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Bases and spaces: resources on the web for accessing the draft human genome

Colin Semple

Author Affiliations

Medical Genetics Section, Department of Medical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Molecular Medicine Centre, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK

Genome Biology 2000, 1:reviews2001-reviews2001.5 doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-4-reviews2001

Published: 16 October 2000

Abstract

Much is expected of the draft human genome sequence, and yet there is no central resource to host the plethora of sequence and mapping information available. Consequently, finding the most useful and reliable human genome data and resources currently available on the web can be challenging, but is not impossible.