BioStudies database - filling in the gaps between publications and structured datasets
| Main Author: | U. Sarkans |
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| Format: | info Proceeding Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/162783 |
Daftar Isi:
- BioStudies is a new database at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) that aims to fill the gap between publications on one hand, and data sets in the ?traditional?, structured data archives available to life scientists on the other hand. It is able to accept and make available data from new and emergent technologies where data is produced in formats not (yet) supported by the current EMBL-EBI data resources. BioStudies is also able to link to data in other databases, as well as accept what is usually treated as supplementary data, creating a data ?package? that can be associated with a publication.The basic BioStudies model is very simple and allows to describe files and external links associated with a study, organize information in hierarchies, and attach annotation as appropriate. A template mechanism can be used to tighten the requirements on study description, as agreed for a particular domain/community/project. Extra functionality can be added for specific purposes, such as the compound view in the Data Infrastructure for Chemical Safety (diXa) project. The user interface enables ontology-driven query expansion.Moving forward, we have started discussions with publishers on streamlining the treatment of publication-to-data links, and on providing workflows to paper authors making it easier to create datasets as a part of the manuscript preparation process, as well as to cite existing datasets. We hope that BioStudies will provide a significant contribution to effective data management, meeting the requirements of life sciences research in the future.