On 2013 Nov 15, George McNamara commented:

The PubSpectra dataset of over 2,000 fluorescence spectra is now (2013) downloadable in the Excel XLSX file inside a zip archive downloadable from

http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/9/

The Boswell spectra graphing site described in this paper is defunct and has been replaced by Urs Utzinger and Carl Boswell's University of Arizona Spectra site

http://www.spectra.arizona.edu/

Urs has added additional spectra - especially 2-photon excitation spectra - to his web site.

Several vendors have spectral graphing sites, including (but not limited to)

http://www.semrock.com/searchlight-welcome.aspx

http://www.chroma.com/spectra-viewer

LifeTech/Invitrogen/Molecular Probes http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/life-science/cell-analysis/labeling-chemistry/fluorescence-spectraviewer.html instructions: http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/references/molecular-probes-the-handbook/technical-notes-and-product-highlights/using-the-fluorescence-spectraviewer.html

Leica http://www.leica-microsystems.com/fluoscout/ (filter sets are from Chroma, so may be simpler to use Chroma’s web site)

BD Biosciences http://www.bdbiosciences.com/research/multicolor/spectrum_viewer/index.jsp

Most of the confocal microscope companies have spectral viewers in their software. Zeiss ZEN acknowledges PubSpectra as the source of data.

Re-using data: This 2006 paper includes a section,

Data Is Not Copyrightable During the course of developing this data, one of us had an epiphany while reading in Lessig (18) about a U.S. Supreme Court decision: data is not subject to copyright (14). Text and commentary about Feist can be found on many legal web sites by doing a Google search. Indeed, the broad availability of the text of Supreme Court decisions is because they are not subject to copyright. The Feist decision reaffirmed the U.S. Copyright act of 1976 that "there can be no copyright in facts". The basis for the Feist decision can be found in the U.S. Constitution. 14. Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co. 1991;499 U.S. 340. 18. Lessig L. The Future of Ideas. New York: Random House; 2001. p 368. For those interested in reference 17, Multi-Probe Microscopy, it is available for download at http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/2/

Now in 2013, I want to reinforce in this PubMed Comment, that: 1. Data is not copyrightable (in the United States). 2. I encourage re-use of PubSpectra instead of you starting from scratch. 3. If anyone wants to "take over" adding data, please go ahead and do so. I would love for someone to find money and organizational skills to set up a village in India or China - or downtown Troy NY or Detroit MI - to hire people to unscan spectra graphs, and add it to "New PubSpectra".

On 2013 Nov 15, George McNamara commented:

The PubSpectra dataset of over 2,000 fluorescence spectra is now (2013) downloadable in the Excel XLSX file inside a zip archive downloadable from

http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/9/

The Boswell spectra graphing site described in this paper is defunct and has been replaced by Urs Utzinger and Carl Boswell's University of Arizona Spectra site

http://www.spectra.arizona.edu/

Urs has added additional spectra - especially 2-photon excitation spectra - to his web site.

Several vendors have spectral graphing sites, including (but not limited to)

http://www.semrock.com/searchlight-welcome.aspx

http://www.chroma.com/spectra-viewer

LifeTech/Invitrogen/Molecular Probes http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/life-science/cell-analysis/labeling-chemistry/fluorescence-spectraviewer.html instructions: http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/references/molecular-probes-the-handbook/technical-notes-and-product-highlights/using-the-fluorescence-spectraviewer.html

Leica http://www.leica-microsystems.com/fluoscout/ (filter sets are from Chroma, so may be simpler to use Chroma’s web site)

BD Biosciences http://www.bdbiosciences.com/research/multicolor/spectrum_viewer/index.jsp

Most of the confocal microscope companies have spectral viewers in their software. Zeiss ZEN acknowledges PubSpectra as the source of data.

Re-using data: This 2006 paper includes a section,

Data Is Not Copyrightable During the course of developing this data, one of us had an epiphany while reading in Lessig (18) about a U.S. Supreme Court decision: data is not subject to copyright (14). Text and commentary about Feist can be found on many legal web sites by doing a Google search. Indeed, the broad availability of the text of Supreme Court decisions is because they are not subject to copyright. The Feist decision reaffirmed the U.S. Copyright act of 1976 that "there can be no copyright in facts". The basis for the Feist decision can be found in the U.S. Constitution. 14. Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co. 1991;499 U.S. 340. 18. Lessig L. The Future of Ideas. New York: Random House; 2001. p 368. For those interested in reference 17, Multi-Probe Microscopy, it is available for download at http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/2/

Now in 2013, I want to reinforce in this PubMed Comment, that: 1. Data is not copyrightable (in the United States). 2. I encourage re-use of PubSpectra instead of you starting from scratch. 3. If anyone wants to "take over" adding data, please go ahead and do so. I would love for someone to find money and organizational skills to set up a village in India or China - or downtown Troy NY or Detroit MI - to hire people to unscan spectra graphs, and add it to "New PubSpectra".