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cord-317853-vd35a2eq	Shu, Yuelong	GISAID: Global initiative on sharing all influenza data – from vision to reality	2017-03-30		.txt	text/plain	1853	73	39	In 2006, the reluctance of data sharing, in particular of avian H5N1 influenza viruses, created an emergency bringing into focus certain limitations and inequities, such that the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global Influenza Surveillance Network (now the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) [5] ) was criticised on several fronts, including limited global access to H5N1 sequence data that were stored in a database hosted by the Los Alamos National Laboratories in the United States (US) [6, 7] . Scientists charged with the day to day responsibilities of running WHO Collaborating Centres (CCs) for Influenza, National Influenza Centres and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)/ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) [8] reference laboratories, were therefore eager to play a key role and provide scientific oversight in the creation and development of GISAID's data sharing platform that soon became essential for our work.	./cache/cord-317853-vd35a2eq.txt	./txt/cord-317853-vd35a2eq.txt