Sharing Paleodata

As promised, today I begin a series on repositories used for paleontological raw data. I will focusing on repositories to which data is submitted before publication, so that mention of it can appear in the manuscript. If you didn’t read the comments section of my last post, Mark Uhen and colleagues published an article about this exact topic a few months ago.

I didn’t know about this article when I began planning this series, but now that I’ve read it, I think my series will complement that piece nicely. As luck would have it, I wound up gathering a lot of the same types of information about each database. To avoid immediate redundancy,An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. I’m starting with a repository Uhen et al. did not report on, Dryad.

The statements about Dryad in the “Nitty Gritty” section were checked for accuracy by Laura Wendell, Dryad Project Manager. Thanks! My impressions are my own. Also, I haven’t submitted any of my data to Dryad yet, but I have downloaded data from it.

There are several advantages to using Dryad. First, so many people are using it, for so many different journals. Being part of a large data clearinghouse makes your data more discoverable. Also, Dryad is big on quality control; every file is checked for usability and sensitive information before posting. You don’t have to worry about viruses or bad files. All my downloads have worked smoothly regardless of filetype. Additionally, they take care of making the data go live when the paper is published online, and you can append the file if you missed something or made an error the first time,An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. while keeping the original file too.

Dryad hosts an impressive range of filetypes. Nexus and Excel files are among the most common, but images and other analysis files are also present. Because it’s so versatile, Dryad can be used to complement other open data. For example, you can only accession sequences and annotations in GenBank, not alignments or nexus files. GenBank gets more traffic than Dryad, so the sequences should still go there, but the analysis files can go up on Dryad. It takes so much effort to get a Structure file working sometimes; why limit its use to yourself? Another thing to consider: though GenBank numbers are cited by users down the road, the original papers that produce aren’t always. When Dryad files are cited, both the dataset and the original paper tend to appear in the references section. You can boost your citations this way.

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We’re on a set in Wilmington, North Carolina. It’s actually a fairly sizable backlot housing several productions on vast sound stages. Iron Man 3 is shooting 50 years away, a mural of “Dawson’s Creek” adorns one of the main buildings. Lots of films have set up here to take advantage of the state’s tax incentives and The Conjuring, which is being put together on a fraction of the budget of some of these tentpoles, is no exception.

While the production means are frugal when compared to most other studio films, it’s still roughly 7 times more expensive than Wan’s prior outing, Insidious. But he’s clearly in his element, calm relaxed and jovial as he monitors Taylor’s progress with that book of matches. Someone asks how this film compares with Insidious and Wan is quick to point out its differences. “It’s not as quirky as ‘Insidious.’ ‘Insidious’ is independent. It’s like the ‘Clerks’ of horror films, you know? It’s supernatural, but it’s kind of in that vein. It embraces its strangeness, and that’s what we were going for.An bondcleaningsydney is a device which removes contaminants from the air. This definitely isn’t in that world, but I think this lives in a much more realistic world.”

This is definitely clear from our surroundings (and from having seen the film over a year later), if there’s anything in Insidious that The Conjuring evokes, it’s the first act.An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. We’re about as far from “The Further” as you can get. Wan elaborates, “this is definitely a bit more serious… just the nature of what this film is, and the fact that it’s based on people’s stories, I want to honor that as much as I possibly can and ground it in reality as much as I possibly could. And also, it’s a period film as well, and I want to stay true to all of that.”
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