Collaborative annotation of genes and proteins between UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and dictyBase
Author(s) -
Pascale Gaudet,
Lydie Lane,
Petra Fey,
Alan Bridge,
Sylvain Poux,
Andrea Auchincloss,
Kristian B. Axelsen,
S. Braconi Quintaje,
Emmanuel Boutet,
Patrick O. Brown,
Elisabeth Coudert,
Ruchira S. Datta,
Wanessa C Lima,
Tânia Lima,
Séverine Duvaud,
Nathalie FarriolMathis,
Serenella Ferro Rojas,
Marc Feuermann,
Alain Gateau,
Ursula Hinz,
Chantal Hulo,
Joachim James,
Silvia Jiménez,
Florence Jungo,
G. Keller,
Philippe Le Mercier,
Damien Lieberherr,
M. Moinat,
A. N. NIKOL'SKAYA,
Ivo Pedruzzi,
Catherine Rivoire,
Bernd Roechert,
Michel Schneider,
Eleanor Stanley,
Michael Tognolli,
Kimmen Sjölander,
Lydie Bougueleret,
Rex L. Chisholm,
Amos Bairoch
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
database
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.406
H-Index - 62
ISSN - 1758-0463
DOI - 10.1093/database/bap016
Subject(s) - uniprot , annotation , dictyostelium discoideum , computational biology , gene , organism , accession number (library science) , computer science , biology , world wide web , bioinformatics , genetics , genbank
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, a curated protein database, and dictyBase, the Model Organism Database for Dictyostelium discoideum, have established a collaboration to improve data sharing. One of the major steps in this effort was the 'Dicty annotation marathon', a week-long exercise with 30 annotators aimed at achieving a major increase in the number of D. discoideum proteins represented in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. The marathon led to the annotation of over 1000 D. discoideum proteins in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. Concomitantly, there were a large number of updates in dictyBase concerning gene symbols, protein names and gene models. This exercise demonstrates how UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot can work in very close cooperation with model organism databases and how the annotation of proteins can be accelerated through those collaborations
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