id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-9138 Ganley, Emma PLOS data policy: Catalyst for a better research process 2014-06-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2399 113 57 To adapt a well-known quote from Theo- dosius Dobzhansky13 to PLOS’s stance on open data—nothing in science makes sense except in light of data. Granted, researchers in genomics and structural biology have been sharing research data for decades.4,5 In recent years, an initiative from the ecol- ogy and evolutionary biology community to adopt a joint data archiving policy for their publications spurred the development of the Dryad Digital cache/crln-9138.pdf txt/crln-9138.txt