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Myth-busting the provider-user relationship for digital sequence information

BACKGROUND: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) formally recognized the sovereign rights of nations over their biological diversity. Implicit within the treaty is the idea that mega-biodiverse countries will provide genetic resources and grant access to them and scientists in...

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Autores principales: Scholz, Amber Hartman, Lange, Matthias, Habekost, Pia, Oldham, Paul, Cancio, Ibon, Cochrane, Guy, Freitag, Jens
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8716360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34966927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab085
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author Scholz, Amber Hartman
Lange, Matthias
Habekost, Pia
Oldham, Paul
Cancio, Ibon
Cochrane, Guy
Freitag, Jens
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description BACKGROUND: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) formally recognized the sovereign rights of nations over their biological diversity. Implicit within the treaty is the idea that mega-biodiverse countries will provide genetic resources and grant access to them and scientists in high-income countries will use these resources and share back benefits. However, little research has been conducted on how this framework is reflected in real-life scientific practice. RESULT: Currently, parties to the CBD are debating whether digital sequence information (DSI) should be regulated under a new benefit-sharing framework. At this critical time point in the upcoming international negotiations, we test the fundamental hypothesis of provision and use of DSI by looking at the global patterns of access and use in scientific publications. CONCLUSION: Our data reject the provider-user relationship and suggest a far more complex information flow for DSI. Therefore, any new policy decisions on DSI should be aware of the high level of use of DSI across low- and middle-income countries and seek to preserve open access to this crucial common good.
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spelling pubmed-87163602022-01-05 Myth-busting the provider-user relationship for digital sequence information Scholz, Amber Hartman Lange, Matthias Habekost, Pia Oldham, Paul Cancio, Ibon Cochrane, Guy Freitag, Jens Gigascience Research BACKGROUND: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) formally recognized the sovereign rights of nations over their biological diversity. Implicit within the treaty is the idea that mega-biodiverse countries will provide genetic resources and grant access to them and scientists in high-income countries will use these resources and share back benefits. However, little research has been conducted on how this framework is reflected in real-life scientific practice. RESULT: Currently, parties to the CBD are debating whether digital sequence information (DSI) should be regulated under a new benefit-sharing framework. At this critical time point in the upcoming international negotiations, we test the fundamental hypothesis of provision and use of DSI by looking at the global patterns of access and use in scientific publications. CONCLUSION: Our data reject the provider-user relationship and suggest a far more complex information flow for DSI. Therefore, any new policy decisions on DSI should be aware of the high level of use of DSI across low- and middle-income countries and seek to preserve open access to this crucial common good. Oxford University Press 2021-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8716360/ /pubmed/34966927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab085 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press GigaScience. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8716360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34966927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab085
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