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The demise of public data on the web?

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Data rich but cash poor, many free biological databases are on the verge of financial collapse.

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We thank Jeffrey Tate, Larry Wackett, William Hoffman, Pam Schomaker, Keith Tipton, Sinéad Boyce, Toni Kazic, Teresa Attwood, Stuart Speedie, and Jack Franklin for helpful discussions. This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Award DBI-9753282.

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Ellis, L., Kalumbi, D. The demise of public data on the web?. Nat Biotechnol 16, 1323–1324 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/4296

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