GOLD metadata are freely available for research purposes, including data analysis, research presentations, conference posters, journal publications etc.

GOLD is a curated resource serving the research community and your input is critical to ensure high quality, accurate metadata in GOLD. If there is a need to update a record either due to an error or missing information or you have additional metadata, please contact us and we will gladly update GOLD.

Please contact us if you need custom database reports that are not readily available on GOLD site.

Please cite (Supratim Mukherjee; Dimitri Stamatis; Jon Bertsch; Galina Ovchinnikova; Olena Verezemska; Michelle Isbandi; Alex D. Thomas; Rida Ali; Kaushal Sharma; Nikos C. Kyrpides; T. B. K. Reddy. Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.6: data updates and feature enhancements. Nucl. Acids Res. (2016); doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw992) if you use GOLD data in your publications.

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