Searching across hundreds of databases

Our searching services are busy right now. Your search will reload in five seconds.

X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship.

Mark D Wilkinson | Michel Dumontier | I Jsbrand Jan Aalbersberg | Gabrielle Appleton | Myles Axton | Arie Baak | Niklas Blomberg | Jan-Willem Boiten | Luiz Bonino da Silva Santos | Philip E Bourne | Jildau Bouwman | Anthony J Brookes | Tim Clark | Mercè Crosas | Ingrid Dillo | Olivier Dumon | Scott Edmunds | Chris T Evelo | Richard Finkers | Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran | Alasdair J G Gray | Paul Groth | Carole Goble | Jeffrey S Grethe | Jaap Heringa | Peter A C 't Hoen | Rob Hooft | Tobias Kuhn | Ruben Kok | Joost Kok | Scott J Lusher | Maryann E Martone | Albert Mons | Abel L Packer | Bengt Persson | Philippe Rocca-Serra | Marco Roos | Rene van Schaik | Susanna-Assunta Sansone | Erik Schultes | Thierry Sengstag | Ted Slater | George Strawn | Morris A Swertz | Mark Thompson | Johan van der Lei | Erik van Mulligen | Jan Velterop | Andra Waagmeester | Peter Wittenburg | Katherine Wolstencroft | Jun Zhao | Barend Mons
Scientific data | 2016

There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data. A diverse set of stakeholders-representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and scholarly publishers-have come together to design and jointly endorse a concise and measureable set of principles that we refer to as the FAIR Data Principles. The intent is that these may act as a guideline for those wishing to enhance the reusability of their data holdings. Distinct from peer initiatives that focus on the human scholar, the FAIR Principles put specific emphasis on enhancing the ability of machines to automatically find and use the data, in addition to supporting its reuse by individuals. This Comment is the first formal publication of the FAIR Principles, and includes the rationale behind them, and some exemplar implementations in the community.

Pubmed ID: 26978244 RIS Download

Research resources used in this publication

None found

Additional research tools detected in this publication

Antibodies used in this publication

None found

Associated grants

  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U24 DK097771
  • Agency: NIDA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U24 DA039832
  • Agency: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: BB/H024921/1
  • Agency: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: BB/E025080/1
  • Agency: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: BB/I000771/1

Publication data is provided by the National Library of Medicine ® and PubMed ®. Data is retrieved from PubMed ® on a weekly schedule. For terms and conditions see the National Library of Medicine Terms and Conditions.

This is a list of tools and resources that we have found mentioned in this publication.


BioPortal (tool)

RRID:SCR_002713

Open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides access via Web browsers and Web services to ontologies. It supports ontologies in OBO format, OWL, RDF, Rich Release Format (RRF), Protege frames, and LexGrid XML. Functionality includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies as well as to comment on, and create mappings for ontologies. Any registered user can submit an ontology. The NCBO Annotator and NCBO Resource Index can also be accessed via BioPortal. Additional features: * Add Reviews: rate the ontology according to several criteria and describe your experience using the ontology. * Add Mappings: submit point-to-point mappings or upload bulk mappings created with external tools. Notification of new Mappings is RSS-enabled and Mappings can be browsed via BioPortal and accessed via Web services. * NCBO Annotator: Tool that tags free text with ontology terms. NCBO uses the Annotator to generate ontology annotations, creating an ontology index of these resources accessible via the NCBO Resource Index. The Annotator can be accessed through BioPortal or directly as a Web service. The annotation workflow is based on syntactic concept recognition (using the preferred name and synonyms for terms) and on a set of semantic expansion algorithms that leverage the ontology structure (e.g., is_a relations). * NCBO Resource Index: The NCBO Resource Index is a system for ontology based annotation and indexing of biomedical data; the key functionality of this system is to enable users to locate biomedical data linked via ontology terms. A set of annotations is generated automatically, using the NCBO Annotator, and presented in BioPortal. This service uses a concept recognizer (developed by the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan) to produce a set of annotations and expand them using ontology is_a relations. * Web services: Documentation on all Web services and example code is available at: BioPortal Web services.

View all literature mentions

Datahub (tool)

RRID:SCR_003996

Data management platform and data repository based on the CKAN tool for managing and publishing collections of data. It enables the user to search for data, register published datasets, create and manage groups of datasets, and get updates from datasets and groups of interest.

View all literature mentions

FigShare (tool)

RRID:SCR_004328

Repository for all data, figures, theses, publications, posters, presentations, filesets, videos, datasets, negative data in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner with Digital Object Identifiers. Allows to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow. Features integration with ORCID, Symplectic Elements, can import items from Github and is a source tracked by Altmetric.com. Figshare gives users unlimited public space and 1GB of private storage space for free. Data are digitally preserved by CLOCKSS. Supported by Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, as a community-based, open science project that retains its autonomy.

View all literature mentions