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Toward unrestricted use of public genomic data

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  1. Max Planck Inst. for Marine Microbiology, Bremen (Germany)
  2. Univ. of Mauritius, Reduit (Mauritius)
  3. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  4. European Molecular Biology Lab. (EMBL), Heidelberg (Germany)
  5. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  6. European Molecular Biology Lab. (EMBL), Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  7. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  8. CosmosID, Rockville, MD (United States)
  9. King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Thuwal (Saudi Arabia); Univ. of Milan (Italy)
  10. Hospital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris (France); Hong Kong Univ., Pokfulam (Hong Kong)
  11. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid (Spain)
  12. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  13. Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (United States)
  14. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
  15. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  16. Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia)
  17. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  18. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  19. Yonsei Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
  20. Newcastle Univ. (United Kingdom)
  21. Washington State Univ., Richmond, WA (United States); Xiamen Univ. (China)
  22. Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States)
  23. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  24. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY (United States)
  25. Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig (Germany)
  26. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  27. Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessalonica (Greece)
  28. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  29. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  30. Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States). Gladstone Inst.
  31. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Columbia)
  32. New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA (United States)
  33. IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles (Spain)
  34. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  35. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  36. Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  37. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
  38. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  39. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Center for Microbial Ecology, East Lancing, MI (United States)
  40. Univ. of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  41. Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR (United States)
  42. Jackson Lab. for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT (United States)
  43. Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)
  44. Univ. of Lausanne (Switzerland)
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Despite some notable progress in data sharing policies and practices, restrictions are still often placed on the open and unconditional use of various genomic data after they have received official approval for release to the public domain or to public databases. These restrictions, which often conflict with the terms and conditions of the funding bodies who supported the release of those data for the benefit of the scientific community and society, are perpetuated by the lack of clear guiding rules for data usage. Existing guidelines for data released to the public domain recognize but fail to resolve tensions between the importance of free and unconditional use of these data and the “right” of the data producers to the first publication. This self-contradiction has resulted in a loophole that allows different interpretations and a continuous debate between data producers and data users on the use of public data. We argue that the publicly available data should be treated as open data, a shared resource with unrestricted use for analysis, interpretation, and publication.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1493980
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1501820
OSTI ID: 1581322
OSTI ID: 1499273
Journal Information:
Science, Journal Name: Science Journal Issue: 6425 Vol. 363; ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAASCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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