Data Publication Using e!Dal

e!DAL (https://edal.ipk-gatersleben.de/) is an open source software to publish and share research data in compliance to journal, funding agencies and open data policies (Arend et al. 2014 BMC Bioinformatics). Based on e!DAL the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben created the Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP) as infrastructure to comprehensively publish plant research data (Arend et al. 2016 Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation). This covers in particular cross-domain datasets that are not being published in central repositories because of its volume or unsupported data scope. The PGP repository is accepted as data repository for Nature Publishig Group, is registered in re3data.org, OpenAIRE and DataCite (assigment of DOIs) and fulfils the FAIR data principles—findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable.