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Opinion

Back to Bermuda: how is science best served?

Deanna M Church1 email and LaDeana W Hillier2

NCBI/NLM/NIH 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:105doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-4-105

Published: 24 April 2009

Subject areas: Genome studies, Bioinformatics, Model organisms

Abstract

The independent announcements of two bovine genome assemblies from the same data suggest it is time to revisit the spirit of the Bermuda and Fort Lauderdale agreements and determine the policies for data release and distribution that will best serve both the producers of the data and the users.


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