Dear Bioinformaticians
These days it has become an increasingly common issue where all the ideas,
analysis and results are reported by bioinformatician, whereas his name is
missing from the paper submitted. This has happened with me in the 'Genome
of The Netherlands' GoNL project where after having worked in the project
for 7 months with providing various kinds of inputs and results, my name
was not included in any conference or journal publications! The list of
authors attached with this mail clearly mentions me in several of the
minutes of the meetings (which can be provided if and when needed) Here are
the publication details:
Laurent C Francioli, Androniki Menelaou, Sara L Pulit, Freerk van Dijk,
Pier Francesco Palamara, Clara C Elbers, Pieter B T Neerincx, Kai Ye,
Victor Guryev, Wigard P Kloosterman,et al. Whole-genome sequence variation,
population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population. The
Genome of the Netherlands Consortium. Nat Genet. 2014 Jun 29. doi:
10.1038/ng.3021.
Kiezun A, Pulit SL, Francioli LC, van Dijk F, Swertz M, al., Genome of the
Netherlands Consortium, (2013) Deleterious Alleles in the Human Genome Are
on Average Younger Than Neutral Alleles of the Same Frequency. PLoS Genet
9(2): e1003301. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003301 (as member of GoNL
analysis team) [pdf] (As member of the GoNL data analysis team)
K.Ye, V.Guryev, W.Kloosterman, L.Francioli, J.Y.Hehir-Kwa, E.Lameijer,
A.Abdellaoui, J. de Ligt, V. Koval, N. Amin, F. van Dijk, L.C. Karssen, H.
Mei, Genome of the Netherlands consortium, Analysis of structural variation
in the Genome of the Netherlands (GoNL) project, ASHG, San Francisco, Nov
2012 (As member of the GoNL data analysis team)
V. Guryev, W. Kloosterman, L. Francioli, J. Y. Hehir-Kwa, E. Lameijer, A.
Abdellaoui, J. de Ligt, V. Koval, N. Amin, F. van Dijk, L. C. Karssen, H.
Mei, K. Ye, Genome of the Netherlands consortium, Analysis of structural
variation in the Genome of the Netherlands (GoNL) project, ESHG, Nurnberg,
June 2012 (As member of the GoNL data analysis team)
Laurent C. francioli, Kiran V. Garimella, Mark A. dePristo, Paul I.W. de
Bakker on behalf of Genome of the Netherlands Project, Trio-aware SNP
discovery and genotyping in low coverage whole genome sequencing, Genetica
Retraite, 15-16 March 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands (As member of the
GoNL data analysis team)
The Genome of the Netherlands Consortium. Whole-genome sequence variation,
population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population. Nat
Genet. 2014 Jun 29. doi: 10.1038/ng.3021.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24974849
Deelen P, Menelaou A, van Leeuwen EM, Kanterakis A, van Dijk F,
Medina-Gomez C, Francioli LC, Hottenga JJ, Karssen LC, Estrada K,
Kreiner-Møller E, Rivadeneira F, van Setten J, Gutierrez-Achury J, Westra
HJ, Franke L, van Enckevort D, Dijkstra M, Byelas H, van Duijn CM; Genome
of the Netherlands Consortium, de Bakker PIW, Wijmenga C, Swertz MA.
Improved imputation quality of low-frequency and rare variants in European
samples using the "Genome of The Netherlands". Eur J Hum Genet. 2014 Jun 4.
doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.19. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24896149
Boomsma DI, Wijmenga C, Slagboom EP, Swertz MA, Karssen LC, Abdellaoui A,
Ye K, Guryev V, Vermaat M, van Dijk F, Francioli LC, Hottenga JJ,Laros JF,
Li Q, Li Y, Cao H, Chen R, Du Y, Li N, Cao S, van Setten J, Menelaou A,
Pulit SL, Hehir-Kwa JY, Beekman M, Elbers CC, Byelas H,de Craen AJ, Deelen
P, Dijkstra M, den Dunnen JT, de Knijff P, Houwing-Duistermaat J, Koval V,
Estrada K, Hofman A, Kanterakis A, van Enckevort D, Mai H, Kattenberg M,
van Leeuwen EM, Neerincx PB, Oostra B, Rivadeneira F, Suchiman EH,
Uitterlinden AG, Willemsen G, Wolffenbuttel BH, Wang J, de Bakker PIW, van
Ommen GJ, van Duijn CM. The Genome of the Netherlands: design, and project
goals. Eur J Hum Genet. 2014 Feb;22(2):221-7. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.118.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23714750
I got it written from my employer as an email from his authentic
institutional email account that authorship will be awarded for work, and I
need not worry about it. However, he did not stood by his words!
This also happened with me while I was working in Toronto and gave 2
presentations to my SickKids employer reporting that the human genome does
not look like 99.9% similar but reasonably less. I compared Celera genome (
this has 60% J Craig Venter's genome) and NCBI genomes. Few months after I
left the job after giving the reports to my boss, a highly cited paper got
published reporting the same findings that the human genomes are only about
99.5% similar comparing J Craig Venter genome and NCBI genome, and it did
not have my name in it. I could have well left the employment without
giving a presentation! However, I did ask my boss if I should present my
work and if he would be able to attend the presentation, for which he gave
me confirmatory email reply by his authentic institutional email account
that he would be present in my talk, and that he would look at the
prospects of publishing the work after some experimental confirmation is
done, as the results are only computationally predicted. He did not stood
by his words after he got experimental confirmation, and did not list me
anywhere. Here is the publication:
Levy S, Sutton G, Ng PC, Feuk L, Halpern AL et al. (2007) The Diploid
Genome Sequence of an Individual Human. PLoS Biol 5(10): e254.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050254 (worked in the project) .
I did inform the conference steering committee and the journal editors
about the issues, but they do not seem to be interested in resolving the
issues. Any suggestions regarding how to tackle this unethical practice in
science would be appreciated, where bioinformatics are hired to get results
and not being put as co-author, if not the first author, in the resulting
discoveries.
Well there are even more gross unethical practices in science that happen
such as your supervisor takes your findings and sells those to results to
another group for exchange of cash or other benefits. The other group which
may be in another country, publishes the work or even patents it on its own
name. However, such cases are I guess very difficult to prove and so I drop
out from going into details of it. Is there a central global biological
sciences or bioinformatics legal body where I can raise my voice? Else,
such incidents only serves as examples set for promoting more such
malpractices in science for future. My supervisor kicked me from lab in
Cambridge University in June , and 2 months later in August my ideas are
then submitted as a patent priority application by another group in Europe
for vitamin B5 overproduction
http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2010018196 . You will see clearly
in my PhD thesis submission
https://1c4016a7-a-7221ba2e-s-sites....attredirects=0
<https://1c4016a7-a-7221ba2e-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/iitdalumni.com/abi/publications/PhD%20Thesis%20Cambridge%20University?attachauth=ANoY7cqu40rMcQTgyhoy2Am-BuQRc_oYNjCGC1Bfc7VXswTN0Dshrv68M-fse4CuIWzKnptJjSvp6ScaNSSVyg4dgRgiy69ah7dgMbyw6SUiYQXv6n9n3Md3N2YmUem7SbdLtA-0psdwibjG57MNBpNbYgS5P2SjoAoO71d8BhQS8Vd42yxfJpD2lUG3wwUjYjq5erzhSugxb6BfmOIEFtxBwG6R5f59tb_9-JPgTyCqDFTHVYnSWwx20-sRV4S0J3FlTFF2prkN&attredirects=0>
,
which is before in July 2008 than this priority date, that I have given the
same ideas . Is there a way to act on this and authorship cases legally ?
Regards,
Abhishek Narain Singh
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