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American Society for Microbiology, mSystems, 2(8), 2023
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01284-22
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A Schema for Digitized Surface Swab Site Metadata in Open-Source DNA Sequence Databases
Journal article published in 2023 by
Jingzhang Feng,
Devin Daeschel,
Damion Dooley 
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Emma Griffiths,
Marc Allard,
Ruth Timme ,
Yi Chen,
Abigail B. Snyder
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Emma Griffiths,
Marc Allard,
Ruth Timme ,
Yi Chen,
Abigail B. Snyder
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Abstract
The regular analysis of whole-genome sequence data in collections such as NCBI’s Pathogen Detection Database is used by many public health organizations to detect outbreaks of infectious disease. However, isolate metadata in these databases are often incomplete and of poor quality.