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Nature 418, 357 (25 July 2002) | doi:10.1038/418357a

Biologists angered by database access fee

Alison Abbott

Geneticists are up in arms over the introduction of a subscription fee for access to the protein databases owned and maintained by Incyte Genomics, a private company based in Palo Alto, California.The databases, which contain information about protein structure and function in important model organisms studied by biologists, had been free to academics.