[Genome] Citing the UCSC genome database/data in a web application.

Crabtree, Jonathan crabtree at jcvi.org
Wed Nov 14 12:00:27 PST 2007


Hi-

Our (non-profit) organization is working on a web-accessible resource in which we plan to use the data from the hg18 cytoBandIdeo table to:

1. Provide an ideogram-based entry page for our site.
2. Enable searches by cytogenetic band.

>From reading the UCSC documentation and FAQs I gather that we are free to do this as long as we make the source of the data clear by citing the
following references:

Karolchik, D., Baertsch, R., Diekhans, M., Furey, T.S., Hinrichs, A., Lu, Y.T., Roskin, K.M., Schwartz, M., Sugnet, C.W., Thomas, D.J., Weber,
R.J., Haussler, D. and Kent, W.J. The UCSC Genome Browser Database. Nucl. Acids Res 31(1), 51-54 (2003).  
(as per http://genome.ucsc.edu/cite.html)

Furey, T.S., and Haussler, D. Integration of the cytogenetic map with the draft human genome sequence, Hum. Mol. Gen., 12(9), 1037-1044 (2003).
(as per http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?c=chr1&g=cytoBand)

Assuming this is correct, my question is whether you have any specific guidelines on _how_ to include these references in a web-based
application, or any resource that is not a standard publication per se?

We are planning to include a general "credits" or "about" page that would list all of the references, including those for the UCSC data.
Would this be acceptable?  Thanks in advance,

Jonathan


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