RBEFdata: documenting data exchange and analysis for a collaborative data management platform.

ABSTRACT: We are witnessing a growing gap separating primary research data from derived data products presented as knowledge in publications. Although journals today more often require the underlying data products used to derive the results as a prerequisite for a publication, the important link to the primary data is lost. However, documenting the postprocessing steps of data linking, the primary data with derived data products has the potential to increase the accuracy and the reproducibility of scientific findings significantly. Here, we introduce the rBEFdata R package as companion to the collaborative data management platform BEFdata. The R package provides programmatic access to features of the platform. It allows to search for data and integrates the search with external thesauri to improve t

SUBMITTER: Pfaff CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4541993 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature