The Ger­man Fed­er­a­tion for Bio­lo­gical Data (GFBio) and the Ger­man Net­work for Bioin­form­at­ics In­fra­struc­ture (de.NBI) are for the first time pro­mot­ing a joint sum­mer school to sup­port re­search­ers in man­aging their sci­entific data. 18 young sci­ent­ists met at the Braun­sch­weig Centre for Sys­tems Bio­logy.

"Rid­ing the Data Life Cycle" is the title of the sum­mer school and refers to the OECD re­com­mend­a­tion that data from pub­licly fun­ded re­search must be pub­licly…