Reposted by Houseley Lab
Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.
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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects
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