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. 2020 Apr;18(2):91-103.
doi: 10.1016/j.gpb.2018.11.006. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

Quality Matters: Biocuration Experts on the Impact of Duplication and Other Data Quality Issues in Biological Databases

Qingyu Chen  1 , Ramona Britto  2 , Ivan Erill  3 , Constance J Jeffery  4 , Arthur Liberzon  5 , Michele Magrane  2 , Jun-Ichi Onami  6 , Marc Robinson-Rechavi  7 , Jana Sponarova  8 , Justin Zobel  9 , Karin Verspoor  10
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Quality Matters: Biocuration Experts on the Impact of Duplication and Other Data Quality Issues in Biological Databases

Qingyu Chen et al. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. 2020 Apr.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Biological analysis pipeline Three stages of a biological analysis pipeline, heavily involving biological databases, are presented. Pre-DB: the data collection and submission stage, where entity duplicates often matter. Within-DB: the data curation and visualization stage, where near-identical duplicates often matter. Post-DB: the data downloading and usage stage, where the definition of duplicates is use case dependent. DB: database.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Characteristics of duplicate records A. Duplicate types and number of participants who selected different duplicate types. B. Distribution of participants according to the number of duplicate types they selected. There are 21 participants in total.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Impacts of duplicate records A. The number of participants who believed duplication has impacts or not. B. A more detailed breakdown by type of impact, for those who believed duplication has impacts.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Solutions to duplicate records The X-axis represents the options to address duplication; the Y-axis represents the corresponding number of participants selecting that option.
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