Reservation of MITE Accessions IDs (embargoed entries)

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Overview

Researchers preparing manuscripts on substrate- and reaction-specificities of enzymes may want to add this information to the MITE database to obtain a MITE accession ID to reference in their publication. MITE accession IDs (e.g. MITE0000001) are persistent identifiers that can be used to unambiguously identify tailoring enzymes and making them easily searchable. However, MITE's open source development does not allow for embargoed entries, and adding the information into MITE before would potentially compromise the manuscript and invite scooping.

Solution

To address this issue, we offer the option to reserve MITE accession IDs. These reserved IDs will be held back when coining MITE accessions IDs, allowing authors to refer to such reserved IDs in their manuscripts, without compromising their results.

All currently reserved IDs can be found HERE.

How to request a reservation?

To request a reservation, please feel free to contact one of the maintainers via email (e.g. @mmzdouc)

Conditions

There are a few conditions that apply before we can reserve MITE accession IDs:

• Maturity: experimental work on the enzyme is reasonably mature (i.e. you have the data and its ready to publish)
• Writing: manuscript writing should be in process
• Experimental evidence: there is experimental evidence supporting your conclusions (i.e. not purely computational)