"We really, really want give them credit for what they have accomplished." They really have revolutionized access to all these data," says David Haussler, a computational biologist at UCSC who is Hinrichs's boss. Even critics note that data are much easier to upload to GISAID than to open-access repositories, and that GISAID speedily curates sequences. … On rare occasions, GISAID has found it necessary to temporarily suspend access credentials to protect the GISAID sharing mechanism."īoth fans and critics emphasize that GISAID has provided an invaluable service during the pandemic, gathering many more coronavirus sequences than open-access databases like the United States's GenBank. In a statement, GISAID said, "Any individual who registers with GISAID and agrees to the GISAID terms of use will be granted access credentials. " has that sword hanging over any scientist that works on SARS-CoV-2." "I am so tired of being scared all the time, of being terrified that if I take a step wrong I will lose access to the data that I base my research on," says one scientist who declines to be identified.
They say that even as they race to study coronavirus evolution, they are walking on eggshells around their chief data supplier. Many scientists who voiced criticisms declined to be identified for fear of losing GISAID access. They reported an opaque process of gaining access, unexplained interruptions once access was won, and phone harangues or threatening legal letters when they got on the wrong side of GISAID's strict rules against resharing data.
A dozen scientists spoke with Science raising complaints about their interactions with GISAID. As a result, she says, "My trees that use GISAID data are falling behind."
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Since December, she has had to download GISAID's sequences 10,000 at a time, with no access to most of the metadata unless she looks at each of the 10,000 sequences individually. She emailed GISAID repeatedly pleading for restored access, but hasn't gotten it. Access to the free, nonprofit repository has become vital to Hinrichs and thousands of other scientists and public health agencies tracking the virus' alarmingly rapid evolution.īut instead of getting a direct data feed, Hinrichs lost her existing access to two conveniently packaged GISAID files that are the next best thing. With more than 700,000 genomes from more than 160 countries, GISAID is by far the world's largest database of SARS-CoV-2 sequences. That tool ties any position in the virus' nearly 30,000-letter genome to other scientific information, much as Google Maps shows gas stations and restaurants near addresses. She wanted GISAID's data so she could display mutations on UCSC's coronavirus Genome Browser.
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In December 2020, software developer Angie Hinrichs at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), applied for access to a labor-saving data feed from GISAID, a nonprofit database of viral sequences including those of the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.
Science' s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.
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