Table 4.

Summary of recommended best practices for data reproducibility and usability.

• Publication of step-by-step methodology

∘ Publication in protocol journal or protocol repository, for example, Protocols.io or Nature Protocol Exchange

∘ Permanent citable identifier

• Use of consensus pipeline or publication of all custom scripts and code used in data analysis, for example, on GitHub

• Preservation and publication of local computing environment using containers

• Data sharing of raw files in public access repositories with needed metadata

∘ Notation of protocol identifier in data’s provenance

• Linked data annotation per Table 3 recommendations