Sequencing solution: use volunteer annotators organized via Internet

genome project began in 1997, onequestion facing us was how best toannotate gene descriptions and otherinformation.We decided to take acommunity approach, in an attempt toimprove the quality of annotation and to use the resources of all those researchers working with this versatilepathogenic bacterium. Our results support aspects of ‘openannotation’ approaches for the humangenome, as described in Correspondence