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PhD student must use Git (aka research data management)</b></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size:12.727272033691406px; line-height:18px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Last Thursday and Friday the </span><a href="http://www.surf.nl/diensten-en-producten/surfacademy/index.html" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">SURFAcademy</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.surf.nl/agenda/2014/04/masterclass-research-data-management-in-nederland/index.html" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Masterclass
Research Data Management in Nederland</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> took place, and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Chris_Evelo" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Chris
Evelo</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and I presented some biology-world use cases. He focused more on the larger
projects (e.g. </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.1054" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ISA-TAB</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="https://github.com/PhenotypeFoundation/GSCF" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">GSCF</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">,
and </span><a href="http://esciencecenter.nl/nieuws/629-jointly-designing-a-data-fairport/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">FAIRPort</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">)
while I exposed my day to day data management. My day to day work habit looks more or less like this.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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0</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is to think about how to do it, but the answer is pretty simple: use a version
control system, like Git. Because it tracks every bit of what you do, allows for easy back ups, and makes it easy to continue working on a different machine in case you forget to take your laptop adapter home :)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:21.559999465942383px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 1</b>: keep an electronic lab notebook (e.g. a version control system; read <a href="http://newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">Git from
the Bottom Up</a>)</li><li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 2</b>: carefully select data you build on (can you indeed share it with the rest of your arguments in your next paper?)</li><li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 3</b>: do you research and store everything</li><li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 4</b>: integrate data repositories in your data analyses, e.g. <a href="https://peerj.com/preprints/185/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">rrdf</a> and <a href="http://yihui.name/knitr/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">knitr</a></li><li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 5</b>: if you like scientific dissemination, collaboration, and progressing science, share your data in public repository, like <a href="http://figshare.com/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">FigShare</a>, <a href="http://www.datadryad.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">Data
Dryad</a>, <a href="https://www.dataverse.nl/dvn/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">Dutch Dataverse</a>, <a href="http://data.3tu.nl/repository/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">3TU.Datacentrum</a>, <a href="https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/home" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">DANS</a>,
etc. (that's a lot of D-D-D-Data...) or in a domain specific database, like <a href="http://wikpathways.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">WikiPathways</a>, <a href="http://www.xmetdb.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">XMetDb</a>,
or <a href="http://drugmet.rilspace.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">DrugMet</a>. And data copyright and licenses and particularly, whatever you chose, be explicit about it and don't let others guess (wrong).</li><li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 6</b>: think ahead of reuse, and suitable formats. Consider semantic web and linked data.</li><li style="padding:0px; margin:0px 0px 0.25em"><b>Day 7</b>: did you get impact? Think <a href="http://www.datacite.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">DataCite</a>, <a href="http://impactstory.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">ImpactStory</a>,
and <a href="http://www.altmetric.com/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">Altmetric</a> (and <a href="http://orcid.org/" style="text-decoration:none; color:rgb(136,136,136)">ORCID</a> and DOI along the way).</li></ul>
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