Mining the Scientific Literature and Building a Pan-Echinoderm Gene Expression Database

管理组件-摘要 棘皮动物(海胆及其同类)是分析基因组控制的卓越模型。 胚胎发育。例如，最完整的基因调控网络(GRN) 我们对任何动物的发育最近都解决了海胆胚胎的问题。关于基因的数据 基因组和基因表达对现代发育生物学的所有方面都是基本的，包括 GRN生物学。有效获取这些数据不仅对棘皮动物研究成员至关重要 社区，但面向更广泛的受众，研究其他模式的发展过程(包括GRN) 系统。棘球蛋白的活动对于最终将这一科学信息应用于 人类发展和疾病。 模型生物体数据库通过整合和存储数据来提高研究价值， 集成不同类型的信息并以有用的方式表示它，并链接相似类型的数据 跨越有机体。棘球绦虫数据库的创建是为了提高与基因和 海胆和其他棘皮动物的基因组，并作为集中的、权威的资源 与这些重要的模式生物有关的信息。策划人部分(策划人)起着核心作用 通过识别、提取和组织科学数据，参与棘球虫数据库的总体任务。 在这个项目期间，策划人有两个首要目标：1)科学文献的整理 与棘皮动物发育有关，以及2)开发一个全面的基因表达数据库， 包括制定棘皮动物胚胎的解剖学本体论，作为 基因表达数据的注释。文献管理将允许用户有效地从 大量关于棘皮动物发育的已发表研究和已发表论文的参考书目将 作为所有精选生物数据的中坚力量。在最重要的班级中 生物学数据中与发育过程中基因表达的空间和时间模式有关的数据。 近年来，海胆和其他棘皮动物产生了丰富的基因表达数据， 迫切需要对这些数据进行整理，并开发新的工具，使科学家能够充分利用 利用这一信息。我们的管理工作将通过与Xenbase的合作得到支持， 它将提供一套非常适合我们需求的数据输入、存储和分析工具。穿过 它的活动，策划人将扩展棘球数据库的能力，从而极大地增强其效用 研究社区。

CURATION COMPONENT- ABSTRACT Echinoderms (sea urchins and their allies) are a pre-eminent model for analysis of the genomic control of embryonic development. For example, the most complete gene regulatory networks (GRNs) for development that we have for any animal have recently been solved for sea urchin embryos. Data on genes, genomes, and gene expression are fundamental to all aspects of modern developmental biology, including GRN biology. Effective access to these data has become vital not only to members of the echinoderm research community but to a broader audience studying developmental processes (including GRNs) in other model systems. The activities of Echinobase are essential in order to ultimately apply this scientific information to human development and disease. Model organism databases enhance the value of research by consolidating and storing data, integrating different types of information and representing it in useful ways, and linking similar kinds of data across organisms. Echinobase was created to enhance the value of scientific data related to the genes and genomes of sea urchins and other echinoderms and to serve as a centralized, definitive resource for information related to these important model organisms. The Curate Component (Curate) plays a central role in the overall mission of Echinobase by identifying, extracting, and organizing scientific data. During this project period, Curate has two overarching goals: 1) the curation of scientific literature related to echinoderm development, and 2) the development of a comprehensive gene expression database, including the formulation of an anatomical ontology for echinoderm embryos that will serve as a framework for the annotation of gene expression data. Literature curation will allow users to effectively mine information from the large body of published studies on echinoderm development, and the bibliography of published papers will serve as a backbone to which all curated biological data can be attributed. Among the most important classes of biological data are those pertaining to spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression during development. A wealth of gene expression data has been generated for sea urchins and other echinoderms in recent years, and there is a pressing need to curate these data and to develop new tools that will allow scientists to take full advantage of this information. Our curation efforts will be supported through a collaboration with Xenbase, which will provide a suite of data entry, storage, and analysis tools that are well-suited to our needs. Through its activities, Curate will extend the capabilities of Echinobase and thereby greatly enhance its utility to the research community.