Hi,
That's a good question, in the sense that I am interested in data access and I don't have the answer.
I tried to figure out from a naive point of view how to access the data. I thought there were available through the community portal, but there are not there. There are available exclusively on the premium portal, that requires a license or a free trial.
At the end of the
portals information page, it is clearly stated that those 3 portals (Community, Premium, and Enterprise) are hosted on separate clouds. To be noticed, the
community portal is still holding data but is no more present from the product comparison sheet of Cytobank nor as an option when login. The [url=support.cytobank.org/hc/en-us/articles/205271138]procedure to share data across different portals[/url] offers solutions for exporting the experiment as a ACS file or to licensed user. No real solution for an open access IMHO.
Interestingly, Cytobank has a
clear procedure for referring deposited data, but I am not sure whether recent articles release their data in that way. There are only 6 users that released experiments on the community portal in 2020. This is very questionable in respect to
data retention. If I understand correctly, data deposited using an Enterprise account will be accessible forever. But data deposited as Premium account will be deleted 90 days:
However, if you are registered on Premium Cytobank, your data will be deleted 90 days after your subscription ends. You will receive multiple warning emails, reminding you to renew your subscription if you desire to keep your data and/or continue analysis on Cytobank.
I don't feel this as a good news. BUT, hopefully:
Any data that are public either on Community or Premium Cytobank will be protected and not deleted regardless of the account status. This is a great way to protect publication-associated datasets while sharing them with the scientific community.
I hope Cytobank's users know how to set their data
public.
I didn't get more information from this journey in Cytobank's pages, but it helped to have a clearer view.
I ended up with asking directly to the support:
Dear support,
My question is about the free access (no login) to data deposited in Cytobank by researchers that use Cytobank as repository for shared science
The question is related to
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2280Those data are on the Premium portal. Is it possible to move those data to a portal to ensure open access? Is the community portal dedicated for such a goal?
Best regards,
Samuel
I will update when I get an answer.