Biocuration: distilling data into knowledge by International Society for Biocuration

“…Strides have recently been made, but more awareness is needed of the essential role that biological data resources, including biocuration, play in maintaining and linking this ever-growing flood of data and information. …”

Biocuration - mapping resources and needs by Holinski, A, Burke, ML, Morgan, SL, McQuilton, P, Palagi, PM

“…However, they may not self-identify as biocurators, as they may be unaware of biocuration as a career path or because biocuration is only part of their role. …”

Overview of the interactive task in BioCreative V by Wang, Q, Abdul, SS, Almeida, L, Ananiadou, S, Balderas-Martınez, YI, Batista-Navarro, R, Campos, D, Chilton, L, Chou, H-J, Contreras, G, Cooper, L, Dai, H-J, Ferrell, B, Fluck, J, Gama-Castro, S, George, N, Gkoutos, G, Irin, AK, Jensen, LJ, Jimenez, S, Jue, TR, Keseler, I, Madan, S, Matos, S, McQuilton, P, Milacic, M, Mort, M, Natarajan, J, Pafilis, E, Pereira, E, Rao, S, Rinaldi, F, Rothfels, K, Salgado, D, Silva, RM, Singh, O, Stefancsik, R, Su, C-H, Subramani, S, Tadepally, HD, Tsaprouni, L, Vasilevsky, N, Wang, X, Chatr-Aryamontri, A, Laulederkind, SJF, Matis-Mitchell, S, McEntyre, J, Orchard, S, Pundir, S, Rodriguez-Esteban, R, Van Auken, K, Lu, Z, Schaeffer, M, Wu, CH, Hirschman, L, Arighi, CN

“…The proposed curation tasks are user-centric and formally evaluated by biocurators. In BioCreative V IAT, seven TM systems and 43 biocurators participated. …”

BioSharing: curated and crowd-sourced metadata standards, databases and data policies in the life sciences. by McQuilton, P, Gonzalez-Beltran, A, Rocca-Serra, P, Thurston, M, Lister, A, Maguire, E, Sansone, S

“…Driven by an international Advisory Board, the BioSharing user-base has grown by over 40% (by unique IP address), in the last year thanks to successful engagement with researchers, publishers, librarians, developers and other stakeholders via several routes, including a joint RDA/Force11 working group and a collaboration with the International Society for Biocuration. In this article, we describe BioSharing, with a particular focus on community-led curation.Database URL: https://www.biosharing.org.…”

BioSharing: curated and crowd-sourced metadata standards, databases and data policies in the life sciences. by McQuilton, P, Gonzalez-Beltran, A, Rocca-Serra, P, Thurston, M, Lister, A, Maguire, E, Sansone, S

“…Driven by an international Advisory Board, the BioSharing user-base has grown by over 40% (by unique IP address), in the last year thanks to successful engagement with researchers, publishers, librarians, developers and other stakeholders via several routes, including a joint RDA/Force11 working group and a collaboration with the International Society for Biocuration. In this article, we describe BioSharing, with a particular focus on community-led curation.Database URL: https://www.biosharing.org.…”

A rule-based ontological framework for the classification of molecules by Magka, D, Krötzsch, M, Horrocks, I

“…</p> <p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>: Our proposed methodology can form the basis of an ontology-mediated application to assist biocurators in the production of complete and error-free taxonomies. …”