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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2010

Finding and sharing: new approaches to registries of databases and services for the biomedical sciences.

Damian Smedley, Paul Schofield, Chao-Kung Chen, Vassilis Aidinis, Chrysanthi Ainali, Jonathan Bard, Rudi Balling, Ewan Birney, Andrew Blake, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff and 20 more

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Towards BioDBcore: a community-defined information specification for biological databases.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2011
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Damian SmedleyEuropean Bioinformatics Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA. damian@ebi.ac.uk
Paul Schofield
Chao-Kung Chen
Vassilis Aidinis
Chrysanthi Ainali
Jonathan Bard
Rudi Balling
Ewan Birney
Andrew Blake
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Anthony J Brookes
Gianni Cesareni
Christina Chandras
Janan Eppig
Paul Flicek
Georgios Gkoutos
Simon Greenaway
Michael Gruenberger
Jean-Karim Hériché
Andrew Lyall
Ann-Marie Mallon
Dawn Muddyman
Florian Reisinger
Martin Ringwald
Nadia Rosenthal
Klaus Schughart
Morris Swertz
Gudmundur A Thorisson
Michael Zouberakis
John M Hancock

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U142684171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the most efficient way to access and use them. Despite a rapid acceleration in uptake of syntactic and semantic standards for interoperability, it is still difficult for users to find which databases support the standards and interfaces that they need. To solve these problems, several groups are developing registries of databases that capture key metadata describing the biological scope, utility, accessibility, ease-of-use and existence of web services allowing interoperability between resources. Here, we describe some of these initiatives including a novel formalism, the Database Description Framework, for describing database operations and functionality and encouraging good database practise. We expect such approaches will result in improved discovery, uptake and utilization of data resources. Database URL: http://www.casimir.org.uk/casimir_ddf.

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Databases, FactualRegistriesBiological Science DisciplinesInformation DisseminationInformation Storage and RetrievalInternet

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PMID20627863
PMCPMC2911849

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