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Data users may freely download and analyze ENCODE data without 
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genes; however, there is a narrow 9-month "moratorium" on the 
publication of global analysis of ENCODE data sets to allow the data producers 
the opportunity to publish first if they wish. Following the expiration 
of the moratorium period or publication by the data producers (whichever is 
first), publication of global analyses is unrestricted.
Most released datasets are already outside the moratorium. See the 
Data Summary and 
Mouse Data Summary
pages for the restriction times of individual data sets.
The publication and presentation
moratorium is expected to extend to
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presentations, and formal electronic submissions to publicly accessible
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acknowledge the following in all oral or written presentations,
disclosures, or publications of the analyses:
                          
                            The resource producersEither of the following publications, as
relevant:
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supported the work
                            The respective DCC Data users should properly acknowledge
the ENCODE
Project and resource producer(s) as the source of the data in any
publication.  See the full  ENCODE-modENCODE Data Release Policy (2009-Present)
document for further details, and the 
ENCODE-modENCODE Data Release Policy description page at NHGRI for
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