Crowdsourcing Protein Family Database Curation
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چکیده
We propose a novel method for crowdsourcing a protein family database. We discuss how we intend to identify novel groupings of proteins from user sequence similarity search, and how text mining will be applied to assist in annotation of these novel groupings, and more broadly as an enrichment of protein sequence similarity search results. We intend to use entity linking to identify literature which discusses proteins found in the search results, and present those publications which are likely to be the most useful to curators and sequence similarity search users alongside the sequence search results. Keywords—crowdsourcing; biocuration; databases
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