http://blog.pansapiens.com/2009/08/03/a-proposal-for-encouraging-user-contributed-annotations-to-uniprot/ Ideas are cheap, implementation is expensive; act accordingly. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:34:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.pansapiens.com/2009/08/03/a-proposal-for-encouraging-user-contributed-annotations-to-uniprot/comment-page-1/#comment-3144 perry Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:42:05 +0000 http://blog.pansapiens.com/?p=143#comment-3144 I should note that I hadn't yet read Iddo Friedbergs excellent post <a href="http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2009/07/30/science-2-0-things-that-work-and-things-that-dont/" rel="nofollow">"Science 2.0: things that work and things that don’t" - Community annotation</a> when I wrote this post, however I think my proposal is quite compatible with the sentiments expressed there. In the forseeable fututre, we will still need professional curators to coordinate the bulk of annotation efforts and keep databases 'clean'. But with the right interfaces I think a lot more could be done to facilitate and encourage a community based annotation as an 'overlay' that can be subsequently integrated into the core database by trusted curators. I should note that I hadn’t yet read Iddo Friedbergs excellent post “Science 2.0: things that work and things that don’t” – Community annotation when I wrote this post, however I think my proposal is quite compatible with the sentiments expressed there. In the forseeable fututre, we will still need professional curators to coordinate the bulk of annotation efforts and keep databases ‘clean’. But with the right interfaces I think a lot more could be done to facilitate and encourage a community based annotation as an ‘overlay’ that can be subsequently integrated into the core database by trusted curators.

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