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The statement
At a pivotal moment in time for the world’s biodata infrastructure, individuals who acknowledge the importance of a global effort towards sustaining biodata resources have added their signature to this letter. Join them by adding yours.
Life science data resources are important for broad and diverse stakeholders, including researchers, funders, scientists and policy makers. Through this open letter, members of these stakeholder groups highlight the importance of data resources and note their fragility and uncertain future. They commit to participating, where they can, in the global effort to address these issues and encourage further stakeholders similarly to engage.
Our concern
Many biodata resources are struggling to secure the necessary funding to enable their long-term sustainability. The current globally fragmented funding situation jeopardises their ability to scale up to support new data types and ever-increasing volumes of data, to maintain high-quality data standards, to ensure data integrity, and to effectively serve the global scientific community
Advances in life science are threatened if critical data cannot be curated, stored, maintained, integrated and made openly searchable and retrievable. Current funding arrangements mean that permanent open access to these data, by the global research community, is by no means guaranteed and we risk the loss of economic opportunity as a further consequence.
Our declaration
We recognise the fragility of the current funding system and the critical importance of sustaining the world’s biodata resources for the good of humankind. We support the coming together, under the auspices of the Global Biodata Coalition, of the many diverse stakeholders that will be required to work in a concerted way to address these challenges.
With our collective voice and cooperative efforts we will be a powerful force for positive change in support of the global biodata infrastructure.
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