On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Bazeley, Peter <
Peter.Bazeley@rockets.utoledo.edu> wrote:

>  Dear List,
>
> If I were to use data from a publicly available dataset (e.g. NCBI GEO) as
> one of the data objects (i.e. accessible through the data() function)
> included in my package, do I need to obtain permission from the data
> depositor? (I would only use a small subset of the data to limit the package
> size.)
>
>
I believe the data in public repositories are "public".  Since the data in
GEO are MIAME compliant, they should contain the contributor information and
reference (if there are any); maintaining those metadata in Bioc is pretty
straightforward.

Sean

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