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Most scientific datasets are not that large. For every CERN type study there are 1000x biology papers with n=3 where the collected results sit in a single tab o
by 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
Most scientific datasets are not that large. For every CERN type study there are 1000x biology papers with n=3 where the collected results sit in a single tab of an Excel document.
- jrumbut 3y agoVery true, but if you're planning on expanding the work of a small, pilot study like that and you don't have the people who were involved in the original you probably need to recreate the study (to shake out the kinks in the protocol, confirm results for yourself, etc). It would be challenging to find a solution robust enough for CERN type data but also simple enough for an n=3 undergraduate research project (that may have yielded some interesting results). I don't know what the solution is there. My intuition is that university libraries could be involved, and that a data librarian could help you get your small study into shape or be embedded at a percentage effort on a large study.
- robwwilliams 3y agoThose do not belong in IPFS. They won’t be replicated and may die.
- jhbadger 3y agoDepends on what you mean by "biology". Maybe some traditional naturalist-style data about where butterfly species were spotted or something like that could just be a spreadsheet, but in more modern biology studies things like RNA-Seq are used, which generate gigabytes or even terabytes of data per paper.
- ISL 3y agoThose biologists might have huge image archives, even if they use microscopes.
- jkh1 3y agoIn biology we now routinely produce datasets in the multiple terrabytes range. It can easily be n = 3 x 10 TB such as for example imaging 3 fly embryos by light sheet microscopy.