This document discusses the BioSharing registry, which connects standards, databases, and policies in the life sciences. BioSharing provides a searchable portal for standards and databases, helping researchers choose the right options for publishing and funding requirements. It monitors the development of standards and their adoption. The registry links three sections on standards, databases, and policies to help answer common questions about which options to use. Users can search, filter, and refine results or create customized collections. BioSharing aims to support better informed decisions across the life sciences research community.

1. How$BioSharing fits$into$the$publication$workflow
Mapping$standards$and$databases$in$the$life$sciences
Peter$McQuilton,$PhD

2. OUTLINE
• What is BioSharing?
• How can we help?
• Making a Collection, tailored to you or your users

4. A$web$based,$curated and$searchable.portal.where$biological
standards and$databases are$registered,$linked and$discoverable.
We$monitor$the$development$and$evolution$of$standards,$their$use$in$
databases$and$the$adoption$of$both$in$data$policies.$

5. Our mission: To help people make the
right choice
Researchers,$developers and$
curators lack$support$and$guidance$on$
which$format$or$checklist$standards$to$
use,$or$database$to$deposit$their$data.$
Journal1publishers,$funders and$
librarians do$not$have$enough$
information$to$make$informed$decisions$
on$which$content$standards$or$
database$to$recommended$in$policies,$
or$fund$or$implement.

6. Mapping Standards and Databases in
the Life Sciences
“Which standard should I use for this data, considering
I’d like to publish in X journal?
“Are we using the most up-to-date version of this standard?”
“What database/repository is recommended for my data/organism?”
I’m funded by X, which standards should I use for my data and in which
database should I deposit it?

7. Three interlinked registries

8. Linking between registries
STANDARD DATABASE

9. Search, filter, refine

10. Search, filter, refine
Advanced field-by-field search
Filter by:
• type of standard
• Biological domain (e.g. proteomics, anatomy)
• Accessibility
• Species
• Funder agency
… and more!
Refine by:
• Publication
• Maintainer
• Current or deprecated

11. Add, claim and link
Why claim?

12. Create your own Collection

13. Create your own Collection

21. Mapping Standards and Databases in
the Life Sciences
“Which standard should I use for this data, considering
I’d like to publish in X journal?
“Are we using the most up-to-date version of this standard?”
“What database/repository is recommended for my data/organism?”
I’m funded by X, which standards should I use for my data and in which
database should I deposit it?

22. The BioSharing Registry: connecting
data policies, standards and
databases in the life sciences
The products of the WG:
• principles for linking information about databases, content standards
and journal and funder policies in the life sciences
• these will be implemented in an existing registry (BioSharing)

23. The team

24. BioSharing @RDA
Thursday 24th September:
• Session 6 – 11:30 – Jean-Baptiste Say Amphitheater
Joint meeting of IG Metadata,
WG Metadata Standards Catalogs & WG BioSharing Registry
Friday 25th September:
• Session 8 – 11:30 – Robert Faure Amphitheater
Joint meeting of IG ELIXIR Bridging Force & WG BioSharing
Registry: Life Sciences and Sensitive Data
• Session 9 – 14:00 – Robert Faure Amphitheater
Joint meeting of IG Domain Repositories, IG Agriculture Data
Interest Group (IGAD), WG BioSharing Registry, IG RDA/CODATA Mate
rials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability & WG Wheat Data
Interoperability …
Join the BioSharing Registry WG
@biosharing @drosophilic @SusannaASansone