Consent insufficient for data release—Response

Journal Article · 24 January 2019 · Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax7509 · OSTI ID:1515649

Amann, Rudolf I. ^[1]; Baichoo, Shakuntala ^[2]; Blencowe, Benjamin J. ^[3]; Bork, Peer ^[4]; Borodovsky, Mark ^[5]; Brooksbank, Cath ^[6]; Chain, Patrick S. G. ^[7]; Colwell, Rita R. ^[8]; Daffonchio, Daniele G. ^[9]; Danchin, Antoine ^[10]; de Lorenzo, Victor ^[11]; Dorrestein, Pieter C. ^[12]; Finn, Robert D. ^[6]; Fraser, Claire M. ^[13]; Gilbert, Jack A. ^[14]; Hallam, Steven J. ^[15]; Hugenholtz, Philip; Ioannidis, John P. A. ^[16]; Jansson, Janet K. ^[17]; Kim, Jihyun F. ^[18] ; Klenk, Hans-Peter ^[19]; Klotz, Martin G. ^[20]; Knight, Rob ^[12]; Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T. ^[5]; Kyrpides, Nikos C. ^[21]; Mason, Christopher E. ^[22]; McHardy, Alice C. ^[23]; Meyer, Folker ^[24]; Ouzounis, Christos A. ^[25]; Patrinos, Aristides A. N. ^[26]; Podar, Mircea  ^[27]; Pollard, Katherine S. ^[28]; Ravel, Jacques ^[13]; Muñoz, Alejandro Reyes ^[29]; Roberts, Richard J. ^[30]; Rosselló-Móra, Ramon ^[31]; Sansone, Susanna-Assunta ^[32]; Schloss, Patrick D. ^[33]; Schriml, Lynn M. ^[13]; Setubal, João C. ^[34]; Sorek, Rotem ^[35]; Stevens, Rick L. ^[36]; Tiedje, James M. ^[37]; Turjanski, Adrian ^[38]; Tyson, Gene W.; Ussery, David W. ^[39]; Weinstock, George M. ^[40]; White, Owen ^[13]; Whitman, William B. ^[41]; Xenarios, Ioannis ^[42]

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1. Max Planck Inst. for Marine Microbiology, Bremen (Germany)
2. Univ.of Mauritius (UoM), Réduit, Moka (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.- European Bioinformatics Inst. (EMBL-EBI), 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 (KAUST), Thuwal (Saudi Arabia); Univ. of Milan, 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. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
17. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
18. Yonsei Univ., Seoul (Korea)
19. Newcastle Univ., Newcastle Upon Tyne (United Kingdom)
20. Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States); Xiamen Univ., Xiamen (China)
21. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
22. Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY (United States)
23. Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig (Germany)
24. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
25. Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessalonica (Greece)
26. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
27. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
28. Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States)
29. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
30. New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA (United States)
31. Univ. of the Balearic Islands, Esporlas (Spain)
32. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
33. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
34. Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)
35. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
36. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
37. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Center for Microbial Ecology, East Lansing, MI (United States)
38. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
39. Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR (United States)
40. Jackson Lab. for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT (United States)
41. Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)
42. Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland)

Nicol et al. make discerning comments on issues related to data sharing and ethics, regulations, and imbalance of power. We broadly share their concerns, and we did indeed mention some of them briefly in our Policy Forum. Our discussion pertained to all types of data, many or most of which do not include any personal information or do not involve individuals or humans in any way.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1515649
• Journal Information: Science, Journal Name: Science Journal Issue: 6439 Vol. 364; ISSN 0036-8075
• Publisher: AAASCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English