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If your grant involves the generation of morphological data matrices and associated images/or 2D or 3D images that you would like to deposit as part of your publication, then MorphoBank can work with you to add text and budget into the proposal to cover the costs of integrating large projects into the resource for future data sharing and storageto your grant proposal.  Such contributions from the community help to sustain MorphoBank as an important scientific resource.

Curation

Almost all data entered into the PBDB is derived from References. Thus, the suggested funding model for data deposition is based on the number of References you estimate you will need to enter into the PBDB. For a project with less than 500 references, we suggest including a flat fee of $5000. For those projects above 500 references, we suggest the following formula: total amount requested = $4000 * years of project + $2 * number of references. For example, for a project that estimates entering 1000 references over the course of a 3 year project would result in: ($4000 * 3) + ($2 * 1000) = $12000 + $2000 =$14,000. You should characterize this as a fee for your data repository in your Budget Justification.

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