Sustaining the Data and Bioresource Commons

Paul N. Schofield; Janan Eppig; Eva Huala; Martin Hrabe de Angelis; Mark Harvey; Duncan Davidson; Tom Weaver; Steve Brown; Damian Smedley; Nadia Rosenthal; Klaus Schughart; Vassilis Aidinis; Glauco Tocchini-Valentini; John M. Hancock

doi:10.1126/science.1191506

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Sustaining the Data and Bioresource Commons

Paul N. Schofield1,2,*,
Janan Eppig2,
Eva Huala3,
Martin Hrabe de Angelis4,
Mark Harvey5,
Duncan Davidson6,
Tom Weaver7,
Steve Brown8,
Damian Smedley9,
Nadia Rosenthal10,
Klaus Schughart11,
Vassilis Aidinis12,
Glauco Tocchini-Valentini13,
John M. Hancock8

¹Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK.
²The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.
³Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
⁴Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, D-85764, Munich, Germany.
⁵Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.
⁶Medical Research Council (MRC), Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK.
⁷MRC Mary Lyon Centre, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK.
⁸MRC Harwell, Mammalian Genetics Unit, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK.
⁹European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK.
¹⁰European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo, I-00015, Rome, Italy.
¹¹Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, and University of Veterinary Medicine, Braunschweig, D-38124, Germany.
¹²Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, GR-16672, Vari, Athens, Greece.
¹³Istituto di Biologia Cellulare, CNR, I-00015 Monterotondo Scalo (Rome), Italy.

↵*Author for correspondence. E-mail: ps{at}mole.bio.cam.ac.uk

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Science 29 Oct 2010:
Vol. 330, Issue 6004, pp. 592-593
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191506

Paul N. Schofield

1Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK.

2The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.

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For correspondence: ps@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk

Janan Eppig

2The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.

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Eva Huala

3Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

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Martin Hrabe de Angelis

4Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, D-85764, Munich, Germany.

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Mark Harvey

5Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.

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Duncan Davidson

6Medical Research Council (MRC), Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK.

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Tom Weaver

7MRC Mary Lyon Centre, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK.

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Steve Brown

8MRC Harwell, Mammalian Genetics Unit, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK.

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Damian Smedley

9European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK.

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Nadia Rosenthal

10European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo, I-00015, Rome, Italy.

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Klaus Schughart

11Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, and University of Veterinary Medicine, Braunschweig, D-38124, Germany.

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Vassilis Aidinis

12Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, GR-16672, Vari, Athens, Greece.

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Glauco Tocchini-Valentini

13Istituto di Biologia Cellulare, CNR, I-00015 Monterotondo Scalo (Rome), Italy.

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John M. Hancock

8MRC Harwell, Mammalian Genetics Unit, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK.

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Development of powerful, high-throughput technologies, together with globalization of scientific research, presents the biomedical research community with unprecedented challenges for the management, archiving, and distribution of data and bioresources (1). We need a social contract between funding agencies and the scientific community to accommodate “bottom-up” integration and “top-down” financing of databases and biorepositories on an international scale.

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