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Biocuration Virtual Issue

DATABASE is pleased to have published the following articles originating from the International Biocurator Conference. Authors were invited to submit articles to DATABASE following the conference. The articles were then subject to the journal’s normal peer review process, and are collected together here as a ‘virtual issue’.

The goal of the Biocurator Conferences is ‘to create a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research’. Visit http://www.biocurator.org/conferences.shtml for more information.

Third International Biocurator Conference, Berlin, Germany, April 16–19, 2009 (papers submitted to and selected by DATABASE)

Meeting report: a workshop on Best Practices in Genome Annotation
Ramana Madupu, Lauren M. Brinkac, Jennifer Harrow, Laurens G. Wilming, Ulrike Böhme, Philippe Lamesch, and Linda I. Hannick
Database Vol. 2010, baq001; doi:10.1093/database/baq001
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MicroScope: a platform for microbial genome annotation and comparative genomics.
D. Vallenet, S. Engelen, D. Mornico, S. Cruveiller, L. Fleury, A. Lajus, Z. Rouy, D. Roche, G. Salvignol, C. Scarpelli, and C. Médigue
Database Vol. 2009, bap021; doi:10.1093/database/bap021
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Collaborative annotation of genes and proteins between UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and dictyBase
P. Gaudet, L. Lane, P. Fey, A. Bridge, S. Poux, A. Auchincloss, K. Axelsen, S. Braconi Quintaje, E. Boutet, P. Brown, E. Coudert, R.S. Datta, W.C. de Lima, T. de Oliveira Lima, S. Duvaud, N. Farriol-Mathis, S. Ferro Rojas, M. Feuermann, A. Gateau, U. Hinz, C. Hulo, J. James, S. Jimenez, F. Jungo, G. Keller, P. Lemercier, D. Lieberherr, M. Moinat, A. Nikolskaya, I. Pedruzzi, C. Rivoire, B. Roechert, M. Schneider, E. Stanley, M. Tognolli, K. Sjölander, L. Bougueleret, R.L. Chisholm, and A. Bairoch
Database Vol. 2009, bap016; doi:10.1093/database/bap016
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Integrating text mining into the MGI biocuration workflow
K.G. Dowell, M.S. McAndrews-Hill, D.P. Hill, H.J. Drabkin, and J.A. Blake
Database Vol. 2009, bap019; doi:10.1093/database/bap019
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QuickGO: A user tutorial for the web-based Gene Ontology browser
Rachael P. Huntley, David Binns, Emily Dimmer, Daniel Barrell, Claire O’Donovan, and Rolf Apweiler
Database Vol. 2009, bap010; doi:10.1093/database/bap010
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A large and accurate collection of peptidase cleavages in the MEROPS database
Neil D. Rawlings
Database Vol. 2009, bap015; doi:10.1093/database/bap015
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PDBWiki: added value through community annotation of the Protein Data Bank
Henning Stehr, Jose M. Duarte, Michael Lappe, Jong Bhak, and Dan M. Bolser
Database Vol. 2010, baq009; doi:10.1093/database/baq009
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