DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, is now the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration

Gaudet, P.; Munoz-Torres, M.; Robinson-Rechavi, M.; Attwood, T.; Bateman, A.; Cherry, J. M.; Kania, R.; O'Donovan, C.; Yamasaki, C.

doi:10.1093/database/bat077

Title: DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, is now the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration

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The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) was created in 2009 specifically to promote biocuration, the product of multidisciplinary teams of database curators, software developers and bioinformaticians. Biocurators, whose work facilitates research and education across the life sciences, create and maintain a wide variety of online tools and databases, covering topics as diverse as biochemical structures, chromosomal features and phenotypes of mutant genes. These resources are now so essential to the biological community that databases have become integral to the daily work of most researchers. But biological databases are far from static: in addition to the need to constantly capture new knowledge (from the literature, from other databases, from analysis tools, etc.), data representation must also keep pace with current research— new data types must be modeled—and improved methods of data storage, representation and analysis must be continually developed. Nevertheless, such important efforts have not always been recognized, and have often not been published in full, owing to the lack of a suitable journal.

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Gaudet, P. ^[1]; Munoz-Torres, M. ^[2]; Robinson-Rechavi, M. ^[3]; Attwood, T. ^[4]; Bateman, A. ^[5]; Cherry, J. M. ^[6]; Kania, R. ^[7]; O'Donovan, C. ^[5]; Yamasaki, C. ^[8]

Swiss Inst. of Bioformatics, Geneva (Switzerland)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Swiss Inst. of Bioformatics, Geneva (Switzerland); Univ. of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom)
European Bioinformatics Inst., Hinxton (United Kingdom)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Genetics
Heidelberg Inst. for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg (Germany)
National Inst. of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), Osaka (Japan)

Publication Date:: Fri Dec 06 00:00:00 EST 2013

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1629599

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Database

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 2013; Journal Issue: 0; Journal ID: ISSN 1758-0463

Publisher:: Oxford University Press - International Society for Biocuration

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

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                    Gaudet, P., Munoz-Torres, M., Robinson-Rechavi, M., Attwood, T., Bateman, A., Cherry, J. M., Kania, R., O'Donovan, C., and Yamasaki, C. DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, is now the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration.  United States: N. p., 2013. 
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                    Gaudet, P., Munoz-Torres, M., Robinson-Rechavi, M., Attwood, T., Bateman, A., Cherry, J. M., Kania, R., O'Donovan, C., & Yamasaki, C. DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, is now the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bat077

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                    Gaudet, P., Munoz-Torres, M., Robinson-Rechavi, M., Attwood, T., Bateman, A., Cherry, J. M., Kania, R., O'Donovan, C., and Yamasaki, C. Fri .  
"DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, is now the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bat077.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1629599.

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  title        = {DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, is now the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration},

  author       = {Gaudet, P. and Munoz-Torres, M. and Robinson-Rechavi, M. and Attwood, T. and Bateman, A. and Cherry, J. M. and Kania, R. and O'Donovan, C. and Yamasaki, C.},

  abstractNote = {The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) was created in 2009 specifically to promote biocuration, the product of multidisciplinary teams of database curators, software developers and bioinformaticians. Biocurators, whose work facilitates research and education across the life sciences, create and maintain a wide variety of online tools and databases, covering topics as diverse as biochemical structures, chromosomal features and phenotypes of mutant genes. These resources are now so essential to the biological community that databases have become integral to the daily work of most researchers. But biological databases are far from static: in addition to the need to constantly capture new knowledge (from the literature, from other databases, from analysis tools, etc.), data representation must also keep pace with current research— new data types must be modeled—and improved methods of data storage, representation and analysis must be continually developed. Nevertheless, such important efforts have not always been recognized, and have often not been published in full, owing to the lack of a suitable journal.},

  doi          = {10.1093/database/bat077},

  journal      = {Database},

  number       = 0,

  volume       = 2013,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Dec 06 00:00:00 EST 2013},

  month        = {Fri Dec 06 00:00:00 EST 2013}

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