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The initial release of MetaBase was derived entirely from the content of the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) 2007 Database Issue. Specifically, each MetaBase database page was 'seeded' with text from the 'Database Summaries' ^cite provided by NAR. Because of the way this text is licensed, its use is subject to several restrictions that in turn restrict the complete use of MetaBase. Although the NAR Open Access policy allows us to use the text, the following two important stipulations apply;

1. The text for each database must be reproduced verbatim and in its entirety.
2. The use of the text is to be strictly non-commercial.

For more information see the NAR license.

NOTE: The above restrictions only affect the MetaBase 'seed text'. The rest of the content in MetaBase is freely licensed. For information on using MetaBase along with instructions on how to work with the seed text see Working with MetaBase.