Reminder that all technical systems are sociotechnical systems. Act accordingly.

This is not a technology problem; it is a failure to treat data as a durable scientific asset. The bottleneck is specific: data are not being captured in a form that makes them reliably reusable at the point of submission. As a result, the field repeatedly pays to regenerate, reconstruct, or reinterpret data that should have been usable from the outset. A solution therefore needs to intervene upstream, where data quality is currently lost.

From Open Data to Disposable Data: Rebuilding Reuse in Functional Genomics ↗