Bioinformatics lecturers enlist undergrads to tackle DNA annotation challenge

In this week's issue of PLoS Biology, a team of Marseilles University lecturers led by Pascal Hingamp, describe the Annotathon - an innovative bioinformatics teaching approach that appeals to undergraduate biology students. With an increasing interest in metagenomics - the decoding of not just a single genome, but of an entire microbial ecosystem - the amount of data produced is more than a biologist can keep up with...

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