MetaBase--the Wiki-database of Biological Databases

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2011 Dec 6

PMID 22139927

Citations 20

Authors

Dan M Bolser

Pierre-Yves Chibon

Nicolas Palopoli

Sungsam Gong

Daniel Jacob

Victoria Dominguez Del Angel

Dan Swan

Sebastian Bassi

Virginia Gonzalez

Prashanth Suravajhala

Seungwoo Hwang

Paolo Romano

Rob Edwards

Bryan Bishop

John Eargle

Timur Shtatland

Nicholas J Provart

Dave Clements

Daniel P Renfro

Daeui Bhak

Jong Bhak

Affiliations

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Abstract

Biology is generating more data than ever. As a result, there is an ever increasing number of publicly available databases that analyse, integrate and summarize the available data, providing an invaluable resource for the biological community. As this trend continues, there is a pressing need to organize, catalogue and rate these resources, so that the information they contain can be most effectively exploited. MetaBase (MB) (http://MetaDatabase.Org) is a community-curated database containing more than 2000 commonly used biological databases. Each entry is structured using templates and can carry various user comments and annotations. Entries can be searched, listed, browsed or queried. The database was created using the same MediaWiki technology that powers Wikipedia, allowing users to contribute on many different levels. The initial release of MB was derived from the content of the 2007 Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Database Issue. Since then, approximately 100 databases have been manually collected from the literature, and users have added information for over 240 databases. MB is synchronized annually with the static Molecular Biology Database Collection provided by NAR. To date, there have been 19 significant contributors to the project; each one is listed as an author here to highlight the community aspect of the project.

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