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Curation using a small base of literature

Posted by mtaschuk on 19 May 2009 at 10:50 GMT

choose to access only a fraction of it
http://ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204#article1.body1.sec2.p2

Curators of manually curated datasets and gold standards tend to only access a small body of work for confirmation of biological pathways, protein interactions, and the like. The literature overlaps seldomly between curators. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1284

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