Biocurators and biocuration: Surveying the 21st century challenges

Database

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Burge, Sarah ^a,b   Attwood, Teresa K ^c   Bateman, Alex ^b   Berardini, Tanya Z ^d   Cherry, Michael ^e   O'Donovan, Claire ^a,b   Xenarios, Loannis ^f   Gaudet, Pascale ^g  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d Arabidopsis Information Resource   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Swiss Prot Group   (Switzerland)

^g SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC;

EID: 84862266214     PISSN: 17580463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/database/bar059     Document Type: Article

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