[Annotation] [Biocurator] possible data submission at publication model

[Lukasz Salwinski]

Judith Blake wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> We do not expect authors to understand or be able to easily pick the 
> right term from an controlled vocabulary such as the GO.  Their 
> colloquial terminology will, we think, be pretty easily interpreted by 
> trained curators who are biologists skilled in the use of bio-ontologies.
> 
> The primary and highly useful aspect of this approach is the indexing of 
> the paper by taxon ID and geneID.  This is a royal hassle for curators 
> to have to do and something the authors should have at hand. 
> 
> Judy

exactly. taxon and gene/protein/et id would be the most useful
outcome. I would think about all the annotation more as an incentive
for the authors so that they feel like they provide something useful...
I wouldn't mind sifting through mostly useless annotation terms as
long as I'd have a guarantee each and every paper comes with a complete
and true list of what exactly proteins/genes the paper is about - going
through third level of 'as described in...' that ends with 'The authors
would like to thank ... for providing ... plasmid' is no fun :o[
lukasz


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