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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.
- Relational database organizing the data from your experiment.
- Data dictionaries for all collected data.
- Lab notebook notes about how you conducted those experiments.
- Spreadsheet or tabular data about the samples you sent off for sequencing. Sequencing centers often have a particular format they need with the name of the sample, DNA concentration and other information.
- Lab notebook notes about how you prepared the DNA/RNA for sequencing and what type of sequencing you're doing, e.g. paired end Illumina HiSeq.
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- Metadata is key for you and others to be able to work with your data.
- Tabular data needs to be structured to be able to work with it effectively.
- Consider using a structured relational database instead of spreadsheet for a more thoroughly documented data structure.

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