[BiO BB] Sequence database errors

Martin Gollery marty.gollery at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 12:09:55 EDT 2005


Hi Iddo,
 I recall that Steven Brenner at Berkeley did an analysis about 4-5 years
ago. He was simply comparing the differences in annotation of comparable
databases, (which were considerable), thus avoiding the problem of figuring
out what the 'true' answer was.
 Marty

 On 10/8/05, Iddo Friedberg <idoerg at burnham.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any recent study regarding the scope of annotation errors in
> sequnece databases? Especially functional annotations? Something in the
> spirit of:
>
>
> Peer Bork: Powers and pitfalls in sequence analysis: the 70% hurdle.
> Genome Res. 2000 Apr;10(4):398-400
>
> Thanks,
>
> Iddo
>
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