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The future of biocuration

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To thrive, the field that links biologists and their data urgently needs structure, recognition and support.

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  1. The Zebrafish Information Network, 5291 University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403-5291, Oregon, USA

    Doug Howe

  2. Saccharomyces and Candida Genome Databases, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305-5120, California, USA

    Maria Costanzo

  3. dictyBase, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 11-175, 60611, Illinois, USA

    Petra Fey

  4. Centre for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Yata, 411-8540, Mishima, Japan

    Takashi Gojobori

  5. J. Craig Venter Institute, Applied Bioinformatics, Rockville, 20850, Maryland, USA

    Linda Hannick

  6. South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, 7535, South Africa

    Winston Hide

  7. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Winston Hide

  8. Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, 04609, USA

    David P. Hill

  9. Scientific Databases and Visualization, EML Research GmbH, Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, D-69118, Germany

    Renate Kania

  10. Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

    Mary Schaeffer

  11. United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Genetics Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, Columbia, 65211-7020, Missouri, USA

    Mary Schaeffer

  12. FlyBase, Harvard University, Cambridge, 02138, Massachusetts, USA

    Susan St Pierre

  13. Rat Genome Database, Bioinformatics Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, 53226, Wisconsin, USA

    Simon Twigger

  14. Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21201, Maryland, USA

    Owen White

  15. Department of Plant Biology, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Seung Yon Rhee

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Howe, D., Costanzo, M., Fey, P. et al. The future of biocuration. Nature 455, 47–50 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455047a

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