Since the use of GeneChip probe sequences for deriving inter-platform overlap is currently prohibited by Affymetrix for publication purposes, we needed to rely upon public annotation to determine the overlap between products rather than more informative sequence-based comparisons.
The data published by the USPPA were public and anonymous; their use for study and publication purposes was authorised beforehand by the USPPA.
"I'm not that interested in doing a lot of research for publication purposes only," said Maynard A. Howe, the chief executive of Stemedica Cell Technologies in San Diego, which is developing a drug made from donated stem cells.
The study respondents provided consent to use the data for publication purposes.
As part of the research's ethical obligations, all interview informants gave the researchers permission to use interview material for publication purposes.
Furthermore, the enhanced filter and lighting configuration ensures a reduced background signal, aiding the capture of high-contrast images that are ideal for publication purposes and for working in preparative modes.
This study was approved by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Institutional Review Board (IRB 13-186; registered under www.clinicaltrials.gov identifier number NCT02016872), and all subjects signed a written informed consent regarding the examination and use of anonymized data for research and publication purposes.
Although the final result of the pipeline is non-visual (i.e. a semantically enriched BIM model), all steps produce a visual output which is used for debugging the pipeline, for the verification of the results and for publication purposes.
There are two main use cases for data conversion: migrating to a different cheminformatics format to be consumed by a specific software application, and the generation of graphics for presentation or publication purposes.
