Metagenome annotation using a distributed grid of undergraduate students

Pascal Hingamp; Céline Brochier; Emmanuel Talla; Daniel Gautheret; Denis Thieffry; Carl Herrmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060296

Metagenome annotation using a distributed grid of undergraduate students

PLoS Biol. 2008 Nov 25;6(11):e296. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060296.

Authors

Pascal Hingamp¹, Céline Brochier, Emmanuel Talla, Daniel Gautheret, Denis Thieffry, Carl Herrmann

Affiliation

¹ Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Université de la Méditerranée, Information Génomiqueet Structurale, CNRS, UPR2589, Marseille, France. pascal.hingamp@univmed.fr

Abstract

The Annotathon is a novel bioinformatics teaching environment, where undergraduate students join in a community annotation effort. Besides being a rewarding educational tool, it holds the added promise of potentially useful scientific findings.

MeSH terms

Computational Biology / education*
Humans
Problem-Based Learning
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sequence Analysis, Protein
Students
Teaching / methods*