The original mission of GISAID was that data deposited there would go to GenBank as well, with little or no delay.

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And even if you have a GISAID account, as I do, you have to agree not to release the data as a condition of getting a look.

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But in a classic bait-and-switch move, the GISAID board changed that policy after the database was up and running, and now they can sit on data as long as they want.

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