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. 2009 Sep 10;461(7261):168-70.
doi: 10.1038/461168a.

Prepublication data sharing

Toronto International Data Release Workshop Authors; Ewan Birney, Thomas J Hudson, Eric D Green, Chris Gunter, Sean Eddy, Jane Rogers, Jennifer R Harris, S Dusko Ehrlich, Rolf Apweiler, Christopher P Austin, Lisa Berglund, Martin Bobrow, Chas Bountra, Anthony J Brookes, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Nigel P Carter, Rex L Chisholm, Jorge L Contreras, Robert M Cooke, William L Crosby, Ken Dewar, Richard Durbin, Stephanie O M Dyke, Joseph R Ecker, Khaled El Emam, Lars Feuk, Stacey B Gabriel, John Gallacher, William M Gelbart, Antoni Granell, Francisco Guarner, Tim Hubbard, Scott A Jackson, Jennifer L Jennings, Yann Joly, Steven M Jones, Jane Kaye, Karen L Kennedy, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Nikos C Kyrpides, William W Lowrance, Jingchu Luo, John J MacKay, Luis Martín-Rivera, W Richard McCombie, John D McPherson, Linda Miller, Webb Miller, Don Moerman, Vincent Mooser, Cynthia C Morton, James M Ostell, B F Francis Ouellette, Julian Parkhill, Parminder S Raina, Christopher Rawlings, Steven E Scherer, Stephen W Scherer, Paul N Schofield, Christoph W Sensen, Victoria C Stodden, Michael R Sussman, Toshihiro Tanaka, Janet Thornton, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, David Valle, Eero I Vuorio, Neil M Walker, Susan Wallace, George Weinstock, William B Whitman, Kim C Worley, Cathy Wu, Jiayan Wu, Jun Yu

Prepublication data sharing

Toronto International Data Release Workshop Authors et al. Nature. .

Abstract

Rapid release of prepublication data has served the field of genomics well. Attendees at a workshop in Toronto recommend extending the practice to other biological data sets.

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