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Supplementary data need to be kept in public repositories

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The reality of the genomics age is that there are many very large data sets that are most usefully saved and manipulated in electronic form. Many journals add online ‘supplementary material’ to articles as a service to authors wishing to publish volumes of such data that cannot be accommodated within the body of an article.

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  2. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA, Maine

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  3. Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    David J. States

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Santos, C., Blake, J. & States, D. Supplementary data need to be kept in public repositories. Nature 438, 738 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438738a

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