U-BDS follows UAB guidelines in relation to authorship in publications. These detailed guidelines can be found here

Acknowledgements

U-BDS acknowledgment should be written as: We acknowledge support from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Biological Data Science Core, RRID:SCR_0217666.

The Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) is a key component to the acknowledgement section as it aids U-BDS to be properly cited and referenced across work the core contributes to. If you would like to find out more about RRDS please visit: https://scicrunch.org/resources

Data Policies

Any data sets submitted to us for analysis and the output of that analysis will be stored on our servers for 60 days after return of findings. It is the responsibility of the requestor to backup all files on their own storage systems.

Requestors are responsible for verifying that the datasets to be used in an analysis can legally and otherwise be shared with BDS. By requesting that BDS access, transfer, or analyze a dataset, the requestor avers that the requested activity is allowed under all IRB, DUA, NIH, UAB, and other agreements/policies applicable the data in question.

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