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

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.

Resource	Description	Related pages
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	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.

Resource	Description	Related pages	Registry
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

Contributors