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The role of a bioresource research impact factor as an incentive to share human bioresources

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Acknowledgements

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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  1. Inserm, UMR1027, Epidemiology and Analyses in Public Health, Toulouse, France

    Anne Cambon-Thomsen & Laurence Mabile

  2. Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, UMR 1027, Toulouse, France

    Anne Cambon-Thomsen & Laurence Mabile

  3. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Gudmundur A Thorisson

  4. Inserm, UMR1027, Epidemiology and Analyses in Public Health, Toulouse, France

    Sandrine Andrieu, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Laurence Mabile, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag & Mogens Thomsen

  5. Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, UMR 1027, Toulouse, France

    Sandrine Andrieu, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Laurence Mabile, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag & Mogens Thomsen

  6. Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

    Gabrielle Bertier

  7. Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Martin Boeckhout

  8. Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Jane Carpenter

  9. Inserm, Public Health Institute, Paris, France

    Georges Dagher

  10. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Raymond Dalgleish & Gudmundur A Thorisson

  11. P3G, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Mylène Deschênes

  12. 3C-R, Toulouse, France

    Jeanne Hélène di Donato

  13. Laboratorio Diagnosi Pre-Postnatale Malattie Metaboliche, Istituto G. Gaslini, G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy

    Mirella Filocamo

  14. Inserm U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Villejuif, France

    Marcel Goldberg, Francine Kauffmann & Marie Zins

  15. Versailles-Saint Quentin University, UMRS 1018, Versailles, France

    Marcel Goldberg & Marie Zins

  16. European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB), Aix en Provence, France

    Robert Hewitt

  17. Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology & Human Biobank, Pasteur Hospital, University of Nice Sophia, Nice, France

    Paul Hofman

  18. Paris Sud University, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France

    Francine Kauffmann

  19. Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Liis Leitsalu & Andres Metspalu

  20. Laboratorio ImmunoBiología Molecular, Spanish HIV HGM BioBank, Madrid, Spain

    Irene Lomba

  21. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

    Bela Melegh

  22. Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Andres Metspalu

  23. Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

    Andres Metspalu

  24. Biobusiness Consulting, Inc., Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

    Lisa Miranda

  25. Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy

    Federica Napolitani

  26. Department of Health Statistics & Informatics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Mikkel Z Oestergaard

  27. National Institute for Cancer Research, Genoa, Italy

    Barbara Parodi

  28. International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

    Markus Pasterk

  29. Fundació IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

    Acacia Reiche

  30. Thomson Reuters, Toulouse, France

    Guillaume Rivalle

  31. Claudius Regaud Institute, Toulouse, France

    Philippe Rochaix

  32. Biomed Central, London, UK

    Guillaume Susbielle

  33. Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Genome Database of Latvian Population [LGDB], Riga, Latvia

    Linda Tarasova

  34. McGill University, Centre of Genomics and Policy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Ma'n H Zawati

Consortia

the BRIF workshop group

  • Anne Cambon-Thomsen
  • , Gudmundur A Thorisson
  • , Named collaborators
  • , Sandrine Andrieu
  • , Gabrielle Bertier
  • , Martin Boeckhout
  • , Anne Cambon-Thomsen
  • , Jane Carpenter
  • , Georges Dagher
  • , Raymond Dalgleish
  • , Mylène Deschênes
  • , Jeanne Hélène di Donato
  • , Mirella Filocamo
  • , Marcel Goldberg
  • , Robert Hewitt
  • , Paul Hofman
  • , Francine Kauffmann
  • , Liis Leitsalu
  • , Irene Lomba
  • , Laurence Mabile
  • , Bela Melegh
  • , Andres Metspalu
  • , Lisa Miranda
  • , Federica Napolitani
  • , Mikkel Z Oestergaard
  • , Barbara Parodi
  • , Markus Pasterk
  • , Acacia Reiche
  • , Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag
  • , Guillaume Rivalle
  • , Philippe Rochaix
  • , Guillaume Susbielle
  • , Linda Tarasova
  • , Mogens Thomsen
  • , Gudmundur A Thorisson
  • , Ma'n H Zawati
  • , Marie Zins
  •  & Laurence Mabile

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Correspondence to Anne Cambon-Thomsen.

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