An interview with four authors of the FANTOM5 collection entitled “Increasing usability of FANTOM5 data” was published in the Research Data at Springer Nature website.

An interview article “Increasing usability of FANTOM 5 data” in the Research Data at Springer Nature website was published. This article describes the background of how to publish a paper of RefEx which enables users to easily search and view gene expression data, the explanation of the FANTOM 5 project that is also included in RefEx and the Scientific Data journal. Also, in this article, the importance of reusing public data is mentioned.