Under the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, Australian researchers are now expected to make their research data available for sharing. One way to do that is to deposit the data in a long term repository. This international list of data repositories provides some of the available services for researchers to use.

Following the recent deadly E. coli outbreaks in Europe, researchers have released the first complete map of the genome and plasmids. The data set is being released under a public domain licence and has a DOI to make it easier to cite.