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Nature 455, 590 (2 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455590b; Published online 1 October 2008

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Don't forget people and specimens that make the database

David Campbell1

  1. 425 Scientific Collections Building, Department of Biological Sciences, Biodiversity and Systematics, University of Alabama, Box 870345, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0345, USA
    Email: amblema@bama.ua.edu

Further to points raised in your Feature 'The future of biocuration' (Nature 455, 47–50; 2008), an example of the inadequate state of biocuration is to be found in the large number of entries in GenBank listed as "unpublished". In many cases, a quick online search of journal listings turns up the publication.

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