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How much does curation cost?

Author(s) -

Peter D. Karp

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

database

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.406

H-Index - 62

ISSN - 1758-0463

DOI - 10.1093/database/baw110

Subject(s) - data curation , publishing , cost effectiveness , computer science , cost estimate , data science , world wide web , business , political science , risk analysis (engineering) , economics , management , law

NIH administrators have recently expressed concerns about the cost of curation for biological databases. However, they did not articulate the exact costs of curation. Here we calculate the cost of biocuration of articles for the EcoCyc database as $219 per article over a 5-year period. That cost is 6-15% of the cost of open-access publication fees for publishing biomedical articles, and we estimate that cost is 0.088% of the cost of the overall research project that generated the experimental results. Thus, curation costs are small in an absolute sense, and represent a miniscule fraction of the cost of the research.

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