Building an efficient curation workflow for the Arabidopsis literature corpus.
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SUBMITTER: Li D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3515862 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Building an efficient curation workflow for the Arabidopsis literature corpus.
Li Donghui D Berardini Tanya Z TZ Muller Robert J RJ Huala Eva E
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation 20121206
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) is the model organism database (MOD) for Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant with a literature corpus of about 39 000 articles in PubMed, with over 4300 new articles added in 2011. We have developed a literature curation workflow incorporating both automated and manual elements to cope with this flood of new research articles. The current workflow can be divided into two phases: article selection and curation. Structured controlled vocabularies, such a ...[more]
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