Science (Magazine)/Celera, 2000

File — Box: FC-50, Folder: 24

Identifier: 7

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Scope and Contents

Documents regarding collaborations between genome centers, NHGRI, and Celera regarding a special issue publication in Science magazine. This includes a memo from Eric Lander to Barbara Jasny, Katrina Kelner, Floyd Bloom, and Donald Kennedy regarding Restrictions on Use of Information. Eric Lander was trying to decide whether an author publishing an article in Science magazine may require that readers execute a contractual license agreement before the information reported in the paper. He had to ask this question due to the chance that Celera may want to implement a restriction on data reported in a paper about the human genome sequence. Celera had just submitted a Human Genome Manuscript to Science for publication in December of 2000, according to the press releases. Documents also include a letter to Don Kennedy of Science Magazine from the International Sequencing Consortium warning him about the consequences that could come from adopting a policy that allows authors to withhold some of the paper's key results from a portion of the scientific community. They created this letter out of concern that Science would accept a paper from Celera without requiring that the data be made public. Don Kennedy turned to Francis Collins to see that Science Magazine stopped getting slander and threats sent to them.

Dates

Creation: 2000

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