As a public service, the raw sequence data, assemblies, and annotation from the edible mushrooms project are being made available to the community by the Mushroom Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration (MRD-NIHHS-RDA) before scientific publication. The purpose of this policy is to balance the imperative of MRD-NIHHS-RDA that the data from its projects be made available to the scientific community as soon as possible with the reasonable expectation that the collaborators and the MRD-NIHHS-RDA will publish the primary report without concerns about preemption by other groups that did not participate in the effort.

These pre-publication data are preliminary and may contain errors. The goal of our policy is that early release should enable the progress of science. By accessing these data, you agree not to publish any articles containing analyses of genes or genomic data prior to publication by MRD-NIHHS-RDA and its collaborators of its comprehensive genome analysis without the consent of project's principal investigator and the MRD-NIHHS-RDA. These restrictions will be lifted on the publication of the whole genome description and will be indicated on this page. Scientists must contact the principal collaborator and MRD-NIHHS-RDA about their intentions to include any data from this genome in a publication prior to publication of MRD-NIHHS-RDA��s primary report in order to ensure that their publication that does not compete directly with planned publications (e.g. reserved analyses) of the MRD-NIHHS-RDA and collaborators.

A principal collaborator listed in the organism's Info page, is the point of contact and arbiter regarding publication plans. Reserved analyses include but are not limited to the identification and analysis of complete (whole genome) sets of genomic features such as genes and gene expression levels, gene families, gene clusters, regulatory elements, repeat structures, GC content, etc.,Manually annotated genes are also reserved. Studies of any type on the reserved data sets that are not in direct competition with those planned by the MRD-NIHHS-RDA its collaborators may also be undertaken after an agreement with principal collaborator and MRD-NIHHS-RDA . Interested parties must contact the principal collaborator and MRD-NIHHS-RDA to discuss such possibilities.

If these data are used for publication, the following acknowledgment should be included: "These sequence data were produced by the Korea Rural Development Administration http://112.220.192.2/mushroom/ in collaboration with the user community." We request that you notify us upon publication so that this information can be included in the final annotation.

The data may be freely downloaded and used by all who respect the restrictions in the previous paragraphs. While still in waiting period, the assembly and raw sequence reads should not be redistributed or repackaged without permission from the MRD-NIHHS-RDA. When such permission has been obtained, any redistribution of the data during this period should carry this notice: "MRD-NIHHS-RDA provides these data in good faith, but makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for any purpose for which the data are used." and users should be directed to this release policy page. Once moved to unreserved status, the data are freely available for any subsequent use.