ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2015
Biocuration with insufficient resources and fixed timelines.
Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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Abstract
Biological curation, or biocuration, is often studied from the perspective of creating and maintaining databases that have the goal of mapping and tracking certain areas of biology. However, much biocuration is, in fact, dedicated to finite and time-limited projects in which insufficient resources demand trade-offs. This typically more ephemeral type of curation is nonetheless of importance in biomedical research. Here, I propose a framework to understand such restricted curation projects from the point of view of return on curation (ROC), value, efficiency and productivity. Moreover, I suggest general strategies to optimize these curation efforts, such as the 'multiple strategies' approach, as well as a metric called overhead that can be used in the context of managing curation resources.
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