Submissions tagged with annotation
(32 documents)
Standardization in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
Within the UniProt consortium, the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot knowledge base provides the international community with a stable, comprehensive, fully classified, richly and accurately annotated protein s…
Received 04 May 2009 09:41 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: 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
Broadening Pfam Protein Sequence Annotations
Pfam is a database of conserved protein families or domains commonly used for genome annotation and sequence classification. It comprises two parts: (1) Pfam-A families, which are fully annotated a…
Received 28 April 2009 13:26 UTC; Posted 28 April 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
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
Immunogenetic sequence annotation based on IMGT-ONTOLOGY
IMGT/LIGM-DB1 is the first and the largest IMGT® database2 in which are managed, analysed and annotated more than 136,000 immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) nucleotide sequences fro…
Received 24 April 2009 09:18 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Bioinformatics
GreenPhylDB: A Gene Family Database for plant functional Genomics
With the increasing number of genomes being sequenced, a major objective is to transfer accurate annotation from characterised proteins to uncharacterised sequences. Consequently, comparative genom…
Received 22 April 2009 14:39 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
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
