Personal data
For our policy on personal data protection refer to the University of Dundee’s Information Governance policies https://www.dundee.ac.uk/information-governance/dataprotection/.
Next generation sequencing data (MiSeq, NovaSeq 6000, GridION)
It is the user’s responsibility to provide adequate storage of next generation sequencing (NGS) data. The TCGA will retain a copy of the data for a minimum of three months after informing the user of the completion of sequencing. Data will be stored on the University of Dundee’s high performance computing cluster (HPC), no data will be stored long term in Basespace.
The storage arrangements for NGS data generated as part of a collaboration will be specified in the collaboration agreement.
The TCGA does not store any NGS data generated by the NHS for diagnostic/treatment purposes.
iScan
It is the user’s responsibility to provide adequate storage of microarray data from the Illumina iScan instrument which has been generated as part of a service. The TCGA will retain a copy of the data for a minimum of three months after informing the user of the completion of the service.
The storage arrangements for data generated as part of a collaboration will be specified in the collaboration agreement.
The storage of microarray data generated as part of a project not administered by the TCGA is the responsibility of the project’s PI.
Real-time PCR
User generated real-time PCR data is the responsibility of the user.
Project specific analysis data
Data from small projects carried out by the TCGA (e.g. nucleic acid extraction, genotyping) will be transferred to the user and it is the user’s responsibility to keep a copy of the data. However the TCGA will retain a copy of the data for a minimum of 1 year. All bioinformatics analysis and/or processed data along with the report will be transferred to the user once it is completed through secure data transfer method and store it on the HPC (University of Dundee’s estorage location) for a year or until the requested time from the user.