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Use of Large-Scale Sequence Data by the ENCODE Consortium
The NHGRI is committed to following the recommendations from the meeting on "Sharing Data from Large-scale Biological Research Projects" held in Fort Lauderdale in January 2003 on data release for community resource projects. These recommendations delineate a tripartite sharing of responsibility among funding agencies, resource producers, and resource users. The main purpose of this policy is to encourage data release by community resource producers prior to publication by recognizing each group's interests.
The NHGRI has identified the ENCODE Project as a community resource project and, therefore, requires participants, as resource producers, to release data as soon as they are verified (see ENCODE Data Release Policy). While the ENCODE participants often function as data producers, sometimes they also function as data users. The comparative genomics component of the Project incorporates the regions syntenic to the human targets in unpublished sequences from different genome sequencing efforts into the Project's analyses. As these analyses address only the 1 percent of the genome represented by the ENCODE targets, the ENCODE Project does not believe that these analyses will interfere with the ability of the resource producers to analyze and publish on the assembly and global analysis of these genome sequences. However, in the spirit of the Fort Lauderdale recommendations, the ENCODE Project has contacted the individual sequencing centers producing the data and notified them of the intentions of the ENCODE project. In publications using these data, the data will be treated as unpublished and their contribution will be appropriately cited and acknowledged.
Last Updated: August 25, 2008
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