[Coral-List] Porites Genome Clarifications

[craigdowns]

Colleagues,

There have been some questions raised by some of you about the
availability of the Porities sequence data to the scientific community.
We are writing to assure you that this data will be freely available to
everyone in the community.

If approved by NHGRI, the coral genome will be sequenced by one of the
NHGRI
Centers, which we anticipate will be the new center at TIGR called the
Joint Technology
Center (final funding decisions will be announced before Sept 30).  All
data from 
all NHGRI projects at TIGR's Joint Technology Center will be released
with absolutely no restrictions.  There will be no costs to obtain the
data, and there will be nothing getting in the way of anyone who wants
to download it.  You won't have to click on a license, you won't have to
identify yourself, and you won't have to agree to any restrictive
policies.  You can redistribute the data, publish new findings based on
it, or even sell it if you want!

In our grant application to NHGRI, we emphasized our commitment to free,
unrestricted
release of all genome data AND all analyses of that data done by the
Joint Technology Center, if we are funded.  We will produce genome
assemblies and automated analyses very rapidly and we will release those
immediately to the community.

We cannot emphasize how important it is for us to make it clear to the
coral research community what our intentions are on this data release
issue.  This will be a public resource, publicly funded and intended to
benefit the entire scientific community.  No one will have special
access, not even the center generating the data.

Please feel free to contact us if you have additional questions or
concerns or would like to discuss this matter further.

Gary K. Ostrander               Steven Salzberg
Craig Downs
gofish at jhu.edu                   salzberg at tigr.com
craigdowns at envirtue.com

   


Craig A. Downs
President
EnVirtue Biotechnologies, Inc.
35 W. Piccadilly Street
Winchester, Virginia 22601   U.S.A.

Phone: 540-723-0597
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