title: SEQanswers: an open access community for collaboratively decoding genomes.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The affordability of high-throughput sequencing has created an unprecedented surge in the use of genomic data in basic, translational and clinical research. The rapid evolution of sequencing technology, coupled with its broad adoption across biology and medicine, necessitates fast, collaborative interdisciplinary discussion. SEQanswers provides a real-time knowledge-sharing resource to address this need, covering experimental and computational aspects of sequencing and sequence analysis. Developers of popular analysis tools are among the >4000 active members, and ~40 peer-reviewed publications have referenced SEQanswers.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The SEQanswers community is freely accessible at http://SEQanswers.com/
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR.
authors.forename: Jing-Woei
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmieder
authors.forename: R Matthew
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Joann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Delenick
authors.forename: Eric C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Olivares
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mittelman
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D023281:Genomics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D054892:Metagenome