Submissions tagged with biocuration
(51 documents)
The Relationship between the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) and the IntAct Molecular Interaction Databases
IntAct provides a freely available, open source database system and analysis tools for protein interaction data. All interactions are derived from literature curation or direct user submission and …
Received 03 November 2009 16:55 UTC; Posted 10 November 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Normalization and Matching of Chemical Compound Names
The identification of a chemical compound solely based on its name requires comprehensive chemical knowledge and often extensive searches in chemical databases. However, it is crucial for the integ…
Received 04 June 2009 16:05 UTC; Posted 05 June 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Bioinformatics
BrainGrab: Capturing Curator Expertise as Reusable Annotation Rules
Experienced biocurators can outperform automated systems on specific genes once they determine which pieces of evidence should drive annotation, and which annotations should be spread. The annotati…
Received 03 June 2009 15:35 UTC; Posted 03 June 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Digital BioCuration: A Question of Balance
Curation of biomedical data has come to encompass a broad range of activities and considerations, which include the building of digital archives, making decisions on the relative value and longevit…
Received 26 May 2009 15:37 UTC; Posted 26 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Bioinformatics
H-InvDB release 6, a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts
H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB; http://www.h-invitational.jp/) is an integrated database of human genes and transcripts. By extensive analyses of all human transcr…
Received 14 May 2009 02:31 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Studying Biocuration Workflows
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 …
Received 13 May 2009 17:48 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Biocuration Workflow Catalogue
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 …
Received 13 May 2009 18:00 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
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
Automatisation in UniProtKB / Swiss-Prot Annotation: New Rules and Tools
The development of next generation sequencing technologies promises a massive increase in the rate of submission of new protein sequences to sequence databases such as the Universal Protein Resourc…
Received 04 May 2009 11:27 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
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
