Towards Viral Genome Annotation Standards, Report from the 2010 NCBI Annotation Workshop

Viruses

James Rodney Brister¹  Yiming Bao¹  Carla Kuiken¹  Elliot J. Lefkowitz¹  Philippe Le Mercier¹  Raphael Leplae¹  Ramana Madupu¹  Richard H. Scheuermann¹  Seth Schobel¹  Donald Seto¹  Susmita Shrivastava¹  Peter Sterk¹  Qiandong Zeng¹  William Klimke¹ 

[1]¹National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

关键词: virus;    genome;    annotation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/v2102258

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

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