On expert curation and scalability: UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot as a case study.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Biological knowledgebases, such as UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, constitute an essential component of daily scientific research by offering distilled, summarized and computable knowledge extracted from the literature by expert curators. While knowledgebases play an increasingly important role in the scientific community, their ability to keep up with the growth of biomedical literature is under scrutiny. Using UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot as a case study, we address this concern via multiple literature triage approaches.

Results

With the assistance of the PubTator text-mining tool, we tagged more than 10 000 articles to assess the ratio of papers relevant for curation. We first show that curators read and evaluate many more papers than they curate, and that measuring the number o

SUBMITTER: Poux S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860168 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature