CLONE REQUESTS: Sample Letter
2.12.06
Dear Material Requestor,
By accepting shipment of clones from the Genome Sequencing
Center you are
agreeing in good faith to the following terms concerning
the use and
distribution of arrayed cDNA clones.
You are being provided with cDNA clones produced by
the Genome Sequencing
Center at Washington University in St. Louis as a part
of the Parasitic
Nematode Sequencing Project (www.nematode.net) funded
by NIH, NSF, and other
agencies in order to advance the molecular study of
nematodes.
By accepting shipment of clones you are agreeing in
good faith to the following
terms. If you are unable to agree to these terms, you
must immediately return
provided clones along with all copies and replicas thereof.
(a) You will use the provided clones in compliance
with all applicable laws,
governmental regulations and guidelines, including National
Institutes of
Health guidelines or their equivalent, and any regulations
or guidelines
pertaining to research with humans, or animals, or with
recombinant DNA.
(b) You may use clones to produce progeny, and to create
derivative products.
You may use clones, progeny, and derivative products
for commercial or
non-commercial purposes, except for the purpose of redistribution
of clones or
progeny. Accordingly, you may transfer clones or progeny
to additional parties
only if 1) this document accompanies clones or progeny,
and 2) you transfer
clones or progeny at no cost to such additional parties.
Progeny means an
unmodified descendant from clones or any comparable
bacterial stock derived
from clones (stock). Derivative products means any modification
or product of
clones or products that is not a progeny or a stock.
(c) You will include the unique and specific identifier
of each arrayed clone
in data submitted to public databases and in resulting
publications. This
nomenclature consists of the term "Washington University
Nematode Sequencing
Project Clone" followed by the EST identifier (for
example, kt07e03.y1). You
will refer publicly (including but not limited to electronic
and print versions
of articles and databases) to these arrayed cDNA clones
as the "Washington
University Nematode Sequencing Project Clones",
and will reference the
following publication or other appropriate publication
by the project:
Wylie et al., 2004. Nematode.net: A Tool for Navigating Sequences from Parasitic and Free-Living nematodes. Nucleic Acids Research, 32: D423-6. In
Internet/World Wide Web publications and databases,
you agree to provide
electronic referencing (e.g. 'anchors' and/or 'hotlinks')
to the Washington
University Nematode Sequencing Project home page, currently
located at URL
www.nematode.net. Libraries from which the clones arose
will likewise be
identified by their name (provided at www.nematode.net/Ancillary.Info/)
in all
databases and publications.
(d) You agree that the clones provided are experimental
in nature and are being
provided without warranty, express or implied, including
any implied warranty
or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
or freedom from
infringement of any patent or other proprietary right
of a third party.
(e) You agree to hold harmless and indemnify Washington
University,
collaborating institutions and funders, and material
providers and persons
acting on their behalf, for any claim asserted by a
third party related to your
possession, use, storage, or disposal of provided materials.
(f) You understand that the ownership of the unarrayed
cDNA libraries from
which clones were arrayed is retained by the originators
of those libraries.
Any new patentable developments or inventions first
made by any party using the
arrayed clones will remain the property of the inventing
party. This Agreement
does not constitute the Originators waiver of any patent
rights.
Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D.
Director, Genome Sequencing Center
Makedonka Mitreva , Ph.D.
Research Instructor, Genome Sequencing Center
James McCarter, M.D., Ph.D.
Group Leader, Genome Sequencing Center
Any correspondence concerning this letter should be
addressed to:
Parasitic Nematode Sequencing Project
Genome Sequencing Center
Washington Univ. School of Medicine
4444 Forest Park Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
nematode@watson.wustl.edu
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