CNGB Nucleotide Sequence Archive (CNSA), as a data storage and sharing platform of CNGB, is committed to store and share data of biological research projects, samples, experimentals of genome, transcriptome and other omics sequencing analysis. It aims to provide global researchers with the data and information resources, data storage and sharing services, promoting the development of biological scientific research. CNSA also serves as a supplement to the literature publishing process to support early data sharing[1-2]. CNSA actively responds to related propose and strictly follows the agreements, such as Fort Lauderdale Agreement, NHGRI Rapid Data Release Policies, Joint Data Archiving Policy and CC[3]. CNSA will release the open data to a public area for researchers to access on the premise of full compliance with these agreements.

Submitting research data to CNSA is assumed consent to all the agreement of CNSA’s open data protocol. If the data is ethical issues involved, please send the corresponding ethical materials to datasubs@cngb.org for review and backup. If the project which the data belongs to is related to the collecting, trading, or exporting human genetic resources outside the territory of the People’s Republic of China please send an electronic copy of approval document from related departmentsfor the Administration of Human Genetic Resources (regions or countries with Measures for the Administration of Human Genetic Resources only) to datasubs@cngb.org for review and backup.

For quering, retrieving, accessing, downloadingand using data more easily, CNSA provides an accession ID or a citable digital object identifier (DOI) for each approved submitted data. To respect the research achievements of all researchers, please make an initial confirmation before any use.

If you have any questions in use process, please contact us: datasubs@cngb.org. Collaborative interactions are welcome to provide global researchers with comprehensive and up-to-date datasets.

Disclaimer

CNSA itself does not impose any restrictions on the usage or distribution of the fully open data on the premise of full compliance with the data ethic, authority, and rights that are stated by global scientific research users.

Users (the institutions or the original countries to which the data belongs) can declare the patents, copyrights or other intellectual property rights for all or part of the submitted data. Other users are required to comply fully with such intellectual property rights .

Users involved must follow the Interim Measures for the Administration of Human Genetic Resources and ethical norms in their own countries, submit real information of organization and contact , and be responsible for the legality and compliance of their uploaded data. Any legal disputes, administrative penalties or criminal liabilities due to the users' concealment or misstatement, users or their organizations should be liable for the responsibility, and CNSA does assume no legal liability.

CNSA only receives data with non-identifiable personal information . Users or their organizations should bear the relevant legal liability for the risk of personal information leakage in their submitted data, and CNSA does assume no legal liability.

Data administrator (datasubs@cngb.org) is responsible for data audit, ethical approvals, review and backup, user consulting, etc. CNSA reserves the right to refuse data uploads for users in case of data administrator has not received the electronic copy of relevant ethical approvals. More details subjects to data administrator's reply.

All information in CNSA is provided in a "WYSIWYG" manner without any explicit or implicit warranty (includes but not limited to the warranties of the suitability for a particular purpose and/or non-infringement). CNSA does not assume any legal liability or obligation for its intended use.

[1] Open science and the role of publishers in reproducible research
[2] EBI Serving as a complement to the literature publication process and supporting early data sharing
[3] https://creativecommons.org