On the Problem of Sequence Leakage

I've been spending some time lately in an unfamiliar world: the eukaryotic section of NCBI's NR protein database.   I've been almost exclusively a bacterial guy for six years, but the other side of starbase had an interest in find homologs of a particular protein so I went diving for some.   That experience has reminded me of two serious issues with public sequence databases.  Tonight I'll dash off a bit about one; expect the other complaint to show up in the not-so-distant future. And tonight's lament is the increasing dispersion of sequence respositories.Read more »
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