TY - JOUR T1 - SnoVault and encodeD: A novel object-based storage system and applications to ENCODE metadata JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/044578 SP - 044578 AU - Laurence D. Rowe AU - Nikhil R. Podduturi AU - David Glick AU - Ulugbek Baymuradov AU - Venkat S. Malladi AU - Esther T. Chan AU - Jean M. Davidson AU - Idan Gabdank AU - Aditi Narayanan AU - Kathrina Onate AU - Marcus Ho AU - Brian T. Lee AU - Stuart Miyasato AU - Timothy Dreszer AU - Cricket A. Sloan AU - J. Seth Strattan AU - Forrest Tanaka AU - W. James Kent AU - J. Michael Cherry AU - Eurie L. Hong AU - Benjamin C. Hitz Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/03/19/044578.abstract N2 - The Encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) project is an ongoing collaborative effort to create a comprehensive catalog of functional elements. The current database exceeds 5500 experiments across more than 350 cell lines and tissues using a wide array of experimental techniques to study the chromatin structure, regulatory and transcriptional landscape of the H. sapiens and M. musculus genomes. All ENCODE experimental data, metadata, and associated computational analyses are submitted to the ENCODE Data Coordination Center (DCC) for validation, tracking, storage, and distribution to community resources and the scientific community. As the volume of data increases, the identification and organization of experimental details becomes increasingly intricate and demands careful curation. The ENCODE DCC has created a general purpose software system, known as SnoVault, that supports metadata and file submission, a database used for metadata storage, web pages for displaying the metadata and a robust API for querying the metadata. The software is fully open-source, code and installation instructions can be found at: http://github.com/ENCODE-DCC/snovault [need to register this ASAP]. The core database engine, SnoVault (which is completely independent of ENCODE, genomic data, or bioinformatic data) has been released as a separate Python package. (Malladi et al. 2015 Sloan et al. 2016) ER -