More data, please!

Witwer (1 ) observes in his review of miRNA studies that “data submission was reported at publication for 40% of all articles.” Sadly, the problem of poor data reporting is neither new nor restricted to miRNA data. Poor access to data motivated the 2001 MIAME (minimum information about a microarray experiment) standards in the first place (2 ). In 2008, Ochsner et al. (3 ) reviewed microarray studies from 2007 across 20 journals and found “the rate of deposition of datasets was 50%.” Related concerns motivated the 2011 editorial by Baggerly and Coombes (4 ).