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This Science Commons project looks at the restrictions on life science databases: Dulong de Rosnay, M. (2008). Check Your Data Freedom: A Taxonomy to Assess Life Science Database Openness . Nature Precedings DOI: 10.1038/npre.2008.2083.1 Abstract: Molecular biology data are subject to terms of use that vary widely between databases and curating institutions. This research presents a taxonomy of contractual and technical restrictions applicable to databases in life science. It builds upon research led by Science Commons demonstrating why open data and the freedom to integrate facilitate innovation and how this openness can be achieved. The taxonomy describes technical and legal restrictions applicable to life science databases, and its metadata have been used to assess terms of use of databases hosted by Life Science Resource Name (LSRN) Schema. While a few public domain policies are standardized, most terms of use are not harmonized, difficult to understand and impose controls that pre...

LNCS 5109: Data Integration in the Life Sciences (5th International Workshop, DILS 2008, Evry, France, June 25-27, 2008). Some interesting papers: Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine: Success Stories and Challenging Issues BioWarehouse: Relational Integration of Eleven Bioinformatics Databases and Formats Analyzing the Evolution of Life Science Ontologies and Mappings Automatic Methods for Integrating Biomedical Data Sources in a Mediator-Based System VisGenome and Ensembl: Usability of Integrated Genome Maps Bio2RDF : A Semantic Web Atlas of Post Genomic Knowledge about Human and Mouse Chemical Knowledge for the Semantic Web Combining One-Class Classification Models Based on Diverse Biological Data for Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions