Back to Bermuda: how is science best served?
The independent announcements of two bovine genome assemblies from the same data suggest it is time to revisit the spirit of the Bermuda and Fort Lauderdale agreements and determine the policies for data release and distribution that will best serve both the producers of the data and the users.
Church
Deanna M
DM
NCBI/NLM/NIH 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hillier
LaDeana W
LW
D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA