Submissions tagged with biocuration
(51 documents)
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
Developing ontologies in decentralised settings
This paper addresses two research questions: “How should a well-engineered methodology facilitate the development of ontologies within communities of practice?” and “What methodology should be used…
Received 08 May 2009 07:51 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
IUPHAR-DB: An Expert-Curated, Peer-Reviewed Database of Receptors and Ion Channels
The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology database (IUPHAR-DB) integrates peer-reviewed pharmacological, chemical, genetic, functional and anatomical information on the 354 non-sen…
Received 07 May 2009 15:50 UTC; Posted 07 May 2009
Posted to: Pharmacology, Bioinformatics
Present and future of proteomics data curation at the PRIDE database
Significant progress has been made in improving the accessibility and utility of the large amounts of generated high-throughput proteomics data by the introduction of publicly available proteomics …
Received 05 May 2009 17:45 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Bioinformatics
The GABI Primary Database: GABIPD – Integration of Plant ‘Omics’-Data in Gene Context
GabiPD (http://www.gabipd.org/) at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology constitutes a repository and analysis platform of genomic, transcriptomic, proteom…
Received 04 May 2009 16:15 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
DDBJ Activities: Contribution to the Research in Information Biology
DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan; http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ its database activities in 1986. From the beginning, DDBJ has been one of INSDC (International Nucleoti…
Received 01 May 2009 07:33 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
UniProt in RDF: Tackling Data Integration and Distributed Annotation with the Semantic Web
The UniProt knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is a comprehensive repository of protein sequence and annotation data. We collect information from the scientific literature and other databases and provide li…
Received 28 April 2009 13:14 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Plant Metabolic Pathways in MetaCyc and SolCyc
MetaCyc is a metabolic encyclopedia of experimentally validated biochemical pathways curated from scientific literature, that spans all organisms, with an emphasis on plants and microbes. The Pathw…
Received 28 April 2009 12:38 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Curating Genetic Association Literature for Common Diseases
Papers describing genetic associations with common diseases are currently being published at a rapid rate. These new papers add to an already large body of literature which includes candidate gene …
Received 24 April 2009 17:57 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, 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
