Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation

  • Amber Hartman-Scholz
  • Jens Freitag
  • Christopher H C Lyal
  • Rodrigo Sara
  • Martha Lucia Cepeda
  • Ibon Cancio
  • Scarlett Sett
  • Andrew Lee Hufton
  • Yemisrach Abebaw
  • Kailash Bansal
  • Halima Benbouza
  • Hamadi Iddi Boga
  • Sylvain Brisse
  • Michael W Bruford
  • Hayley Clissold
  • Guy Cochrane
  • Jonathan A Coddington
  • Anne-Caroline Deletoille
  • Felipe Garcia-Cardona
  • Michelle Hamer
  • Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz
  • Douglas W Miano
  • David Nicholson
  • Guilherme Oliveira
  • Carlos Ospina Bravo
  • Fabian Rohden
  • Ole Seberg
  • Gernot Segelbacher
  • Yogesh Shouche
  • Alejandra Sierra
  • Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi
  • Jessica da Silva
  • Desiree M Hautea
  • Manuela da Silva
  • Mutsuaki Suzuki
  • Kassahun Tesfaye
  • Christian Keambou Tiambo
  • Krystal A Tolley
  • Rajeev Varshney
  • Maria Mercedes Zambrano
  • Jorg Overmann
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Departments

Science Policy & Internationalisation Microbial Ecology and Diversity

Abstract

Open access to sequence data is a cornerstone of biology and biodiversity research, but has created tension under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Policy decisions could compromise research and development, unless a practical multilateral solution is implemented. Ensuring international benefit-sharing from sequence data without jeopardising open sharing is a major obstacle for the Convention on Biological Diversity and other UN negotiations. Here, the authors propose a solution to address the concerns of both developing countries and life scientists.

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Hartman-Scholz A., Freitag J., Lyal C.H.C., Sara R., Cepeda M.L., Cancio I., Sett S., Hufton A.L., Abebaw Y., Bansal K., Benbouza H., Boga H.I., Brisse S., Bruford M.W., Clissold H., Cochrane G., Coddington J.A., Deletoille A.-C., Garcia-Cardona F., Hamer M., Hurtado-Ortiz R., Miano D.W., Nicholson D., Oliveira G., Bravo C.O., Rohden F., Seberg O., Segelbacher G., Shouche Y., Sierra A., Karsch-Mizrachi I., da Silva J., Hautea D.M., da Silva M., Suzuki M., Tesfaye K., Tiambo C.K., Tolley K.A., Varshney R., Zambrano M.M. and Overmann J.. Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications (2022). 10.1038/s41467-022-28594-0

Details

Date 23.02.2022
Journal Nature Communications
Issue 1
Volume 13
Pages 1086
Open Access Status Open Access (gold)
Online Ahead Of Print No

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