What is BioStudies?
The mission of BioStudies is to provide access to all the data outputs of a life sciences study from a single place, by organising links to data in other databases at EMBL-EBI or elsewhere, as well as hosting data and metadata that do not fit anywhere else. The database accepts submissions via an online tool, or in a simple tab-delimited format. BioStudies provides rich mechanisms for defining and using metadata guidelines specific for a particular data source such as a project or a community, and organises datasets in collections.
Citing BioStudies
- Sarkans U, Gostev M, Athar A, Behrangi E, Melnichuk O, Ali A, Minguet J, Rada JC, Snow C, Tikhonov A, Brazma A, McEntyre J.; The BioStudies database—one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study, Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan;46(D1) D1266-D1270. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx965. PMID: 29069414; PMCID: PMC5753238.
Citing a particular dataset in BioStudies
- Please include your dataset accession number and the URL to the BioStudies home page, e.g., “Supporting data are available in the BioStudies database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies) under accession number S-BSST12345.”
The team behind BioStudies
BioStudies is developed and run by the BioStudies team.
The ArrayExpress collection and Annotare are maintained by the Gene Expression team.