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. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D11-4.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq1168. Epub 2010 Nov 21.

COMBREX: a project to accelerate the functional annotation of prokaryotic genomes

Richard J Roberts  1 , Yi-Chien Chang, Zhenjun Hu, John N Rachlin, Brian P Anton, Revonda M Pokrzywa, Han-Pil Choi, Lina L Faller, Jyotsna Guleria, Genevieve Housman, Niels Klitgord, Varun Mazumdar, Mark G McGettrick, Lais Osmani, Rajeswari Swaminathan, Kevin R Tao, Stan Letovsky, Dennis Vitkup, Daniel Segrè, Steven L Salzberg, Charles Delisi, Martin Steffen, Simon Kasif
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COMBREX: a project to accelerate the functional annotation of prokaryotic genomes

Richard J Roberts et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan.

Abstract

COMBREX (http://combrex.bu.edu) is a project to increase the speed of the functional annotation of new bacterial and archaeal genomes. It consists of a database of functional predictions produced by computational biologists and a mechanism for experimental biochemists to bid for the validation of those predictions. Small grants are available to support successful bids.

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