RT Journal
A1 Elsik, Christine G.
A1 Worley, Kim C.
A1 Zhang, Lan
A1 Milshina, Natalia V.
A1 Jiang, Huaiyang
A1 Reese, Justin T.
A1 Childs, Kevin L.
A1 Venkatraman, Anand
A1 Dickens, C. Michael
A1 Weinstock, George M.
A1 Gibbs, Richard A.
T1 Community annotation: Procedures, protocols, and supporting tools
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2006 
FD November 01 
VO 16 
IS 10 
SP 000 
OP 000 
DO 10.1101/gr.5580606 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2006/10/25/gr.5580606.abstract 
AB Investigators at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (BCM–HGSC) and BeeBase organized a community-wide effort to manually annotate the honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome. Although various strategies for manual annotation have been used in the past, the value of dispersed community annotation has not yet been demonstrated. Here we make a case for the merit of dispersed community annotation. We present annotation procedures, standard protocols, and tools used for sequence analysis, data submission, and data management. We also report lessons learned from this dispersed community annotation effort for a metazoan genome.