Acknowledgment of Data Use and Disclaimer

Data and information released from the Compositae Genome Project website are provided on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Data and/or information may contain errors or be incomplete.

Availability of this data and information does not constitute scientific publication. We request that information derived from it not be published prior to our publication without permission (see below) or 12 months from the time of display (August 1 2006 or later as indicated on individual data sets) whichever is the sooner.

Our policy is to release of data in a timely and prompt manner to aid the progress of science in general and research in lettuce and sunflower in particular. However, it is not intended to allow others to preempt our scientific publications by rushing to publication in advance of our own efforts.

Therefore, written permission should be obtained from one of the project's Principal Investigators in writing in advance of submitting any articles containing data or figures primarily derived from this website prior to our publication or within 12 months of the data being displayed whichever is the sooner.

In accordance with scientific protocol, appropriate acknowledgment of the CGP should be made in any publications or other disclosures concerning data or information made available by the CGP. We recommend references in a manuscript to unpublished data as "The Compositae Genome Project, personal communication" or credit to the individual researcher(s) as indicated in the written permission to publish. For acknowledgments, the following is requested: [xxxx] data was obtained from The Compositae Genome Project website at compgenomics.ucdavis.edu that was supported by the USDA IFAFS program and NSF Plant Genome Program.

Except as expressly described above, please do not reproduce, redistribute, transfer, or publish any information or data from the CGP web site in whole or in part without the prior written permission of a Principal Investigator of the CGP.