The MTA at Addgene
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 23, 2024, 2:17 p.m.
...not a party (signatory) to the MTAs for plasmids in our repository. Instead, we facilitate the signing of...organizations choose to share their plasmids under an OpenMTA, which allows plasmids to be used for both research...If you’ve deposited or requested plasmids from Addgene, then you’ve been involved in the material transfer...Even though this process is essential to sharing plasmids around the globe, it can be a bit of a mystery...use agreements. The UBMTA, which is the MTA most plasmids at Addgene are shared under, is well-understood...with the number of requests and deposits in our repository. From 2004 to 2023, we facilitated 784,795 MTAs...MTAs per year.
The MTA Process at Addgene
As a repository, Addgene doesn’t actually own the majority of...