I would like to perform gene diversity analysis to study their ecological role and function from the bacterial whole genome data sets. This will be comparative study of different bacterial genomes will be published as a research review article.So, can I download and use genome data sets submitted by some one else in the GenBank? Can it be legal to use those genome data sets to use for my analysis?
Valuable suggestions and comments are welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Siva
the reference used in the database for the dataset must be noted in your text (GSExxxxx for exemple if it's taken from GEO/NCBI).
fred
Hi Siva,
For NCBI GenBank downloaded sequences-
-NO, you do not have to acknowledge anyone for anything- it is freely accessible, downloadable and usable- that is the purpose of public data set archiving. As it reads: " "NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. " except for some patented sequences (not whole genomes though).
-Yes, you have to cite the associated paper(only if published and shows on the records) OR GenBank Accession Number associated with the genome.
See examples here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=bacteria and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/815
Another free to use resources would be DDBJ (Free to use too): https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/download-e.html
Thanks,
Beside NCBI i would suggest another website specific for bacterial. Its free and connected to all database.
https://www.ezbiocloud.net/
Hi Siva,
I hope this will be useful for you.
Yes. You can use genomic sequences. These are freely available in public domain of NCBI.
I agree with Biswa. You do not have to acknowledge any physical entity or a person. Only acknowledge the source provider i.e. NCBI repository. Use of sequences from public domain isn't illegal.
Please Go To This Link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/howto/dwn-genome/
Yes, you can down load the data from NCBI for your research porposes.
