Curators Forum??  Mark Wilkinson markw at Wed Oct 6 06:47:29 EST
1999  Hello Group!  this question is not exactly ACEdb related,
but since the majority of you will be genome database curators
this seems an appropriate forum to post the question:  The
entire process of genome database curation seems a little
complex (I hear most of you laughing at this point).  Keeping
updated with changes to the EMBL, genbank, etc., making sure
that the sequence you have is the 'newest', ensuring your
publication list is up to date, weeding out duplicate entries,
ensuring that everything is consistent when a gene is re-named,
blah blah blah...  So, for curating-virgins like me, these
problems are enormous mountains - not just to solve them, but to
conceptually understand the depth of the problem itself!  (there
are without doubt problems that I have not even realized exist
so far!)  which leads me to the following question:  Is there a
'curators forum' on the net?  Or do you all belong to a mailing
list where you discuss thes