Therefore, tools for data entry and public repositories for long-term storage will be needed.

Today genetic data is sorted and compared to tens of thousands of genomes available in public repositories.

Finally, some suggestions are made for both immediate and future storage of MS data in public repositories.

Despite the recent focus on metadata, the quality of metadata available in public repositories continues to be extremely poor.

The GitHub Archive Program is working with partners to figure out a way to store all public repositories for a whopping 10,000 years.