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Nature 409, 452 (25 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35054237

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Users must help to keep public databases correct

Francis Ouellette1

  1. Bioinformatics Core Facility, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, 950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4H4, Canada

With the continued growth of the public DNA sequence databases, and the recent addition of the 11,000,000,000th nucleotide to GenBank (including DDBJ, EMBL and GenBank), it is timely to assess how we use these databases.GenBank is the archive of all publicly available DNA, RNA and protein sequences.