IMG ER: a system for microbial genome annotation expert review and curation
Author(s) -
Victor Markowitz,
Konstantinos Mavromatis,
Natalia Ivanova,
I-Min A. Chen,
Ken Chu,
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp393
Subject(s) - annotation , genome , img , computer science , bacterial genome size , computational biology , pipeline (software) , biology , gene , genetics , artificial intelligence , operating system , programming language
A rapidly increasing number of microbial genomes are sequenced by organizations worldwide and are eventually included into various public genome data resources. The quality of the annotations depends largely on the original dataset providers, with erroneous or incomplete annotations often carried over into the public resources and difficult to correct.
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