Bringing Biocuration to China

• 作 者: Zhang Zhang Weimin Zhu Jingchu
• 机 构: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences,College of
• 出 处: 基因组蛋白质组与生物信息学报（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2004年期
• 关键词: Biocuration Integration Big data Database

Biocuration involves adding value to biomedical data by the processes of standardiza-tion, quality control and information transferring (also known as data annotation). It enhances data interoperability and consistency, and is critical in translating biomedical data into scientific discovery. Although China is becoming a leading scientific data producer, biocuration is still very new to the Chinese biomedical data community. In fact, there currently lacks an equivalent acknowledged word in Chinese for the word ‘‘curation”. Here we propose its Chinese translation as‘‘审编”(Pinyin:shen bian), based on its implied meanings taken by biomedical data community. The 8th International Biocuration Conference to be held in China (http://biocuration2015.tilsi.org) next year bears the potential to raise the general awareness in China of the significant role of biocuration in scientific discovery. However, challenges are ahead in its implementation.