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Nature 406, 933 (31 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35023188

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Sequencing solution: use volunteer annotators organized via Internet

Fiona S. L. Brinkman1, Robert E. W. Hancock1 & C. Kendal Stover2

  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
  2. PathoGenesis Corporation, 201 Elliott Ave West, Seattle, Washington 98119, USA

When the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome project began in 1997, one question facing us was how best to annotate gene descriptions and other information. We decided to take a community approach, in an attempt to improve the quality of annotation and to use the resources of all those researchers working with this versatile pathogenic bacterium.