Developing, linking, and providing access to supplemental genetics dataset vcf files

This conference proceeding paper is the written version component of the data panel discussion on developing a dataset collection using Zenodo for a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida. The “Documenting a Genomics Variant Files Data Management: Developing Research Data management (RDM) workflows and providing research data access via HPC” project inspired this paper. The large vcf datasets used for this project ranged from 34 megabytes to 43 gigabytes. The researcher needed to (1) develop a data repository for supplemental datasets vcf files too large for attachment as supplemental data files for journal submissions, (2) provide digital object identifiers (DOIs) for all vcf dataset files, and (3) link the supplemental vcf dataset files to the journal article via the vcf doi. These three outcomes were accomplished during phase 1 (June 2016 – December 2016) of this project and presented at the GL18 conference at the National Academy of Medicine in New York, New York.