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Biocuration of functional annotation at the European nucleotide archive [PDF]

open access: yesNucleic Acids Research, 2015
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is a repository for the submission, maintenance and presentation of nucleotide sequence data and related sample and experimental information. In this article we report on ENA in 2015 regarding general activity, notable published data sets and major achievements. This is followed by a focus
Richard Gibson   +20 more
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The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens

open access: yesGenome Biology, 2019
Background The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an ongoing, global, community-driven effort to evaluate and improve the computational annotation of protein function. Results Here, we report on the results of the third CAFA challenge,
Naihui Zhou   +166 more
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FamPlex: a resource for entity recognition and relationship resolution of human protein families and complexes in biomedical text mining

open access: yesBMC Bioinformatics, 2018
Background For automated reading of scientific publications to extract useful information about molecular mechanisms it is critical that genes, proteins and other entities be correctly associated with uniform identifiers, a process known as named entity ...
John A. Bachman   +2 more
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A sociology of biocuration: Mapping the landscape

open access: yes, 2022
Though there is an emergent literature exploring the history of work relating to biocuration (Leonelli 2016; Stevens 2013; Strasser 2019), and a number of studies that engage with its demographics and working conditions (Burge et al 2012; Holinski et al 2020; ISB 2017; Quaglia et al 2022), there has been limited sustained qualitative research into the ...
Holmer, Constantin, Davies, Sarah R.
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Digital BioCuration: A Question of Balance [PDF]

open access: yesNature Precedings, 2009
AbstractCuration 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 longevity of one dataset vs another, editing data records manually, performing or assessing computational processes over very large sets of data, and ...
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Genomic repeats, misassembly and reannotation: a case study with long-read resequencing of Porphyromonas gingivalis reference strains

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2018
Background Without knowledge of their genomic sequences, it is impossible to make functional models of the bacteria that make up human and animal microbiota.
Luis Acuña-Amador   +4 more
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Biocuration on the Bund

open access: yes, 2018
<em> GigaScience are regular attendees of the International Biocuration Conference, and you may have read our write-ups ups going back to 2012 edition.&nbsp;This year Biocuration is back behind the bamboo curtain, with the 11th conference held in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai from April 8th-11th and hosted by Fudan University.
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The Magic of Biocuration: Biocuration 2025 in Kansas City

open access: yes
The Biocuration 2025 meeting held in Kansas City USA at the Stowers Institute (April 5-9) was a well organized blend of in-person and virtual participants. As regular attendees and International Society of Biocuration (ISB) members (see previous reports) GigaScience Press was represented by two members of the GigaDB team, Chris Hunter and Bastien ...
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Knowledge engineering tools for reasoning with scientific observations and interpretations: a neural connectivity use case

open access: yesBMC Bioinformatics, 2011
Background We address the goal of curating observations from published experiments in a generalizable form; reasoning over these observations to generate interpretations and then querying this interpreted knowledge to supply the supporting evidence.
Bota Mihail   +4 more
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Textpresso Central: a customizable platform for searching, text mining, viewing, and curating biomedical literature

open access: yesBMC Bioinformatics, 2018
Background The biomedical literature continues to grow at a rapid pace, making the challenge of knowledge retrieval and extraction ever greater. Tools that provide a means to search and mine the full text of literature thus represent an important way by ...
H.-M. Müller   +3 more
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