The Need for Long-term Proteomic Data Storage Summary

The lack of a reliable and secure repository for raw data is a major problem facing science. While there are various repositories for ‘processed’ information these have substantial limitations and thus only serve a portion of the need (and the community), and importantly cannot store ‘raw’ data. Therefore there is an essential need for such an entity. This can be accomplished by providing long term fiscal support for creating an over-arching structure, actually capable of capturing not only raw data but also various forms of processed information that would provide a central storehouse.