Philosophy

A brief introduction to best practices in data management.

Citation #

“Someone unfamiliar with your project should be able to look at your computer files and understand in detail what you did and why.”

– A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects - William Stafford Noble (Article →)

Overview #

In this section, we will discuss:

• Best practices for data storage & organisation.
• Rules and conventions for naming files.
• Typical components of genomics data analysis projects.
• Records metadata and traceability.
• Backups and archives.
• Data transfers to and from remote computers.

With a particular focus on genomics data sets and pipelines.

Prerequisites #

Refer to the section Files and directories for essential knowledge and commands to manage files and directories.