Crowdsourcing human mutations

• Published in: Nature genetics Vol. 43; no. 4; p. 279
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.04.2011; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 706/648/479/702/129/2043; Agriculture; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cancer Research; Databases, Genetic; editorial; Gene Function; Gene mutations; Genetic Variation; Genome, Human; Genomes; Human Genetics; Human Genome Project; Humans; Management; Medical publishing; Mutation; Publishing; Services; United States

The first Human Variome microattribution review shows that data citation and publication credit can work as incentives for systematic curation of gene variant and phenotype data. Analysis of the formal assertions in both databases and journal articles argues for better separation of data structures...