[Genquire-users] Re: genquire

[Brown, Michael J.]

Dr. Wilkinson,

Sorry for the delay in my response; however, I needed to do a little
research before responding to your question regarding the rules of
distribution of the TIGR data that was utilized in the Arabidopsis database
you created.  In accordance with the Acknowledgment of Data Use: NOTICE and
DISCLAIMER/LIMITATION OF LIABILITY  on TIGR's web site you are required to
acknowledge TIGR as the source of the data and are prohibited from
redistributing the TIGR data.  Please refer to the following url:
http://www.tigr.org/new/disclaimer.shtml.

I hope this response addresses your questions and concerns.  Should you have
any further questions feel free to contact me.

Regards,
Michael J. Brown
Intellectual Property Counsel &
 Technology Transfer Manager
The Institute for Genomic Research
9712 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20850

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Haas [mailto:bhaas@tigr.org]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:31 AM
To: Mark Wilkinson; mbrown@tigr.org
Cc: Danny Yoo; genquire-users@bioinformatics.org;
curator@acoma.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [Genquire-users] Re: genquire



Mark,

I don't have any specific list of rules for using the TIGR annotation
data, but I can state that the information is public data and should be
treated identically to data retrieved from other public databases such
as GenBank.  I would only forsee a problem if a for-profit institution
decided to bundle our annotation data into a product.  This would
require some form of formal agreement with TIGR.

There should be no problem whatsoever in mirroring our annotation data
thru a mysql database which is accessible via the Genquire
software...unless you wanted to sell it.

I'll forward this message to our TIGR legal expert, Michael Brown, just
to be on the safe side.  I'm sure he'll provide you with any specifics
in case I'm off base.

Best wishes,

-Brian


Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> If it helps, we should have a ~public copy of our Arabidopsis database in
a
> day or two.  It will be up for only a couple of weeks to allow the
reviewers
> of the Genqurie manuscript to evaluate the software without having to set
the
> whole thing up themselves.  I can make the URL available to anyone who
> requests it over those few weeks, but I don't want to make it "public
> knowledge", if you know what I mean...
> 
> Contact me if you want this info.
> 
> M
> 
> P.S.  Brian, what are the rules of distribution of the TIGR data?  Our
local
> Arabidopsis database is created from the TIGR dataset, and I want to make
> sure that we will not be breaking any distribution rules by making it
> available to the reviewers...  If there are strict rules, can I arrange to
> get permission, and from whom?
> 
> P.P.S.  It hit me this weekend while chatting with Lincoln that I have
> already written 95% of a DAS adaptor layer!  I'm writing a book chapter on
> Gequire at the moment, with a fairly tight deadline, so I  can't put any
> effort into it this week, but within a couple of weeks Genquire should be
> sitting happily on top of DAS also!!  Stay tuned folks :-)  Things are
really
> starting to come together quickly now!
> 
> --
> --------------------------------
> "Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
> ________________________________
> 
> Dr. Mark Wilkinson
> Bioinformatics Group
> National Research Council of Canada
> Plant Biotechnology Institute
> 110 Gymnasium Place
> Saskatoon, SK
> Canada

-- 
Brian J. Haas
Bioinformatics Engineer
The Institute for Genomic Research
email: bhaas@tigr.org