Reinhard Doelz (doelz at comp.bioz.unibas.ch) wrote (with a lot deleted):
: We could spend another XX M$ on both sides of the atlantic to have a
: staff of workers clean up the past, and cope with the flood of the future.
: But still, this wouldn't help. I think that there's something severely
: wrong with responsibilities. The researchers don't do what they should, namely
: take care of their own entries or areas, and correct the entries as appropriate.
: And, for the future, the genome projects should adopt slightly more
: responsibility for what they produce. Just dumping thousands of low-quality
: data entries to the databases, generated by robots, and complain afterwards
: doesn't help.
: Regards
: Reinhard Doelz
I like the idea that researchers should be responsible for their entries in
the databases (unfortunately not all of us have organized/clean/up-to-date
lab benches or offices and database entries might reflect that). I was
wondering what one should do when a competitor duplicates your entry or
a complete cDNA is sequenced for which there is a EST database entry.
How can the best sequences prevail.
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