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  "id": 405663,
  "title": "String Database",
  "url": "/competitions/cafa-5-protein-function-prediction/discussion/405663",
  "author_name": "MT",
  "post_date": "2023-04-28T18:47:24.393000",
  "votes": 7,
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  "content": "<p>STRING is a protein-protein interaction database, and I suspect a good resource for training. However, it incorporates some license-restricted data (KEGG I think). Can I please just have confirmation that we can not use it under the competition rule?</p>",
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      "id": 2238720,
      "postDate": "2023-04-28T18:47:24.393Z",
      "content": "<p>STRING is a protein-protein interaction database, and I suspect a good resource for training. However, it incorporates some license-restricted data (KEGG I think). Can I please just have confirmation that we can not use it under the competition rule?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "STRING is a protein-protein interaction database, and I suspect a good resource for training. However, it incorporates some license-restricted data (KEGG I think). Can I please just have confirmation that we can not use it under the competition rule?",
      "votes": 7
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    {
      "id": 2238737,
      "postDate": "2023-04-28T18:59:09.143Z",
      "content": "<p>Seems to me all of STRING's data is CC-BY. Can you point out where there is data that is not licensed as such?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://string-db.org/cgi/download?sessionId=bJksEn88Bas4\" target=\"_blank\">https://string-db.org/cgi/download?sessionId=bJksEn88Bas4</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Seems to me all of STRING's data is CC-BY. Can you point out where there is data that is not licensed as such?\n\nhttps://string-db.org/cgi/download?sessionId=bJksEn88Bas4\n\n",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2238764,
          "postDate": "2023-04-28T19:23:28.007Z",
          "content": "<p>Sorry, I might have hallucinated. it's something that was in the back of my mind but I didn't actually check the download page…</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Sorry, I might have hallucinated. it's something that was in the back of my mind but I didn't actually check the download page...",
          "votes": 2,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2238796,
              "postDate": "2023-04-28T19:57:38.320Z",
              "content": "<p>You're right that STRING used to have an academic/ nonprofit-only component in their license, but that went away years ago.</p>",
              "rawMarkdown": "You're right that STRING used to have an academic/ nonprofit-only component in their license, but that went away years ago.",
              "votes": 4
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      "id": 2238790,
      "postDate": "2023-04-28T19:56:24.870Z",
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      "id": 2238737,
      "author_name": "Iddo Friedberg",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-04-28T18:59:09.143000",
      "content": "<p>Seems to me all of STRING's data is CC-BY. Can you point out where there is data that is not licensed as such?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://string-db.org/cgi/download?sessionId=bJksEn88Bas4\" target=\"_blank\">https://string-db.org/cgi/download?sessionId=bJksEn88Bas4</a></p>",
      "votes": 2,
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          "id": 2238764,
          "author_name": "MT",
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          "post_date": "2023-04-28T19:23:28.007000",
          "content": "<p>Sorry, I might have hallucinated. it's something that was in the back of my mind but I didn't actually check the download page…</p>",
          "votes": 2,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2238796,
              "author_name": "Iddo Friedberg",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "2023-04-28T19:57:38.320000",
              "content": "<p>You're right that STRING used to have an academic/ nonprofit-only component in their license, but that went away years ago.</p>",
              "votes": 4,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
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      "id": 2238790,
      "author_name": "",
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    "2238720": "STRING is a protein-protein interaction database, and I suspect a good resource for training. However, it incorporates some license-restricted data (KEGG I think). Can I please just have confirmation that we can not use it under the competition rule?",
    "2238737": "Seems to me all of STRING's data is CC-BY. Can you point out where there is data that is not licensed as such?\n\nhttps://string-db.org/cgi/download?sessionId=bJksEn88Bas4\n\n",
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