There's a lot of data that can be collected without much knowledge of experiment design, consider e.g. all the sequencing projects. The problem is that if the

There's a lot of data that can be collected without much knowledge of experiment design, consider e.g. all the sequencing projects. The problem is that if the data ends up in inconsistently formatted spreadsheets or poorly conceived custom formats, the effort required to extract the data for analysis later (especially across multiple projects) can be prohibitive.