Archive for the ‘Biological Curation’ Category
Gladwell states as guidlines for a better omics data management
Universal application of high throughput omics technologies have enabled scientists to measure tens of thousands of data points in a single experiment. As a result of this scientific world has become deluged with data. This has greater implications the way [...]
Distributed Annotation of Molecular Interactions
Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is widely used communication protocol to implement decentralized annotation of genomic or protein sequences. DAS is built on a client–server architecture in which a single client integrates information from multiple servers. DAS provides two types of [...]
Biologist, Biocurators, Biolibrarians and Bioinformaticians
Here is a pending Biolibrarian proposal by Donaldson group at the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo. Proposal attempts to define a new kind of role ‘Biolibrarian’, which can fill the gap between Biologist and Biocurators. Proposal defines role of biolibrarian as [...]
Database : A New Oxford Journal About Biological Curation and Databases
Learning from the success of Nucleic Acid Research (NAR) database and server editions, Oxford university press has recently launched a new open access journal, Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation under leadership of computational biologist David Landsmann who [...]
Pair programming and biological curation
Image via Wikipedia Manual curation of peer reviewed biomedical articles demands utmost human intervention. Curation process is highly erroneous, especially when curators have to accomplish mammoth targets. In one of the recent studies published in Nature Methods, it was reveled [...]
Manually Curated Databases- How much reliable they are?
One of recent studies published in Nature Methods reveals that manually curated protein-protein interaction (PPI) datasets can be highly error-prone and possibly of lower quality than previously thought. Study determined that the portion of reported interactions that are valid (and [...]
