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title: "Data Tidiness"
teaching: 20
exercises: 0
exercises: 10
questions:
- "How to collect and structure the data about your sequencing data"
objectives:
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> What kinds of data and information have you generated before you send your DNA/RNA off for sequencing?
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> > ## Solution
> > Types of files and information you have generated:
> > - spreadsheet or tabular data with the data from your experiment and whatever you were measuring for your study
> > - lab notebook notes about how you conducted those experiments
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if you process the same sample twice, you don't usually do it on the same
day, or if you do, you're aware of it and give them names like A and B.

> #### Unique identifiers
> ## Unique identifiers
> Unique identifiers are a unique name for a sample or set of sequencing data.
> They are names for that data that only exist for that data. Having these
> unique names makes them much easier to track later.
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What type of data to collect depends on your experiment and there are often guidelines from metadata standards.

> #### Metadata standards
> ## Metadata standards
> Many fields have particular ways that they structure their metadata so it's
consistent and can be used across the field.
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> ![Messy spreadsheet]((../fig/2_datasheet_example.jpg))
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> > ## Solution
> > A full set of types of issues with spreadsheet data is [here](http://www.datacarpentry.org/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson/02-common-mistakes/). Not all are present in this example. Discuss with the group what they found.
> >
> {: .solution}
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