_WesternBlot_LymphNodes_2016-09-15.’ Use consistent formating in your ReadMe files, ie outline the information in the same order and use consistent terminology. Use the ISO date format: YYYYMMDD. Follow the scientific conventions for your discipline, whenever possible, use terms from standardized taxonomies and vocabularies. Standardized taxonomies and vocabularies can be found at: Biosharing.org Bioportal.org Use unique identifiers when possible for resources like model organism strains or antibodies. Model organism databases: Mouse: MGI (informatics.jax.org) Zebrafish: ZFIN (zfin.org) Rat: Rat Genome Database (rgd.mcw.edu/) Fruit fly: Flybase (flybase.org) Yeast: Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) (yeastgenome.org) Worm: Wormbase (wormbase.org) Frog: Xenbase (xenbase.org) Antibody registry (antibodyregistry.org) Unique Identification of Resources
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