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Byline: Kim Thomas

Nature makes genome chain officially free

Kim Thomas

Nature Publishing Group has introduced a Creative Commons licence for articles in scientific journal Nature that publish the primary sequence of an organism's genome.

Nature already makes reports on genome sequences freely available for use by other researchers. The new licence formalises that arrangement, according to David Hoole, head of content licensing for Nature.

"Now Creative Commons licences have become more established we thought it was an appropriate licence to apply to something without access control," Hoole said. "It's a tidying up of the situation."

The licence being adopted will let researchers freely share and adapt the work, provided the original work is attributed and not used for commercial ...

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