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ReviewNature genetics2025

The LISTEN principles for genetic sequence data governance and database engineering.

Colin J Carlson, Monica Granados, Alexandra Phelan, Nithin Ramakrishnan, Timothée Poisot

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Review in Nature genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Colin J Carlson *Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA. colin.carlson@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-8434
Monica GranadosCreative Commons, Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-9341
Alexandra PhelanJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Nithin RamakrishnanThird World Network, Penang, Malaysia.
Timothée Poisot *Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. timothee.poisot@umontreal.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0735-5184

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI 2213854National Science Foundation (NSF) SES 2314520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several international legal agreements include an 'access and benefit-sharing' (ABS) mechanism that attaches obligations to the use of genetic sequence data. These agreements are frequently subject to critique on the grounds that ABS is either fundamentally incompatible with the principles of open science, or technically challenging to implement in open scientific databases. Here, we argue that these critiques arise from a misinterpretation of the principles of open science and that both considerations can be addressed by a set of simple principles that link database engineering and governance. We introduce a checklist of six database design considerations, LISTEN: licensed, identified, supervised, transparent, enforced and non-exclusive, which can be readily adopted by both new and existing platforms participating in ABS systems. We also highlight how these principles can act in concert with familiar principles of open science, such as findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data sharing.

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Databases, GeneticInformation DisseminationHumans

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