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Nature 435, 1028 (23 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351028c; Published online 22 June 2005

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Sale of public databases puts biological data at risk

A. Jamie Cuticchia1 & Gregg W. Silk1

  1. Bioinformatics, Research Triangle Institute, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA

For many years, biology journals have expected data to be submitted to public databases before publication. For example, requiring a GDB accession number (or D-segment identifier) before publication of human gene mapping results enhanced the growth of GenBank.

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