PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Winston A. Haynes
AU  - Aurelie Tomczak
AU  - Purvesh Khatri
TI  - Gene annotation bias impedes biomedical research
AID  - 10.1101/133108
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 133108
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/02/133108.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/02/133108.full
AB  - We found tremendous inequality across gene and protein annotation resources. We observe that this bias leads biomedical researchers to focus on richly annotated genes instead of those with the strongest molecular data. We advocate for researchers to reduce these biases by pursuing data-driven hypotheses.