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. 2018 Mar 22;6:ELIXIR-2051. Originally published 2017 Nov 27. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12989.2

Figure 2. The Infrastructure Model on the level of the funding agency.

Figure 2.

On the left, the current model, in which databases compete cyclically for grants against research or resource projects. On the right the Infrastructure Model, in which the funding agencies distribute research grants only to research projects. A percentage of each grant is retained and assigned to a budget for data stewardship, and subsequently redistributed among the relevant infrastructures, including Data Management Plans providers, deposition databases and knowledgebases.