TY - JOUR
T1 - MetaBase
T2 - The wiki-database of biological databases
AU - Bolser, Dan M.
AU - Chibon, Pierre-Yves
AU - Palopoli, Nicolas
AU - Gong, Sungsam
AU - Jacob, Daniel
AU - Dominguez Del Angel, Victoria
AU - Swan, Dan
AU - Bassi, Sebastian
AU - González, Virginia
AU - Suravajhala, Prashanth
AU - Hwang, Seungwoo
AU - Romano, Paolo
AU - Edwards, Rob
AU - Bishop, Bryan
AU - Eargle, John
AU - Shtatland, Timur
AU - Provart, Nicholas J.
AU - Clements, Dave
AU - Renfro, Daniel P.
AU - Bhak, Daeui
AU - Bhak, Jong
N1 - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1093/nar/gkr1099
DO - 10.1093/nar/gkr1099
M3 - Article
C2 - 22139927
AN - SCOPUS:84862237958
SN - 0305-1048
VL - 40
SP - D1250-D1254
JO - Nucleic Acids Research
JF - Nucleic Acids Research
IS - D1
ER -