Editor's Summary
31 August 2006
A Problem Shared
The GISAID consortium, launched this week, aims to improve the prospects of avoiding or effectively coping with a flu pandemic in the wake of the spread of H5N1 avian influenza virus. The Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data would foster international sharing of avian influenza isolates and data, by means of an organization similar to that developed for the successful HapMap project.
Correspondence: A global initiative on sharing avian flu data
Peter Bogner, Ilaria Capua, David J. Lipman, Nancy J. Cox and others
doi:10.1038/442981a
Correspondence: Offsets could mitigate damage to biodiversity
Art Blundell
doi:10.1038/442981b
Correspondence: Funders should allow for cost of publication
Hernán A. Burbano
doi:10.1038/442981c