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Module 6.4 · Topic 1
Module 6.4 · Topic 1
Data that isn't shared hasn't actually reached anyone
Every sequencing project, every solved protein structure, every microarray experiment from the previous three modules generates real data. Left sitting on one researcher's own computer, unshared and unsearchable, none of it does anything for anyone else — including that researcher's own future work.
A researcher sequences a new gene and wants to know whether anything similar has ever been characterised before, anywhere in the world. Could this question be answered without a shared, searchable database?
GenBank and UniProt are best described as:
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