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Curators of the world unite: the International Society of Biocuration

BIOINFORMATICS (2010)

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BIOINFORMATICS

Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 991-991

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq101

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