Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving

doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-9-119

Genome Biology
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Issue 9

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Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving

Andrew Smith¹^,2, Dov Greenbaum⁵, Shawn M Douglas¹, Morrow Long³ and Mark Gerstein¹^,2^,4

¹Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

²Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

³Information Technology Services, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

⁴Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

⁵University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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Genome Biology 2005, 6:119doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-9-119


Published:	30 August 2005

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies

A direct impediment to the optimal use of online databases is the increasing prevalence, severity, and toll of computer and network security incidents. Funding agencies should set up working groups that can provide essential services such as universal backup, archival storage, and mirroring of community resources, consistent with the key goal of security in academia: to preserve data and results for posterity.