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5. Developing Country Perspective: Microbial Research Commons Including Viruses
5. Developing Country Perspective: Microbial Research Commons Including Viruses
Pages 31-42
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The Microbial Type Culture Collection (MTCC) at Chandigarh is the one that is recognized as part of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it gets the deposits of cultures for patenting purposes.
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We also have a separate culture collection for viruses, and we have a national facility for animal and tissue cell culture along the lines of the ATCC, although it has not grown to the same extent. In addition to these main collections at the national level, we have several specialized collections, and they do not get very much support from the national agencies.
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Since labor costs in India are lower than in developed countries, our group at Pune University made use of that asset and tried to curate this information and build a metabolic pathway database. In a fashion similar to what the previous speaker described regarding brain research, we are trying to integrate all the relevant types of metabolic information into this database.
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In addition, there is no standard system to represent the metabolic pathways themselves, and we will have to develop that as well because, as we start looking at bringing in and integrating the information, we cannot go further unless we have certain standards. We create these standards mainly to coordinate activities and exchange information amongst different groups.
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Today, there is a huge gap in understanding and awareness between those in the developing nations and those in the developed world. Most of the scientists and culture collection people in developing countries feel that they wil be losing huge resources, financial and otherwise, if they make their collections available, even if their country's administrators feel it should be done.
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This is something that has been discussed in some detail in India. The National Knowledge Commission, which was established about three years ago by the current prime minister to look at what is necessary to transform India into a knowledge society, recommended that India move towards more open education resources and open access.
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I have given a lot of time and thought behind that to try and identify how a privately held collection or a privately held body of researcher data would be identified. I only know, from various experiences and in looking at things where the legality would come into play, that if it resulted in a product or it is used for research purposes and the proper license was not taken out, it could be a problem.
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PARTICIPANT: This question is also for Stephen McCormack. You mentioned that materials in the ATCC Special Collection that were deposited prior to 1980 were not subject to the Bayh-Dole provisions, and I was wondering if materials that were deposited prior to the Convention on Biological Diversity were also exempt from those requirements.
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Somebody with a new 454 or Illumina machine could simply reproduce everything you have done within half an hour tomorrow morning. So, getting to Mark's point, I ask: Might you be able to separate data according to their nature, as in data that are easy to produce in such massive quantities versus those that must be processed in some more direct, intellectual sense to add value?
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So, there is a major advantage in training all members of the community to take maximum advantage of the microbial commons, and, by doing that, you lower the fear barrier for those disadvantaged members of the community to contribute to the commons. This can be the case both within a particular country and also internationally, so there is a great value in making sure that all members of the community are well trained in using the commons.
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A blue ribbon review panel for OECD looked at this last May, and the conclusion was that one should do something very much like a Cold Spring Harbor course. The idea is that a limited amount of money engaged in something practical like that would result in the biggest impact.
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years, a syllabus could be produced that could be used to train people in other countries through the standard curriculum and departmental type functions. That was a formula that we came up with.
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