The public sequence resource aims to provide a generic and useful @@ -277,8 +279,8 @@ sequence comparison and protein prediction.
The public sequence resource is an initiative by bioinformatics and @@ -298,8 +300,8 @@ wrangling experts. Thank you everyone!
The short version is that we use state-of-the-art practices in @@ -318,8 +320,8 @@ public resources, including GISAID.
-Funny question. There is no good reason not to upload your data here! +Funny question. There are only good reasons to upload your data here +and make it available to the widest audience possible. +
+ +In fact, you can upload your data here as well as to other resources. It is your data after all. No one can prevent you from -uploading your data to multiple resources. We recommend uploading to -EBI and NCBI resources. Use our data conversion tools to only enter -data once and make the process smooth. +uploading your data to multiple resources. +
+ ++We recommend uploading to EBI and NCBI resources using our data +conversion tools. It means you only enter data once and make the +process smooth. You can also use our command line data uploader +for bulk uploads!
On uploading a sequence with metadata it will automatically be @@ -373,8 +384,8 @@ using workflows from the High Performance Open Biology Lab defined
All data is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 attribution license @@ -384,8 +395,8 @@ data and store it for further processing.
Absolutely. Free software allows for fully reproducible pipelines. You @@ -394,8 +405,8 @@ can take our workflows and data and run it elsewhere!
We are preparing raw sequence data pipelines (fastq and BAM). The @@ -410,8 +421,8 @@ assembly variations into consideration. This is all work in progress.
See the http://covid19.genenetwork.org/blog! @@ -419,8 +430,8 @@ See the http://covid19.genenetwork
See the http://covid19.genenetwork.org/blog! @@ -428,8 +439,8 @@ See the http://covid19.genenetwork
Go to our source code repositories, fork/clone the repository, change @@ -439,10 +450,27 @@ many PRs we already merged.
+Restrictive data licenses are hampering data sharing and reproducible +research. CC0 is the preferred license because it gives researchers +the most freedom. Since we provide metadata there is no reason for +others not to honour your work. We also provide CC-BY as an option +because we know people like the attribution clause. +
+ ++In all honesty: we prefer both data and software to be free. +
+A public sequence resource is about public data. Metadata can refer to private data. You can use your own (anonymous) identifiers. We also plan to combine identifiers with clinical data stored securely at @@ -451,9 +479,18 @@ plan to combine identifiers with clinical data stored securely at
+We use a gitter channel you can join. +
+The main sponsors are listed in the footer. In addition to the time generously donated by many contributors we also acknowledge Amazon AWS @@ -463,7 +500,7 @@ for donating COVID-19 related compute time.