Biological data in digital form has become a, if not the, driving force behind innovations in biology, medicine, and the environment. No study and no model would be complete without access to digital data (including text) collected by others and available in public repositories. With this ascent in the fundamental importance of data for reproducible scientific progress has come a troubling paradox.

翻译：数字化生物数据已成为生物学、医学和环境领域创新的核心驱动力。任何研究与模型都必须借助他人采集并存储于公共数据库中的数字数据（包括文本）方可完整。随着数据对可复现科学进步的基础重要性日益凸显，一个令人困扰的悖论也随之浮现。