identified.) Glimmer was used by the DDBJ to re-annotate all bacterial genomes in the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases. It is also being used by this group to annotate viruses. Glimmer is part of the bacterial annotation pipeline at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which also maintains a web server for Glimmer, as do sites in Germany, Canada,. According to Google Scholar, as of early 2011 the original Glimmer article (Salzberg et al., 1998) has been cited 581 times, and the Glimmer 2.0 article (Delcher et al., 1999) has been cited 950 times. References External links The Glimmer home page at CCB, Johns Hopkins University, from which the software can be downloaded. Bioinformatics Markov models