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A universal legal framework as a prerequisite for database interoperability

Nature Biotechnology volume 21, pages 979–982 (2003)Cite this article

Databases are fundamental to modern scientific research, both as archives and, via manipulation of their contents, as research tools in their own right. One obvious example is the annotation of genomes, requiring systematic downloading, reformatting, standardizing and combining of data in a unified computational framework. This process requires both repeated access to databases, and the ability to show the transformed data, repackaged in a new format, alongside the evidence—the original data sets.

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