Editorial, Nature 461, 145 (10. September 2009)
“More and more often these days, a research project’s success is measured not just by the publications it produces, but also by the data it makes available to the wider community.
Pioneering archives such as GenBank have demonstrated just how powerful such legacy data sets can be for generating new discoveries – especially when data are combined from many laboratories and analysed in ways that the original researchers could not have anticipated.”