User:Pin Chun Chen/Genome mining/Aly Ross Peer Review

General info

 * Whose work are you reviewing?

Pin Chun Chen


 * Link to draft you're reviewing
 * User:Pin Chun Chen/Genome mining


 * Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)
 * N/A

Evaluate the drafted changes
Overall feedback: This is a complicated topic that I think you've summarized well! It would strengthen your article to provide a few more examples and a couple of references towards the beginning.


 * Lead:
 * Strong, gives a good overview of what we’ll be talking about.
 * The reader needs a little bit of background to fully understand the subject, it might help to link to resources on bioinformatics.
 * History
 * Focus -> focused (or began to focus?)
 * I think you can integrate the parenthetical into the sentence. E.g. “The GenBank database was established… sequences allowing for the collection, management, storage, and distribution of sequence     data.”
 * In the sentences "In the late 1990's..." should it be accessed or developed?
 * I think a list of some of the drugs that have been developed could be interesting. It might also be good to have a citation here.
 * Application
 * Is this sequential? ID of natural product followed by biosynthetic gene clusters and so on? If so, some transition words between the steps would help.
 * Natural product discovery
 * What is the benefit of a natural product over any other drug? Otherwise, I like this section!
 * Databases and tools
 * Good list! Maybe elaborate on each technique a little more?

Other than the edits listed above, there are a few grammatical errors. Generally, this would benefit from a little more content, but gives a good review of the topic. Good stuff Selene!