StrainInfo.net Integrating the Microbiological Commons Developing Information Commons for Science in Europe CODATA-Science Commons, The Academy Palace, Brussels, 15 th september 2006 Peter Dawyndt Tom Dedeurwaerdere WFCC
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Focus on integration
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specimen knuckle sequence knuckle literature knuckle taxonomy knuckle Divide-and-conquer strategies
specimen knuckle sequence knuckle literature knuckle taxonomy knuckle StrainInfo.net bioportal scope
WFCC
Biodiversity hotspots
T. Gibson (971) W.W. Ford (13) original isolate GUID: new isolate GUID: NCTC 2599 GUID: ATCC GUID: Gibson 971 GUID: Ford 13 GUID: NCIMB 9373 first BRC deposit NCIMB 9373 NCTC 2599 NRRL B-3711 ATCC strain number equivalence relation strain deposit history relation strain number resolution (disambiguation) BRC resolution (online catalogues) isolate entities culture entities new isolate Registration Authority Accession form Accession form Accession form Accession form end user GUID: NRRL B-3711 Domain-specific regulatory bodies
Product Development Genetic screening Local users communities Ecosystems that produce diversity The science commons in the bio-economy Social legitimacy : Build trust and new beliefs as a basis for cooperation between the actors Economic efficiency : Documenting the flow of resources through the entire innovation chain
Institutional design : two tiered system Licensing negotiation Copyleft license Collective management organisation : ex ante negotiation of the contractual template Third party Other open science users Commercial license Commercial firm Proprietary R&D Key Data Tom Dedeurwaerdere, “The Institutional Economics of Sharing Biological Information”, International Social Science Journal, forthcoming, fall 2006.“The Institutional Economics of Sharing Biological Information”
Reflexive Governance : organising the feedback of the actors on the institutional design OriginBorder authority or national institutions BRC / source End users Country of origin 1 numerical identifier Database containing : numerical identifiers + in metadata : info on country of origin Example : sector specific negotiation of tracking system (IPEN, Mosaicc, Kew Garden, etc.) Tom Dedeurwaerdere, "Bioprospecting, intellectual property law and evolutionary economics: the stake of a theory of reflexive governance", in Innovative Roles of Biological Resources Centres, WFCC,
Jean Swings Bernard De Baets Peter Dawyndt Xianhua Zhou Juncai Ma STRAIN INFO NET Paul De Vos Tom Dedeurwaerdere Philippe Desmeth Bart Vanbrabant A “semantic web”-enabled bioportal for integrating microbial information into global bioinformatics networks