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DNA DATA: Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance
Elizabeth Pennisi
In a letter in this week's issue of Science, a group of mycologists urges GenBank to allow researchers who discover inaccuracies in the database to append corrections. GenBank, however, says such a fix would cause more problems than it solves.
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In Science Magazine
LETTERS
James C. Hu, Rodolfo Aramayo, Dan Bolser, Tyrrell Conway, Christine G. Elsik, Michael Gribskov, Thomas Kelder, Daisuke Kihara, Thomas F. Knight Jr., Alexander R. Pico, Deborah A. Siegele, Barry L. Wanner, and Roy D. Welch (6 June 2008) Science320 (5881), 1289b.
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Sequence-Based Identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Mucorales Species in the Clinical Mycology Laboratory: Where Are We and Where Should We Go from Here?.
S. A. Balajee, A. M. Borman, M. E. Brandt, J. Cano, M. Cuenca-Estrella, E. Dannaoui, J. Guarro, G. Haase, C. C. Kibbler, W. Meyer, et al. (2009)
J. Clin. Microbiol.
47, 877-884
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GenoQuery: a new querying module for functional annotation in a genomic warehouse.
F. Lemoine, B. Labedan, and C. Froidevaux (2008)
Bioinformatics
24, i322-i329
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