Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources

Christina Chandras1, Thomas Weaver, Michael Zouberakis

  • 1Institute of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, 34 Fleming Street, 16672 Athens, Greece, MRC Mary Lyon Centre, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK, Experimental Mouse Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research & University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Inhoffenstrabe 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany, EMBL-Monterotondo Outstation, Via Ramarini 32, 00015 Monterotondo-Scalo (RM), Italy, Bioinformatics Group, MRC Harwell, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY, UK.

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