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The BRIF workshop was funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework project 'Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure' (BBMRI), grant agreement 212111. The BRIF research also received funds from FP7 collaborative projects GEN2PHEN (Genotype-to-Phenotype Databases: A Holistic Solution), grant agreement 200754 and BioSHaRE-EU (Biobank Standardisation and Harmonisation for Research Excellence in the European Union) and grant agreement 261433. In addition to thanking all the BRIF workshop participants for their active contribution, we wish to thank E. Bravo, A. Garcia-Montero, M. Morente, C. Neylon, C. Schröder, V. Tate, S. Wallace and M. Yuille for having provided input in the global debate through the BRIF online forum and for discussion.

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the BRIF workshop group. The role of a bioresource research impact factor as an incentive to share human bioresources. Nat Genet 43, 503–504 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.831

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