The K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core (KBC) serves an important role in providing bioinformatics support to IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) investigators across the state of Kansas. These services are subsidized by the K-INBRE core grant. However, in order for this core to be successful, it is critical that investigators provide attribution and cost-recovery where appropriate. Accordingly, the following policies have been implemented.

• All publications or presentations describing studies in which services or software provided by the KBC were used should contain the following statement of attribution:

    Supported by the K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core, NIH grant number P20 RR016475.

• In cases where KBC Core Staff contributed to the intellectual development of the project, provided analysis of the data beyond that which would have been otherwise possible for the investigator’s team, or authored any component of the text, additional attribution should be provided in the form of authorship on the resulting manuscript or abstract.

• In developing applications for funding in which an investigator knows that KBC services will play an important role and in which these are described in the application, it is expected that the principal investigator will request support for the KBC in one of two forms. Preferably, the investigator will include salary support for KBC staff at an appropriate percentage of effort (typically 3-5% FTE depending upon the extent of services), to become active at the time that the grant is funded. Alternatively, investigators will include in the application funds for access to core resources and/or fees for services on an hourly basis. The actual charge for access and services will be established by the core and is intended to provide full cost recovery for the time KBC staff devote to the project and for the proportion of core resources devoted to the project.