The Fission Yeast Community Curation Project

Comprehensive manual curation of the S. pombe literature is a primary goal of the PomBase project, and among the most important activities of the curation staff. Increasing numbers of new publications, and a large backlog of older papers, however, mean that complete literature curation will require input from the research community as well as the efforts of dedicated professional curators.

We plan to launch the PomBase Community Curation system early in 2012, which will allow researchers to contribute annotations directly to PomBase based on their publications. The new system will support GO, phenotype, interaction, and modification annotations in an intuitive online tool. Annotations made in the community curation system will be prioritized for inclusion inPomBase and will therefore also be more rapidly disseminated to other databases (e.g. GenBank/ENA/DDBJ, UniProt, BioGRID and GO).

For newly published papers, PomBase curators will email authors inviting them to participate, with specific instructions and links. Lab members are also welcome to evaluate existing annotations and create new annotations from past publications. Once the system is launched, this page will provide links to the online curation tool and its documentation, and will highlight the publications most recently curated by the community.

In the meantime, you can browse the results of the Community Curation Pilot Project that took place in 2009.