Supporting community annotation and user collaboration in the integrated microbial genomes (IMG) system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The exponential growth of genomic data from next generation technologies renders traditional manual expert curation effort unsustainable. Many genomic systems have included community annotation tools to address the problem. Most of these systems adopted a "Wiki-based" approach to take advantage of existing wiki technologies, but encountered obstacles in issues such as usability, authorship recognition, information reliability and incentive for community participation.

Results

Here, we present a different approach, relying on tightly integrated method rather than "Wiki-based" method, to support community annotation and user collaboration in the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system. The IMG approach allows users to use existing IMG data warehouse and analysis t

SUBMITTER: Chen IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4847265 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature