For those of you who rely on sequence information (e.g. DNA sequences) from public databases in your research, this is an open letter supporting open access and requesting that researchers are given a voice when it comes to legislation on access to Digital Sequence Information (DSI):
https://www.dsiscientificnetwork.org/open-letter/
Please consider signing it if you agree. There is also a recent relevant paper from the DSI Scientific Network on how benefit-sharing could be set up in a way that preserves open access to sequence information:
Scholz, A. H. et al. 2022. Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications 13: 1086