National resources: United Kingdom
Introduction
This page provides an overview of the data management resources in the UK. The target audience is the scientific community in the life sciences and collaborators.
Funder policies, guidelines and data management plan (DMP) templates
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): Concordat on open research and Open access policy
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC): DM guidelines, DMP template and Data sharing policy
- Medical Research Council (MRC): DM guidelines, DMP template and Data sharing policy
- Wellcome Trust: DM and sharing guidelines
- The Royal Society: DM and sharing guidelines
- Cancer Research UK: DM and sharing guidelines
- British Heart Foundation: DM and sharing guidelines
- Horizon 2020: DM guidelines and DMP template
National policies and recommendations for research data
- UK Data Protection Act (2018)
- The Five Safes framework enabling data services to provide safe research access to data
- Goldacre Review into how the efficient and safe use of health data for research and analysis can benefit patients and the healthcare sector
Domain-specific data infrastructures
- CLIMB-BIG-DATA project providing cloud infrastructure and storage for big data microbial bioinformatics
- Digital Curation Centre Organisation offering a range of services to assist UK institutions in digital curation and data management
- Genomics England: The Research Environment
- Health Data Research Innovation Gateway Search engine/portal to discover and access UK health-related datasets, and any associated health data resources such as tools, projects, and publications
- NERC EDS (Natural Environment Research Council Environmental Data Service) providing data stewardship services for environmental data
- NHS England: Trusted Research Environment service
- NHS Research Scotland: Scotland Data Safe Haven programme
- SAIL Databank: UK Secure eResearch Platform in Wales
- UK Data Service Secure Lab providing controlled access to sensitive and confidential data
- The Safepod Network providing approved researchers with access to sensitive data
- UK Biobank large-scale biomedical database and research resource
- UK Data Archive collection of social, economic and population data
Tools and resources
Tailored to users in United Kingdom
Developed and/or deployed by institutions and organisations in United Kingdom.
Skip tool tableResource | Description | Related pages | Registry |
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DMPonline | DMPonline is a web-based tool that supports researchers to develop data management and sharing plans. It contains the latest funder templates and best practice guidelines to support users to create good quality DMPs.
DMPRoadmap
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Data Steward: research Researcher Data management plan | |
CyVerse UK | The CyVerse Data Store is a cloud-based storage space, accessible via the CyVerse Discovery Environment (DE), a virtual bioinformatics lab workbench, and developer APIs such as the AGAVE API. In the DE, users can share datasets and tools to analyse data with as many or as few people as they wish. |
Data Steward: research Researcher Documentation and metadata | |
Jisc Research data management toolkit | Guidance on the research data lifecycle that signposts resources from a wide range of organisations and websites. |
Data Steward: research Researcher Documentation and metadata | |
Agrischema | Linked data schemas for the fields of agriculture, food, agri-business, plant biology. |
Data Steward: research Researcher Documentation and metadata | |
InterMine | InterMine integrates heterogenous data sources, making it easy to query and analyse data. |
Data Steward: research Researcher Documentation and metadata |
United Kingdom contributes to
Institutions and organisations in United Kingdom are actively involved in the development of the following tools and resources.
Skip tool tableResource | Description | Related pages | Registry |
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WorkflowHub | WorkflowHub is a registry for describing, sharing and publishing scientific computational workflows. |
Data publication Data Steward: research Researcher | Tool info Standards/Databases |
FAIRDOM-SEEK | A data Management Platform for organising, sharing and publishing research datasets, models, protocols, samples, publications and other research outcomes. |
Data storage Data Steward: infrastructure NeLS Microbial biotechnology IFB Machine actionability Plant Phenomics Plant Genomics | Tool info Training |
COPO | Portal for scientists to broker more easily rich metadata alongside data to public repos. |
Documentation and metadata Researcher Plant sciences Machine actionability Plant Phenomics Plant Genomics | Tool info Standards/Databases |