How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?

Raposo, Débora; Faggionato, Davide; Ebert, Barbara; Orozco, Pablo; Cochrane, Guy; Bào, Yīmíng; Arita, Masanori; Muñoz García, Melania; Freitag, Jens; Hirsch, Tim; E. Cook, Charles; Vos, Rutger; Reimer, L.C.; Ratnasingham, Sujeevan; Rouard, Mathieu; Brinkley, Sarah; Lange, Matthias; Scholz, Uwe; Weise, Stéphan; Usadel, Björn; FINN, ROBERT; Park, Chan-Ho; Haas, A; Castle, David; O’Cathail, Colman; H. Scholz, Amber

doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07725-y

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How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?

Published in Scientific Data • Jun 24, 2026

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Débora Raposo

Davide Faggionato

Barbara Ebert

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In October 2024, Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to a new multilateral mechanism to fund biodiversity conservation through the sharing of benefits from open biodiversity data. Biological databases hosting genetic and other biological data, known as digital seq...

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