Genetic databases as the key to global benefit-sharing: New guidelines published in “Nature Scientific Data”
An international research team led by the Science Policy and Internationalisation Department at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures has now published a groundbreaking practical guide in the renowned journal Scientific Data. The article, entitled “How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?”, sets out in concrete terms how biological databases can provide technical and organisational support for the global UN mechanism for the equitable sharing of benefits derived from digital sequence information, without restricting the free exchange of open scientific data.
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