RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 WikiGenomes: an open Web application for community consumption and curation of gene annotation data in Wikidata
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 102046
DO 10.1101/102046
A1 Tim E. Putman
A1 Sebastien Lelong
A1 Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher
A1 Andra Waagmeester
A1 Colin Diesh
A1 Nathan Dunn
A1 Monica Munoz-Torres
A1 Gregory S. Stupp
A1 Andrew I. Su
A1 Benjamin M. Good
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/24/102046.abstract
AB With the advancement of genome sequencing technologies, new genomes are being sequenced daily. While these sequences are deposited in publicly available data warehouses, their functional and genomic annotations (beyond genes which are predicted automatically) mostly reside in the text of primary publications. Professional curators are hard at work extracting those annotations from the literature for the most studied organisms and depositing them in structured databases. However, the resources don’t exist to fund the comprehensive curation of the thousands of newly sequenced organisms in this manner. Here, we describe WikiGenomes (wikigenomes.org), a web application that facilitates the consumption and curation of genomic data by the entire scientific community. WikiGenomes is based on Wikidata, an openly editable knowledge graph with the goal of aggregating published knowledge into a free and open database. WikiGenomes empowers the individual genomic researcher to contribute their expertise to the curation effort and integrates the knowledge into Wikidata, enabling it to be accessed by anyone without restriction.