Our platform has developed considerably in recent years, with high-discrimination typing schemes and nomenclatures, novel analytical functionality, and improved interfaces. We are facing increased usage, including for public health and industrial applications. Our ambition is to continue our developments in order to provide high-quality services to the global community. We also aim to improve our sustainability by diversifying our sources of income.
Hereby, we would like to inform you of an upcoming change in our data access policy, which our platform will put in place within a few days.
To enable us to set up this novel data access policy, access to alleles, profiles, and isolates added after the 31st of December 2024 will not be accessible for anonymous users. Note that this includes access via the application programming interface (API) and may affect the results of your queries as a non-authenticated user.
Therefore, if you wish to access data submitted or created after 31/12/2024, please ensure that you are logged in when querying the data on these platforms. For API access, your code will need to authenticate to access the post-2024 data (API authentication help).
To facilitate a smooth transition and allow you to adjust to this change, we will periodically open and close access to the newest data every two weeks from 1st October 2024 until the end of the year; these data will remain open without authentication after the trial period finishes (end December 2024).
On 1st January 2025, this change will be made permanent, meaning registration will be mandatory in order to access data added after the 31st of December 2024.
We hope you will agree on the need to strengthen the quality and sustainability of our platforms, and that you will take action to adapt to the proposed data access change.
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biology.ox.ac.uk (contact us) if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Keith Jolley, Martin Maiden, Angela Brueggemann, and Sam Sheppard (2024-09-27)