IDDRC Bioinformatics Core Policies on Attribution and Cost Recovery

The Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC) Bioinformatics Core serves an important role in providing bioinformatics support to the KU community. These services are subsidized by the KIDDRC core grant. However, in order for this core to be successful, it is critical that investigators provide attribution and cost-recovery where appropriate. Accordingly, the following policies have been implemented.

• All publications or presentations describing studies in which services or software provided by the KIDDRC Bioinformatics Core were used should contain the following statement of attribution:

"This publication was made possible by Grant Number P30 002528 from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)."

or

"The project described was supported by Grant Number P30 002528 (NICHD) .”

and

"Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NICHD."

• In cases where bioinformatics core personal contributed to the intellectual development of the project, provided analysis of the data beyond that which would have been otherwise possible for the investigator’s team, or authored any component of the text, additional attribution should be provided in the form of authorship on the resulting manuscript or abstract.

• In developing applications for funding in which an investigator knows that bioinformatics core services will play an important role and in which these are described in the application, it is expected that the principal investigator will request support for the bioinformatics core in one of two forms. Preferably, the investigator will include salary support for bioinformatics core personnel at an appropriate percentage of effort to become active at the time that the grant is funded. Alternatively, investigators will include in the application funds for access to core resources and/or fees for services on an hourly basis. The actual charge for access and services will be established by the core and is intended to provide cost recovery for the time bioinformatics core personal devote to the project and for the proportion of core resources devoted to the project.