Quality Matters: Biocuration Experts on the Impact of Duplication and Other Data Quality Issues in Biological Databases

• Qingyu Chen,
• Ramona Britto,
• Ivan Erill,
• Constance J. Jeffery,
• Arthur Liberzon,
• Michele Magrane,
• Jun-ichi Onami,
• Marc Robinson-Rechavi,
• Jana Sponarova,
• Justin Zobel,
• Karin Verspoor

Affiliations

Qingyu Chen

School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; Corresponding authors.

Ramona Britto

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

Ivan Erill

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

Constance J. Jeffery

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Arthur Liberzon

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Michele Magrane

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

Jun-ichi Onami

Japan Science and Technology Agency, National Bioscience Database Center, Tokyo 102-8666, Japan; National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan

Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Jana Sponarova

Nebion AG, 8048 Zurich, Switzerland

Justin Zobel

School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; Corresponding authors.

Karin Verspoor

School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; Corresponding authors.