Data Sharing Policy
microPublication journals work directly with community supporting knowledgebases during the submission process. By submitting research for publication in *microPublication* journals, authors agree to adhere to nomenclature and experimental standards set by their community database. In addition, authors agree to have relevant data sent, stored, and curated in these databases and made available to the public. Where a specific community database is not available, we will work with the authors to ensure their data is stored and available in an appropriate repository. Further, upon publication, authors agree to make materials, data, code, and associated protocols promptly available when requested by readers.
Collaborating Knowledgebases
| Authoritative Data Repository | Article Datafocus | Copyright and licensing |
|---|---|---|
| WormBase | Caenorhabditis research | WormBase is copyright © 1999-2017 California Institute of Technology, European Bioinformatics Institute, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Washington University at St. Louis, and The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.Permission to use the information contained in this database was given by the researchers/institutes who contributed or published the information. Users of the database are solely responsible for compliance with any copyright restrictions, including those applying to the author abstracts. Documents from this server are provided “AS-IS” without any warranty, expressed, or implied. |
| Xenbase | Xenopus research | The copyright of all Xenbase content, including, but not limited to, images, movies, video tutorials, graphs, diagrams and text, belongs to Xenbase or with the individuals who submitted the data or the publisher and/or authors of the work.Images on Xenbase ® from copyrighted publications are used with permission of the publisher and/or copyright holder. Xenbase users must independently seek permission to reuse copyrighted images in their own work. |
| Flybase | Drosophila research | Copyright ©1993-2006 by The Genetics Society of America. All Rights Reserved. FlyBase comprises a series of electronic documents and information processing software, the reference copy of which currently resides at the Internet address ftp.flybase.org/flybase/. This publication may be copied for non-commercial, scientific uses by individuals or organizations (including for-profit organizations). FlyBase is freely distributed to the scientific community on the understanding that it will not be used for commercial gain by any organization. Any commercial use of this publication, or any parts thereof, is expressly prohibited without permission in writing from the FlyBase consortium. Certain portions of FlyBase are copyrighted separately. This notice does not invalidate any prior copyright pertaining to portions of FlyBase. Warranty FlyBase and the Genetics Society of America make no warranty of any kind with respect to the subject matter included herein. FlyBase and the Genetics Society of America specifically disclaim all warranties, expressed, implied or otherwise, including without limitation, all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.The information contained in this publication is subject to change without notice. By viewing or using this information the user agrees that in no event shall FlyBase or the Genetics Society of America be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this information. Disclaimer: Information in FlyBase is curated from the scientific literature, including unrefereed sources such as abstracts, reviews, and personal communications. With the partial exception of map data, statements of fact are not vetted by FlyBase. Users should remember that published information is not always correct information and are encouraged to use FlyBase as a guide to the literature rather than as a substitute for it. |
| SGD | Saccharomyces research | Saccharomyces Genome Database is copyright © 1993-2019 Stanford University. The information is provided under the CC BY 4.0 license and is free for reuse and redistribution but requiring attribution. SGD is provided “AS-IS” without any warranty, expressed, or implied. |
| TAIR | Arabidopsis research | The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available from TAIR may include the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community (collectively, the “Data”). Gene product function data is obtained from published research literature, community data submissions and computational prediction methods. Phoenix Bioinformatics Corporation (“Phoenix”) owns the database and compilations which make up the TAIR materials (“Materials”) under property rights and applicable copyright laws. Phoenix manages the data and Materials and provides them in a number of machine-readable and human-readable formats on its web site, ftp site, or through its web services (“API”). Collectively, the Data, Materials, and API will be referred to as the “Service.” Please refer to our Terms of Service for detailed information about data use and licenses for academic, not for profit and commercial users. |
| ZFIN | Zebrafish research | WARRANTY AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER, OWNERSHIP, AND LIMITS ON USE |
| PomBase | Schizosaccharomyces research | All data curated by PomBase, including data from Canto community curation, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY; see the Creative Commons site for a summary and the full license). Datasets hosted in the genome browser and front-page Research Spotlight images are used with permission of the generating researchers. Specific copyright and licensing terms may apply; consult the relevant publications (listed on the Data Sources page) for details. Canto is is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0; see the Canto License page for more information. Also see the Citing PomBase page. |
| MaizeGDB | Maize research | MaizeGDB is a public database, and all data curated by MaizeGDB are used with permission of the generating researchers and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY; see the Creative Commons site for a summary and the full license), unless otherwise specified. |
| dictyBase | Dictyostelium research | The Dicty Community Resource (2002-2022; dictyBase and the Dicty Stock Center) is a database whose goal is to enable resource sharing among members of the Dictyostelium research community. All information, materials and the underlying code of DCR infrastructure are freely available to the broad research and education community via the DCR hub and our GitHub repositories. For the purposes of resource sharing, DCR adheres and subscribes to FAIR principles for being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. To implement these resource sharing principles, DCR has applied various features of FAIR using a variety of technologies, for example, the DCR is a publicly available resource, accessible for all worldwide (F and A) and DCR records are linked to multiple databases such as Gene Ontology, ENA, UniProt, PubMed (I). The data sharing policy of DCR also adheres to FAIR principles for scientific data management. DCR infrastructure is powered by containerized software that runs in a cloud environment. Our software is released under the open source BSD 2-Clause license. The source code of all DCR software is open source and publicly available on GitHub. |
| Sol Genomics | Solanaceae research | Data and information released from the Sol Genomics Network (SGN) are provided on an "AS IS" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Availability of this data and information does not constitute scientific publication. Data and/or information may contain errors or be incomplete. Full information here BSD 2-Clause licensehttps://solgenomics.net/legal.pl. |
| Mouse Genome informatics | Mouse research | MGI Warranty disclaimer and Copyright information can be accessed here. |
| RGD | Rat research | The Rat Genome Database is copyright © 2000-2024 Medical College of Wisconsin and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0). RGD tools and software are made available under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0). For more information, see the RGD Legal Disclaimer and Citing RGD pages. |
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