Conditions for use

This data is  made available before scientific publication with the
following understanding:
 
- The data may be freely downloaded, used in analyses, and repackaged
in databases.
 
- Users are free to use the data in scientific papers analyzing
particular genes and regions if the providers of this data (the Rat
Genome Sequencing Consortium) are properly acknowledged.
 
- The Centers producing the data reserve the right to publish the
initial large-scale analyses of the dataset, including large-scale
identification of regions of evolutionary conservation and large-scale
genomic assembly. Large-scale refers to regions with size on the order
of a chromosome (that is, 30 Mb or more). 

- This is in accordance with, and with the understandings in the Fort
Lauderdale meeting discussing Community Resource Projects (see
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepdat.html) and the resulting
NHGRI policy statement
(http://www.genome.gov/page.cfm?pageID=10506537).

- Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice.