The Curse of Spammotation Lives!

High throughput sequencing of genomes is over twenty years old, which demanded the development of automated pipelines for annotating this data.  I've worked on such pipelines since the early 1990s, implementing them as a student and at two different corporate stops.  Indeed, we were reviewing results from my pipeline versus some of the other ones out there to see what can be done better.  And unfortunately, I've found infuriating problems with RefSeq entries annotated with NCBI's bacterial genome annotation pipeline.  Now I'm usually one to sing the praises of NCBI -- they are a key resource for biological research and they make available multiple spectacular public services freely to the entire world.  But I'm afraid this time I need to vent.Read more »
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