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The protein sequences in the Allermatch tm database have been obtained, eventually after processing (e.g. removal of pro- and signal- peptides), from publicly available databases, including SwissProt, GenPept (NCBI), and PIR. It is therefore important that users of the Allermatch tm website respect the copyrights pertaining to the sequences. The following statements have been copied from the websites of the source databases:

SwissProt

Swiss-Prot is copyright. It is produced through a collaboration between the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL Outstation - the European Bioinformatics Institute. There are no restrictions on its use by non-profit institutions as long as its content is in no way modified. Usage by and for commercial entities requires a license agreement. For information about the licensing scheme see: http://www.isb-sib.ch/announce/ or send an email to license@isb-sib.ch.

GenPept (NCBI) Copyright

Most of the information available from this site is within the public domain. Public domain information on the NCBI Web pages may be freely downloaded and reproduced. However, it is requested that in any subsequent use of this work, NCBI be given appropriate acknowledgment.

This site also contains some material, such as abstracts, full text of journal articles and books, and the OMIM database, that is copyright protected. For such material, the submitting authors or other copyright holders retain rights for reproduction or redistribution. All persons reproducing or redistributing this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by the copyright holder. Such protected material, however, may be used under the terms of "fair use" as defined in the copyright laws, which generally permit use for non-commercial educational purposes such as teaching, research, criticism, and news reporting.

Molecular Database Availability
Databases of molecular data on the NCBI Web site include such examples as nucleotide sequences (GenBank), protein sequences, macromolecular structures, molecular variation, gene expression, and mapping data. They are designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific community to sources of current and comprehensive information. Therefore, NCBI itself places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the data contained therein. However, some submitters of the original data may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted. NCBI is not in a position to assess the validity of such claims and, therefore, cannot provide comment or unrestricted permission concerning the use, copying, or distribution of the information contained in the molecular databases.

PIR

Using & Citing PIR databases The PIR databases are public domain databases designed to provide widely disseminated and easily accessible protein sequence information to the scientific community. Thus, PIR databases may be freely used, copied, or redistributed, provided that the Protein Information Resource is acknowledged as the source.

In citing PIR please refer to:
Cathy H. Wu, Lai-Su L. Yeh, Hongzhan Huang, Leslie Arminski, Jorge Castro-Alvear, Yongxing Chen, Zhang-Zhi Hu, Robert S. Ledley, Panagiotis Kourtesis, Baris E. Suzek, C. R. Vinayaka, Jian Zhang, and Winona C. Barker. The Protein Information Resource. Nucleic Acids Research, 31: 345-347, 2003.

Such an acknowledgment from a large number of scientists is crucial for the continued public funding of PIR to maintain the PIR databases in the public domain. If you have cited PIR in your publication, please send a reprint to pirmail@georgetown.edu or to:

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