The joys and sorrows of an ACEDB curator: 5 years with MycDB.
  
  Staffan Bergh, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Stockholm, Sweden
        (formerly at Biochemistry, KTH, Stockholm)
        (even more formerly at LGMB, Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  
  
  In 1992 I started building the mycobacterial database MycDB. At the time 
  this was a fairly courageous project, as no-one had much experience with 
  ACE at that time, and it had only been used for 'one-genome-at-the-time' 
  databases (C. elegans and Arabidopsis). In addition, I myself had very 
  little experience with Unix and ACE.
  
  Since then the available data has grown from one cosmid and some mapping 
  data to currently three separate genome projects, ACE has undergone three 
  major revisions, the World Wide Web has appeared as THE way of 
  distributing databases, and every single mycobacteriologist in the world 
  (including those in rural Ethiopia) has started to use computers and the 
  net. Just about the only thing that hasn't changed is the funding for the 
  database ...