⟳ Репост от Marc Suchard
I want to re-emphasize how critically important it will be to not repeat our mistake from the COVID-19 pandemic of letting an opaque organization with highly questionable governance be the main source for critical, publicly funded, genomic data for H5N1. www.science.org/content/arti...
The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic databaseGISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its futurewww.science.orgKristian G. AndersenCan we *please* ensure that *all* H5N1 sequences generated using public funds are shared using *open* databases? GISAID is not one such database, NCBI is. If sequences are shared using the former, please ensure it is also available on the latter (and NCBI should be default).