Pre-publication data release

14 January 2003

The Wellcome Trust has published a report of an international meeting held in January 2003 to discuss pre-publication data release.

Prompted by requests from the large-genome sequencing scientific community, the Wellcome Trust sponsored a meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, bringing together representatives of the producers of large-genome sequence data, the users of such data, funding agencies and scientific journals.

The Wellcome Trust supports the recommendation made at the meeting for high-throughput, large-genome projects, which can be considered community resource projects. Typically these will be multicentred, multifunded and international projects such as the Human and Mouse Genome Sequencing Projects.

The Trust is pleased with the outcome of the meeting and the reaffirmation of the Bermuda Principles as regards large-genome sequencing projects.

Over the coming months, the Trust will encourage other research community groups to think about their own pre-publication data release policies and will be considering how best to support them with this.

Pre-publication data release

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