Targeted journal curation as a method to improve data currency at the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database.

ABSTRACT: The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) is a public resource that promotes understanding about the effects of environmental chemicals on human health. CTD biocurators read the scientific literature and manually curate a triad of chemical-gene, chemical-disease and gene-disease interactions. Typically, articles for CTD are selected using a chemical-centric approach by querying PubMed to retrieve a corpus containing the chemical of interest. Although this technique ensures adequate coverage of knowledge about the chemical (i.e. data completeness), it does not necessarily reflect the most current state of all toxicological research in the community at large (i.e. data currency). Keeping databases current with the most recent scientific results, as well as providing a rich historical bac

SUBMITTER: Davis AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3515863 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature