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

Amber Hartman Scholz; Jens Freitag; Christopher H C Lyal; Rodrigo Sara; Martha Lucia Cepeda; Ibon Cancio; Scarlett Sett; Andrew Lee Hufton; Yemisrach Abebaw; Kailash Bansal; Halima Benbouza; Hamadi Iddi Boga; Sylvain Brisse; Michael W Bruford; Hayley Clissold; Guy Cochrane; Jonathan A Coddington; Anne-Caroline Deletoille; Felipe García-Cardona; Michelle Hamer; Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz; Douglas W Miano; David Nicholson; Guilherme Oliveira; Carlos Ospina Bravo; Fabian Rohden; Ole Seberg; Gernot Segelbacher; Yogesh Shouche; Alejandra Sierra; Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi; Jessica da Silva; Desiree M Hautea; Manuela da Silva; Mutsuaki Suzuki; Kassahun Tesfaye; Christian Keambou Tiambo; Krystal A Tolley; Rajeev Varshney; María Mercedes Zambrano; Jörg Overmann

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28594-0

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

Nat Commun. 2022 Feb 23;13(1):1086. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28594-0.

Authors

Amber Hartman Scholz¹, Jens Freitag², Christopher H C Lyal³, Rodrigo Sara^{4

5}, Martha Lucia Cepeda⁶, Ibon Cancio⁷, Scarlett Sett⁴, Andrew Lee Hufton⁴, Yemisrach Abebaw⁸, Kailash Bansal⁹, Halima Benbouza¹⁰, Hamadi Iddi Boga¹¹, Sylvain Brisse¹², Michael W Bruford¹³, Hayley Clissold¹⁴, Guy Cochrane¹⁵, Jonathan A Coddington¹⁶, Anne-Caroline Deletoille¹², Felipe García-Cardona¹⁷, Michelle Hamer¹⁸, Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz¹², Douglas W Miano¹⁹, David Nicholson¹⁴, Guilherme Oliveira²⁰, Carlos Ospina Bravo²¹, Fabian Rohden²², Ole Seberg²³, Gernot Segelbacher²⁴, Yogesh Shouche²⁵, Alejandra Sierra²⁶, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi²⁷, Jessica da Silva^{18

28}, Desiree M Hautea²⁹, Manuela da Silva³⁰, Mutsuaki Suzuki³¹, Kassahun Tesfaye^{8

32}, Christian Keambou Tiambo³³, Krystal A Tolley^{18

28}, Rajeev Varshney³⁴, María Mercedes Zambrano³⁵, Jörg Overmann^{4

36}

Affiliations

¹ Leibniz Institute DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany. amber.h.scholz@dsmz.de.
² Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, Germany.
³ Natural History Museum, London, UK.
⁴ Leibniz Institute DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
⁵ One Planet Solutions, Montpellier, France.
⁶ Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷ Plentzia Marine Station (PiE-UPV/EHU), European Marine Biological Resource Centre - Spain (EMBRC-Spain), Plentzia, Spain.
⁸ Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁹ National Academy of Agricultural Science and Global Plant Council, New Delhi, India.
¹⁰ National Council of Scientific Research and Technologies (NCSRT), Algiers, Algeria.
¹¹ Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹² Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
¹³ School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
¹⁴ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
¹⁵ European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK.
¹⁶ Global Genome Initiative, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁷ Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, Bogota, Colombia.
¹⁸ South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁹ University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
²⁰ Instituto Tecnologico Vale (ITV), Belem, Brazil.
²¹ Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Bogota, Colombia.
²² University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.
²³ Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
²⁴ University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
²⁵ National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India.
²⁶ Mariano Galvez University, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
²⁷ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
²⁸ Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
²⁹ University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines.
³⁰ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³¹ National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan.
³² Institute of Biotechnology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
³³ Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH) - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya.
³⁴ Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia.
³⁵ Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
³⁶ Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Conservation of Natural Resources*