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Science depends on good data. Data are central to our understanding of the natural world, yet most data in ecology and evolution are lost to science-except perhaps in summary form-very quickly after they are collected. ... Yet these data, even after the main results for which they were collected are published, are invaluable to science, for meta‐analysis, new uses, and quality control.

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK, a key player in the Human Genome Project, has often led the way in this area, and in the latest issue of Genome Medicine, Tim Hubbard and Stephanie Dyke from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute explain  how they developed and implemented the Institute's policy.