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Nature 422, 801 (24 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422801a

Open Innovation Challenges

Unrestricted free access works and must continue

Steven Salzberg1, Ewan Birney2, Sean Eddy3 & Owen White1

  1. The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
  2. European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
  3. Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, 4566 Scott Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA

Correspondence to: Steven Salzberg1 Email: salzberg@tigr.org

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Bioinformatics researchers shouldn't need coercion to act responsibly and collegially.

The policy on release of unpublished data from large genome centres has generated considerable discussion and some confusion, as your Editorial "Sacrifice for the greater good?" makes plain (Nature 421, 875; 2003).