Everything about Web annotation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Web annotationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Tree Visualization By One Table (tvBOT): a web application for visualizing, modifying and annotating phylogenetic treesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Annotation Manager An Automated Web-Based Content Management System for Digital Libraries With Annotated BibliographiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: DAVID: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and functional annotation of gene lists (2021 update)Cited 6,404 times
5. Go sideways: Well-known URIA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Thing DescriptionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• DAVID: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and functional annotation of gene lists (2021 update)

  Brad T Sherman, Ming Hao, Ju Qiu · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 6,404 citations

• KOBAS 2.0: a web server for annotation and identification of enriched pathways and diseases

  Chen Xie, Xizeng Mao, Jiaju Huang · 2011 · Nucleic Acids Research · 4,481 citations

• LabelMe: A Database and Web-Based Tool for Image Annotation

  Bryan C. Russell, Antonio Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy · 2007 · International Journal of Computer Vision · 3,454 citations

• PANNZER2: a rapid functional annotation web server

  Petri Törönen, Alan Medlar, Liisa Holm · 2018 · Nucleic Acids Research · 530 citations

• Web Apollo: a web-based genomic annotation editing platform

  Eduardo Lee, Gregg A Helt, Justin T Reese · 2013 · Genome Biology · 351 citations

• Annotation of cell types (ACT): a convenient web server for cell type annotation

  Fei Quan, Xin Liang, Mingjiang Cheng · 2023 · Genome Medicine · 94 citations

• An Ergatis-based prokaryotic genome annotation web server

  Chris Hemmerich, Aaron Buechlein, Ram Podicheti · 2010 · Bioinformatics · 93 citations

• A study of multimedia annotation of Web-based materials

  Wu-Yuin Hwang, Chin-Yu Wang, Mike Sharples · 2007 · Computers & Education · 90 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Tree Visualization By One Table (tvBOT): a web application for visualizing, modifying and annotating phylogenetic trees

  Jianmin Xie, Yuerong Chen, Guanjing Cai · 2023 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,435 citations

• Bakta Web – rapid and standardized genome annotation on scalable infrastructures

  Sebastian Beyvers, Lukas Jelonek, Alexander Goesmann · 2025 · Nucleic Acids Research · 57 citations

• DAVID: a web server for functional annotation and functional enrichment analysis of gene lists (2025 update)

  Brad T Sherman, Ganesh Panzade, Thoai Dotrang · 2026 · Nucleic Acids Research · 29 citations

• PhaGAA: an integrated web server platform for phage genome annotation and analysis

  Jiawei Wu, Qingrui Liu, Min Li · 2023 · Bioinformatics · 18 citations

• Web Resources for SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Database, Annotation, Analysis and Variant Tracking

  Yexiao Cheng, Chengyang Ji, Hang-Yu Zhou · 2023 · Viruses · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Annotation Manager An Automated Web-Based Content Management System for Digital Libraries With Annotated BibliographiesFrenny Thomas · 2004
• Semantic Multimedia 4th International Conference On Semantic And Digital Media Technologies Samt 2009 Graz Austria December 24 2009 ProceedingsYiannis Kompatsiaris · 2010

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