Editorial Towards BioDBcore: a community-defined information specification for biological databases
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Pascale Gaudet*, Amos Bairoch, Dawn Field, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Chris Taylor, Teresa K. Attwood, Alex Bateman, Judith A. Blake, Carol J. Bult, J. Michael Cherry, Rex L. Chisholm, Guy Cochrane, Charles E. Cook, Janan T. Eppig, Michael Y. Galperin, Robert Gentleman, Carole A. Goble, Takashi Gojobori, John M. Hancock, Douglas G. Howe, Tadashi Imanishi, Janet Kelso, David Landsman, Suzanna E. Lewis, Ilene Karsch Mizrachi, Sandra Orchard, B.F. Francis Ouellette, Shoba Ranganathan, Lorna Richardson, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Paul N. Schofield, Damian Smedley, Christopher Southan, Tin W. Tan, Tatiana Tatusova, Patricia L. Whetzel, Owen White, Chisato Yamasaki and on behalf of the BioDBCore
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