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An open-source software package to power microbial genomic databases
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Find open licensed images for all organisms used #2298

Open theosanderson opened 2 months ago

theosanderson commented 2 months ago

CCHF: https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/40689899455/ from NIAID may need attribution, it might be easier to find something in the public domain for simplicity

Sudan ebolavirus: https://www.nih.gov/sites/default/files/styles/featured_media_breakpoint-medium/public/news-events/news-releases/2023/niaid-03.jpg?itok=m4wFNGkn&timestamp=1675437186 for Sudan is also NIAID and the same

Image we have been using for Zaire ebolavirus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebola_Virus_Particles_(5).jpg same NIAID

West Nile image is free to use: https://pixnio.com/science/microscopy-images/west-nile-disease/micrograph-of-the-west-nile-virus

Non-submission open data demos: SC2 demo: https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/field/image/1583952355.1997.jpg is public domain: https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=23311

mpox demo: The mpox image seems to often be attributed to WHO. Rights unclear. https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/health-topics/monkeypox/12763.tmb-1200v.jpg?sfvrsn=cd044fbd_37

Originally posted by @theosanderson in https://github.com/loculus-project/loculus/issues/1908#issuecomment-2214220635

emmahodcroft commented 2 months ago

Just to make this really explicit

Viruses with images we need as fully-open (no attribution needed, as this gets messy) (for main launch):

We also can't show these but if they aren't on easily publicly accessible versions this is probably ok:

emmahodcroft commented 4 weeks ago

just FYI this is the one for Ebola Zaire: https://www.flickr.com/photos/niaid/14440817981/in/album-72157646274075631/

(The above links actually went to two source of the same ebola photo)