What the recent US government shutdown has highlighted is just how much it contributes to the world's research infrastructure — with PubMed a striking example. By comparison, governments of other high-GDP countries contribute shamefully little.
The world urgently needs freely accessible, searchable, comprehensively referenced and cross-linked international repositories for the burgeoning amounts of untapped 'omics' data (lipidomics being one example). It is time for other wealthy countries to create and fund more such platforms.
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Licinio, J., Wong, ML. US shutdown should spur other nations. Nature 503, 198 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/503198d
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