title: Towards Viral Genome Annotation Standards, Report from the 2010 NCBI Annotation Workshop.
abstract: Improvements in DNA sequencing technologies portend a new era in virology and could possibly lead to a giant leap in our understanding of viral evolution and ecology. Yet, as viral genome sequences begin to fill the world's biological databases, it is critically important to recognize that the scientific promise of this era is dependent on consistent and comprehensive genome annotation. With this in mind, the NCBI Genome Annotation Workshop recently hosted a study group tasked with developing sequence, function, and metadata annotation standards for viral genomes. This report describes the issues involved in viral genome annotation and reviews policy recommendations presented at the NCBI Annotation Workshop.
authors: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors: James Rodney
authors: JR
authors: Brister
authors: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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authors: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
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authors: Kuiken
authors: Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35222, USA.
authors: Elliot J
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authors: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland.
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authors: Leplae
authors: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
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authors: Department of Pathology and Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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authors: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
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authors: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
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authors: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.
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authors: Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
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authors: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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authors: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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