Data Release
All data captured by the SeqCode Registry is intended for immediate or eventual
public release. However, entries have one of three levels of visibility:
- Private: The data and metadata associated to name and register list
entries in draft status (under preparation) are only visible to the
submitters themselves and the Registry curator team. However, the name might
be listed in some pages: e.g., in the genome page or among children of the
parent taxon (if the name of the parent taxon is public). Private pages
indicate they are private with a crossed-eye icon
under the page title (top-left).
- Unlisted: Register lists that are submitted, endorsed, or
notified are not listed in the Registry and therefore cannot be found
publicly linked in the portal. However, using the direct link to the register
list (i.e., the SeqCode Accession) allows anyone to view the data and
metadata in the list. This allows authors to include the SeqCode Accession of
prepared lists in their manuscript submissions for peer review, without
making the entry findable before publication. Note that in most cases the
names will be listed in the register list, together with their rank, status,
and nomenclatural type, but all other data will remain inaccessible unless
the names themselves are public.
- Public: The data and metadata associated to name and register list
entries in validated status (validly published), as well as names with
the status of automated discovery are fully accessible to all portal
users, including unregistered visitors. All other entries in the system are
also public, including genome and publication pages. All public data in the
SeqCode Registry is available in the portal under the terms of the
CC BY 4.0 license
(Creative Commons Attribution version 4.0).
Data sources and repositories
The SeqCode Registry is not a primary repository for genomic data, and genome
sequences are not stored directly. Genome sequences must be available in INSDC
before an entry can be created, and the Registry only stores metadata associated
to these genomes. In addition, data for some entries, including publications,
authors, and some names, is directly retrieved from third-party providers, and
links are included in the corresponding pages when appropriate. Of note:
- Some data from publications and authors might be automatically retrieved
through the APIs of CrossRef,
DataCite, ORCID, and
ROR
- Some data and metadata from genomes might be automatically retrieved through
the APIs of NCBI, EBI, and
MiGA
- Some data from names might be automatically retrieved through the APIs of
ITIS, GBIF,
IRMNG, CoL,
LPSN, NCBI, and
GTDB