Members:
Lisa Harper (MaizeGDB, Chair); Tanya Berardini (TAIR, Co-Chair); Leonore Reiser (TAIR); Jodi Humann (MainLab Databases), Nathan Dunn (Apollo); Pankaj Jaiswal (Reactome)
Mission:
Identify and describe the curation practices across AgBioData Databases. Establish a standard minimum level of information manually curated from literature, in regards to genes, phenotypes, experiments, etc.
- Continue regular communication between biocurators of different databases.
- Adopt existing or contribute to developing new Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations recommendations for each curated data type.
- Share data curation templates.
- Recommend that funding agencies require data and metadata submission to public resources as a requirement for funding.
- Recommend that publishers require data and metadata submission to public resource as a requirement for publication.
- Databases should encourage and facilitate use of persistent digital identifiers by data generators.
- Report errors and omissions of data to authors, editors, databases and publishers.
- Work toward increasing the visibility of biocurators and what they contribute to the research community.
- Provide training for researchers on responsible data management.
- Provide post-graduate training in biocuration.
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