In case of disagreement, the allele can be re-sequenced by the Management Team. Since the timely identification of new strains is important for epidemiological purposes, we encourage the early submission of data to the web site. Therefore some of the data will be unpublished. The Management Team will make all reasonable efforts to protect unpublished data on behalf of the submitters according to the guidelines in the points below. For the purposes of this document we define published data as those which have been published in a journal or book OR are available on Genbank.
Unpublished data belong to the original submitters.
The objective is that the website will contain basic and advanced facilities for querying the databases and data analysis tools for drawing trees, graphs and maps etc and statistical analysis. The results of these queries and analyses may be used and published by the users on the condition that permission is obtained to use unpublished data. However, the website and the Wellcome Trust must be acknowledged in all publications. The user may also save copies of the subset of the databases obtained as a result these queries on their local computer but may not publish it on a web server without prior consent of the webmaster. Data submitters should be aware that their data may be used in this way.