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Nature 446, 354 (22 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446354b; Published online 21 March 2007

Agencies join forces to share data

Declan Butler

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US to create a universal database of all its research results.

The US government is considering a massive plan to store almost all scientific data generated by federal agencies in publicly accessible digital repositories. The aim is for the kind of data access and sharing currently enjoyed by genome researchers via GenBank, or astronomers via the National Virtual Observatory, but for the whole of US science.

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