Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation

Scholz, A.H.,; Freitag, J.; Lyal, C.H.C.; Sara, R.; Cepeda, M.L.; Cancio, I.; Sett, S.; Hufton, A.L.; Abebaw, Y.; Bansa, K.; Benbouza, H.; Boga, H.I.; Brisse, S.; Bruford, M.W.; Clissold, H.; Cochrane, G.; Coddington, J.A.; Deletoille, A.-C.; García-Cardona, F.; Hamer, M.; Hurtado Ortiz, R.; Miano, D.W.; Nicholson, D.; Oliveira, G.; Bravo, C.O.; Rohden, F.; Seberg, O.; Segelbacher, G.; Shouche, Y.; Sierra, A.; Karsch-Mizrachi, I.; Silva, J. da; Hautea, D.M.; Silva, M. da; Suzuki, M.; Tesfaye, K.; Tiambo, Christian K.; Tolley, K.A.; Varshney, Rajeev K.; Zambrano, M.M.; Overmann, J.

Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation

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Open access to sequence data is a cornerstone of biology and biodiversity research, but has created tension under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Policy decisions could compromise research and development, unless a practical multilateral solution is implemented. Ensuring international benefit-sharing from sequence data without jeopardising open sharing is a major obstacle for the Convention on Biological Diversity and other UN negotiations. Here, the authors propose a solution to address the concerns of both developing countries and life scientists.