CyanoFactory Knowledge Base & Synthetic Biology - A Plea for Human Curated Bio-databases

Gabriel Kind, Eric Zuchantke, Röbbe Wünschiers

2015

Abstract

Nowadays, life science research is dominated by two conditions: interdisciplinarity and high-throughput. The former leads to highly diverse datasets from a data type point of view while high-throughput yields massive amounts of data. Both aspects are reflected by the byte-growth of public bio-databases and the sheer number of specialised databases or databases of databases (i.e. data warehouses). We provide an insight to the development of a biodata knowledge base (dubbed CyanoFactory KB) targeted to bio-engineers in the field of synthetic biology and exemplify the need for data type specific data curation and cross-linking. CyanoFactory KB is unique in incorporating experimental data from a broad range of scientific methods that are based on one strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The knowledge base can be accessed upon request via cyanofactory.hs-mittweida.de.

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Kind G., Zuchantke E. and Wünschiers R. (2015). CyanoFactory Knowledge Base & Synthetic Biology - A Plea for Human Curated Bio-databases . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-070-3, pages 237-242. DOI: 10.5220/0005285802370242


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@conference{bioinformatics15,
author={Gabriel Kind and Eric Zuchantke and Röbbe Wünschiers},
title={CyanoFactory Knowledge Base & Synthetic Biology - A Plea for Human Curated Bio-databases},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={237-242},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005285802370242},
isbn={978-989-758-070-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2015)
TI - CyanoFactory Knowledge Base & Synthetic Biology - A Plea for Human Curated Bio-databases
SN - 978-989-758-070-3
AU - Kind G.
AU - Zuchantke E.
AU - Wünschiers R.
PY - 2015
SP - 237
EP - 242
DO - 10.5220/0005285802370242