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Correspondence

Nature 417, 788 (20 June 2002) | doi:10.1038/417788a

Science's policy on access to private data

Donald Kennedy1

  1. Editor-in-Chief, Science, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC 20005, USA.

In their thoughtful and welcome Commentary on data access "The times they are a-changin'" (Nature 417, 589–590; 2002), Ari Patrinos and Dan Drell make two statements about Science's publication policy that require correction.With respect to the arrangement that allowed Celera Genomics to provide its sequence data through its own website, Patrinos and Drell say that the company limited free access to one million base pairs per day.