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[Rodriguez Martinez, Andrea]

To whom it may concern, 

First of all, congratulations for your very useful database of signaling interactions. I am the mantaine of an R Bioconductor package, called MetaboSignal, that merges signaling and metabolic interactions from KEGG. I was wondering if we are allowed to include the omnipath dataset in our package, to merge your signaling interactions with the interactions reported in KEGG. 

Thanks very much in advance, 

Best wishes, 

Andrea

[Dénes Türei]

Dear Andrea,

Licencing was an important issue when creating OmniPath: we carefully
checked the licence of each of the resources. Many of them allows
redistribution (e.g. Creative Commons), while many of them comes
without licence, which according to todays copyright laws
unfortunately does not allow free usage, despite usually the authors
original intention was to provide their data completely under public
domain. In case of any doubt we contacted the authors and asked for
permission to redistribute their data. We draw the attention of users
on the webpage and also by the welcome message of the pypath module to
refer to the original licences: we only redistribute, but the data
carries its original licence and credits go to the authors. I am not a
copyright law expert, but I think you can do the same: redistribute
the data from sources with a permissive licence, and ask for
permission in all other cases.
Here you find the licence information we collected: http://omnipathdb.org/info

About metabolic interactions, I think this is a great idea, I am
wondering how do you construct the combined network. We too have ideas
to go in this direction, although not top priority, but maybe will
realize in the future.

Best wishes,

Denes

2017-05-24 23:46 GMT+01:00 Rodriguez Martinez, Andrea
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