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Everything about Biocuration
Field dedicated to organizing and structuring biomedical data
Biocuration is the field of life sciences dedicated to organizing biomedical data, information and knowledge into structured formats, such as spreadsheets, tables and knowledge graphs. The biocuration of biomedical knowledge is made possible by the cooperative work of biocurators, software developers and bioinformaticians and is at the base of the work of biological databases. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BiocurationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: IMGT® Biocuration and Analysis of the Rhesus Monkey IG LociInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Annual report and financial statementsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The future of biocurationCited 594 times
- Go sideways: Saccharomyces Genome DatabaseA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Model organism databaseA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The organization, representation and making accessible of biological data to both humans and computers
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The future of biocuration
PubTator: a web-based text mining tool for assisting biocuration
OneDep: Unified wwPDB System for Deposition, Biocuration, and Validation of Macromolecular Structures in the PDB Archive
Text mining for the biocuration workflow
Biocuration: Distilling data into knowledge
Biocurators and Biocuration: surveying the 21st century challenges
Improved annotation of the insect vector of citrus greening disease: biocuration by a diverse genomics community
Worldwide Protein Data Bank biocuration supporting open access to high-quality 3D structural biology data
🆕 Influential since 2022
IMGT® Biocuration and Analysis of the Rhesus Monkey IG Loci
Biocuration of a Transcription Factors Network Involved in Submergence Tolerance during Seed Germination and Coleoptile Elongation in Rice (Oryza sativa)
Care, collaboration, and service in academic data work: biocuration as ‘academia otherwise’
Working in biocuration: contemporary experiences and perspectives
Leveraging generative AI to assist biocuration of medical actions for rare disease
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Annual report and financial statementsBiocure Holdings PLC.
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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