Geneticists are up in arms over the introduction of a subscription fee for access So the protein databases owned and maintained by Incyte Genomics, a private company based in Palo Alto, California. The databases, which contain information about protein structure and function in important model organisms studied by biologists, had been free to academics. But Incyte last month introduced an annual access charge of $2,000 per laboratory ― a move that has already prompted an effort to secure more funding for public databases.
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