A crowdsourcing open platform for literature curation in UniProt

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001464
• Publication Date: 2021-12-06T18:27:09Z
• Authors: Yuqi Wang; Qinghua Wang; Hongzhan Huang; Wei Huang; Yongxing Chen; Peter B. McGarvey; Cathy H. Wu; Cecilia N. Arighi
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 570; QH301-705.5; Computational Biology; Proteins; Molecular Sequence Annotation; 576; 03 medical and health sciences; Literature; Stakeholder Participation; Community Page; Crowdsourcing; Humans; Amino Acid Sequence; Biology (General); Databases, Protein; Data Curation

The UniProt knowledgebase is a public database for protein sequence and function, covering the tree of life and over 220 million protein entries. Now, the whole community can use a new crowdsourcing annotation system to help scale up UniProt curation and receive proper attribution for their biocuration work.