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Guidelines on use of data in publications

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute aims to provide rapid access to data sets of use to the research community (please see our Data Sharing Policy). However, there has been considerable investment in acquiring these data, and we request that you follow these guidelines when using preliminary data obtained from this web site.

Users of data from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute should not publish or otherwise disseminate the information without appropriate acknowledgement. The appropriate format is as follows:

"These data were provided by the xxx group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and can be obtained from yyy."

(You can find the necessary information within the comments in the submission record or in the sections below)

Accession numbers should be quoted when available.

If you have any questions regarding the data or their use in publications, please contact the appropriate address from the following table (or the appropriate group leader). We strongly encourage you to get in touch, so that we can let you know of any related data and inform you about progress, and we can ensure that published information relating to our data is properly reflected in our databases.

Project Database

Project	Contact
Human Genome Project	humquery@sanger.ac.uk
Cancer Genome Project	cosmic@sanger.ac.uk
Zebrafish	zfish-help@sanger.ac.uk
Pig	pig-help@sanger.ac.uk
C.elegans	wormquery@sanger.ac.uk
Microorganisms	parkhill@sanger.ac.uk

Microbial and Protozoan Unpublished Sequence Data

This sequencing centre plans on publishing the completed and annotated sequences in a peer-reviewed journal as soon as possible. Permission of the principal investigator should be obtained before publishing solely bioinformatic analyses (e.g. metabolic reconstruction, synteny) of unpublished sequence/open reading frames/genes on a chromosome- or genome-wide scale.

Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC) Data

The appropriate format for acknowledgement is as follows:

"The mutation data was obtained from the Sanger Institute Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer web site, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic Bamford et al (2004) The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database and website. Br J Cancer, 91,355-358."

Data are made available before scientific publication with the understanding that we intend to publish the initial large-scale analysis of the dataset. This will include a summary detailing the data that have been curated and key features of the data. Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice. Please ensure that you use the latest available version of the data as we are continually adding information to COSMIC.

Zebrafish and Pig sequence data

Please note that some BAC and PAC clones were sequenced early at the request of researchers who provided us with the clones. If you are using these sequences for your analysis, the people who isolated and provided the clones should be properly acknowledged. You can find the necessary information within the comments in the EMBL record.

All sequence data are made available before scientific publication with the understanding that the groups involved in generating the data intend to publish the initial large-scale analyses of the dataset. This will include a summary detailing the data that have been generated and key features of the genome identified from genomic assembly and clone mapping/sequencing. Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice.

Vertebrate mapping data

If a map figure is reproduced in a publication, the figure legend should include an explicit statement concerning the source of the information.

Mapping data should be regarded as preliminary and so subject to regular update and change. It is recommended, therefore, that users carry out appropriate confirmatory checks.

DISCLAIMER

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute provides these data in good faith, but makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for any purpose for which the data are used.