Shining a light on more bogus bioinformatics acronyms
Courtesy of an anonymous tip off…
There is a new bioinformatics tool that was described in a recently published BMC Genomics article. Here is the full name of the tool with any capitalization removed:
- automated tool for bacterial genome annotation comparison
So can you guess what acronym/name was extracted from this description?
- ATBGAC?
- AutoBGA
- BGAC?
No. The JABBA-award-winning name of this tool is as follows:
This name really isn't helped by the fact that it is shown as follows in the journal article title (with the G of 'Genome' also capitalized):
- BEACON: automated tool for Bacterial GEnome Annotation ComparisON