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Data Curation in Biology – Past, Present and Future
Data curation has been critical in the development of biology from Darwin and Linnaeus to UniProt, the careful collection and organisation of data has been the spring from which new hypotheses and …
Received 06 May 2009 08:51 UTC; Posted 12 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Changes in Scholarly Communication and the Potential Impact on Biocuration
Open access in particular and changes in on-line scholarship have the potential to impact biocuration which often involves translating information currently read in papers to knowledge that is foun…
Received 07 May 2009 15:07 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Maize gene review – A new on-line journal promotes community curation of phenotypes
The first formal phenotype summaries for maize can be found in early editions of theMaize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter (MNL). Prior to on-line databases, the MNLserved to systematize availab…
Received 04 May 2009 21:29 UTC; Posted 04 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Bringing Text Miners and Biologists Closer Together
The boosting of Biomedical Text Mining (BioTM) research in the last few years has led the way for finally bridging out the gap between text miners and biologists. Beyond the development of enhanced…
Received 27 April 2009 21:29 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Challenges in Whole-Genome Annotation of Pyrosequenced Fungal Genomes
Pyrosequencing technologies such as 454/Roche and Solexa/Illumina vastly lower the cost of nucleotide sequencing compared to the traditional Sanger method, and thus promise to greatly expand the nu…
Received 28 April 2009 02:30 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
Manual annotation of the mouse genome: HAVANA and EUCOMM
The European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis (EUCOMM) project aims to establish a mutant resource containing up to 13,000 conditional mouse mutations in C57BL/6N embryonic stem cells. As part of this…
Received 27 April 2009 09:12 UTC; Posted 27 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Expert Assertions Through Community Annotation Jamborees
Although there is significant optimism that community involvement can drive genome curation, results to date are disappointing. The Human Genome and Saccharomyces Genome Databases both tried commun…
Received 24 April 2009 15:33 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Protein Ontology and Community Curation
The Protein Ontology (PRO) is designed as a formal and well-principled Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry ontology for proteins. The components of PRO extend from the classification of protei…
Received 24 April 2009 12:34 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Increasing Access To Bioinformatics Resources: Increase Community Curation by Increasing Your Community
The amount of biological data has risen exponentially over the last decade. Along with this rise, the number and types of bioinformatics resources has risen such that the sheer number of bioinforma…
Received 23 April 2009 19:00 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Text mining for Swiss-Prot curation: A story of success and failure
A text mining group has been set up at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, with objective to develop and adapt information retrieval and extraction tools to help Swiss-Prot curators in their dai…
Received 24 April 2009 09:36 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
