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

[Donna Karolchik]

hi Jonathan,

Your citations sound fine. It should be sufficient to list them on 
your credits or about page. I also recommend that you indicate the 
genome assembly (hg18) that the cytoBandIdeo table came from 
somewhere on your resource, as this information may be important 
to your users.

-Donna
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Donna Karolchik
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crabtree, Jonathan" <crabtree at jcvi.org>
To: <genome at soe.ucsc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:00 PM
Subject: [Genome] Citing the UCSC genome database/data in a web 
application.


>
> 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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