Tier-based standards for FAIR sequence data and metadata sharing in microbiome research
Lina Kim, Anton Lavrinienko, Zuzana Sebechlebská, Sven Stoltenberg, Nicholas A. Bokulich
This paper proposes tiered badges and an evaluation tool to assess data sharing compliance in microbiome research and finds that nearly half of publications fail to meet minimum sequence data availability standards.
Nucleic Acids Research · Jul 28, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology