doi:10.1038/npre.2009.3249.1
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Studying Biocuration Workflows

Gully A. P. C. Burns1, Martin Krallinger2, Kevin Cohen3, Cathy Wu4 & Lynette Hirschman5

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  1. USC / Information Sciences Institute
  2. Autonomous University of Madrid
  3. University of Colorado Denver
  4. Georgetown University Medical Center
  5. Mitre Corporation

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Received 13 May 2009 17:48 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
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As the first phase of a knowledge engineering study of biocuration workflows, we performed a preliminary task-modeling exercise on seven separate bioinformatics systems. This involved constructing UML activity diagrams from detailed interviews with curators in order to understand the organization of the process the biocurators used to populate their system. The objective of this work was to identify common patterns within the workflows where we might apply text mining methods to accelerate curation. We compiled a number of workflows in a common format but were largely unable to consolidate these structures into a formal structure that facilitated comparison across workflows. At present, more work is needed to perform this task.

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3rd International Biocuration Conference
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3rd International Biocuration Conference, 16 April 2009

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Burns, Gully, Krallinger, Martin, Cohen, Kevin, Wu, Cathy, and Hirschman, Lynette. Studying Biocuration Workflows. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3249.1> (2009)

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