Thu Apr 14, 2016 12:07 am by AdeebR
I also strongly support making published cytometry data publicly available, but I think that for this practice to be widely adopted by investigators the process needs to be as streamlined and pain free as possible (or made mandatory by funders or publishers - e.g., Cytometry, which requires that the data be be uploaded and made available to reviewers)
I like FlowRepository as a way of making cytometry data publicly available since it takes fairly little effort and the interface is pretty user friendly (particularly if you're used to Cytobank).
Immport unfortunately has some pretty involved and laborious uploading requirements and while it's true that this probably means that datasets are ultimately well annotated I think this is likely a major barrier for many investigators unless they're obligated to do so due to NIH funding requirements.
For those of us who use Cytobank, it would be easiest to simply designate experiments as "public" on Cytobank and this has the advantage of also allowing an easy share of the associated analyses and visualization. One of the problems there is that for those of us using an institutional version of Cytobank that this only makes the data public on the institutional server and not to the general public Cytobank.
Adeeb
Adeeb Rahman
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC