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Published online 30 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030428-10
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Database free for all
Human Genome Organisation calls for open-access sequence repositories.
Databases of genetic information could be run like libraries or radio stations to keep them available to all, researchers suggested this week.
The ethics committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) released a statement calling for all genetic information in databases to be freely accessible in perpetuity.
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