DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System

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dc.contributor.authorSalazar, Gustavoen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorJimenez, Rafaelen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Alexanderen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHermjakob, Henningen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMulder, Nicolaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBlake, Edwinen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-18T04:04:58Z
dc.date.available2015-11-18T04:04:58Z
dc.date.issued2011en_ZA
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Centralised resources such as GenBank and UniProt are perfect examples of the major international efforts that have been made to integrate and share biological information. However, additional data that adds value to these resources needs a simple and rapid route to public access. The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) provides an adequate environment to integrate genomic and proteomic information from multiple sources, making this information accessible to the community. DAS offers a way to distribute and access information but it does not provide domain experts with the mechanisms to participate in the curation process of the available biological entities and their annotations. RESULTS: We designed and developed a Collaborative Annotation System for proteins called DAS Writeback. DAS writeback is a protocol extension of DAS to provide the functionalities of adding, editing and deleting annotations. We implemented this new specification as extensions of both a DAS server and a DAS client. The architecture was designed with the involvement of the DAS community and it was improved after performing usability experiments emulating a real annotation task. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that DAS Writeback is effective, usable and will provide the appropriate environment for the creation and evolution of community protein annotation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSalazar, G., Jimenez, R., Garcia, A., Hermjakob, H., Mulder, N., & Blake, E. (2011). DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System. <i>BMC Bioinformatics</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15112en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSalazar, Gustavo, Rafael Jimenez, Alexander Garcia, Henning Hermjakob, Nicola Mulder, and Edwin Blake "DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System." <i>BMC Bioinformatics</i> (2011) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15112en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSalazar, G. A., Jimenez, R. C., Garcia, A., Hermjakob, H., Mulder, N., & Blake, E. (2011). DAS Writeback: a collaborative annotation system. BMC bioinformatics, 12(1), 143.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Salazar, Gustavo AU - Jimenez, Rafael AU - Garcia, Alexander AU - Hermjakob, Henning AU - Mulder, Nicola AU - Blake, Edwin AB - BACKGROUND: Centralised resources such as GenBank and UniProt are perfect examples of the major international efforts that have been made to integrate and share biological information. However, additional data that adds value to these resources needs a simple and rapid route to public access. The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) provides an adequate environment to integrate genomic and proteomic information from multiple sources, making this information accessible to the community. DAS offers a way to distribute and access information but it does not provide domain experts with the mechanisms to participate in the curation process of the available biological entities and their annotations. RESULTS: We designed and developed a Collaborative Annotation System for proteins called DAS Writeback. DAS writeback is a protocol extension of DAS to provide the functionalities of adding, editing and deleting annotations. We implemented this new specification as extensions of both a DAS server and a DAS client. The architecture was designed with the involvement of the DAS community and it was improved after performing usability experiments emulating a real annotation task. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that DAS Writeback is effective, usable and will provide the appropriate environment for the creation and evolution of community protein annotation. DA - 2011 DB - OpenUCT DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-12-143 DP - University of Cape Town J1 - BMC Bioinformatics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2011 T1 - DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System TI - DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15112 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/15112
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-143
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSalazar G, Jimenez R, Garcia A, Hermjakob H, Mulder N, Blake E. DAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation System. BMC Bioinformatics. 2011; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15112.en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltden_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licenseen_ZA
dc.rights.holder2011 Salazar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en_ZA
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0en_ZA
dc.sourceBMC Bioinformaticsen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/en_ZA
dc.subject.otherDistributed Annotation System (DAS)en_ZA
dc.subject.othergenomic and proteomic informationen_ZA
dc.titleDAS Writeback: A Collaborative Annotation Systemen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
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