Fig. 2.

Data sharing potential of next generation sequencing (NGS) information. Independent research initiatives generate large volumes of NGS data that are deposited in public archives. Once deposited along with their metadata, these raw reads may go on to serve any number of future roles that supplement and facilitate subsequent research efforts by independent groups. If properly curated and annotated, these NGS data may be reused in any number of productive ways resulting in an overall enrichment of genomic information from which future research studies can benefit