Directly e-mailing authors of newly published papers encourages community curation.

Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
Stephanie M BuntFlyBase Consortium

Abstract

Much of the data within Model Organism Databases (MODs) comes from manual curation of the primary research literature. Given limited funding and an increasing density of published material, a significant challenge facing all MODs is how to efficiently and effectively prioritize the most relevant research papers for detailed curation. Here, we report recent improvements to the triaging process used by FlyBase. We describe an automated method to directly e-mail corresponding authors of new papers, requesting that they list the genes studied and indicate ('flag') the types of data described in the paper using an online tool. Based on the author-assigned flags, papers are then prioritized for detailed curation and channelled to appropriate curator teams for full data extraction. The overall response rate has been 44% and the flagging of data types by authors is sufficiently accurate for effective prioritization of papers. In summary, we have established a sustainable community curation program, with the result that FlyBase curators now spend less time triaging and can devote more effort to the specialized task of detailed data extraction. Database URL: http://flybase.org/

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Nov 20, 2012·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Peter McQuilton, UNKNOWN FlyBase Consortium
Nov 20, 2012·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Kimberly Van AukenUNKNOWN WormBase Consortium
Dec 12, 2012·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Allan Peter DavisCarolyn J Mattingly
Nov 6, 2012·Nucleic Acids Research·Steven J MarygoldUNKNOWN FlyBase consortium
Apr 10, 2014·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Juan Miguel CejuelaUNKNOWN FlyBase Consortium
Jul 19, 2013·International Review of Psychiatry·Deirdre Johnston
Oct 16, 2015·Nucleic Acids Research·Helen AttrillUNKNOWN FlyBase Consortium
Oct 19, 2013·Nucleic Acids Research·Zhang ZhangJun Yu
Sep 16, 2014·Genome Biology·Benjamin M GoodObi L Griffith
Mar 19, 2016·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Leonore ReiserEva Huala
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Nov 2, 2016·Nucleic Acids Research·L Sian GramatesUNKNOWN the FlyBase Consortium
Jan 22, 2020·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Giulia AntonazzoNicholas H Brown
May 1, 2020·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Antonia LockValerie Wood
Dec 28, 2016·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Peter D Karp
Mar 18, 2020·ELife·Andra WaagmeesterAndrew I Su
Mar 19, 2020·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Valerio ArnaboldiPaul W Sternberg
Nov 22, 2020·Nucleic Acids Research·Aoife LarkinUNKNOWN FlyBase Consortium
Nov 21, 2020·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Hong CuiJulian Starr

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