导航景观:对当前病毒数据库的全面审查
Muriel Ritsch1,2, Noriko A Cassman1,2, Shahram Saghaei1,2
1RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Viruses
|September 28, 2023
概括
本研究审查了24个活跃的病毒数据库,评估它们的内容,功能和符合FAIR原则. 它旨在帮助用户选择合适的病毒资源,并协助数据库错误管理和遵守 FAIR 数据原则.
科学领域:
- 病毒学 病毒学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 数据科学数据科学数据科学
背景情况:
- 病毒在公共卫生,生态和农业方面至关重要,需要准确的识别和监测.
- 尽管技术进步,但对病毒多样性的理解尚不完整,这凸显了对全面病毒数据资源的需求.
- 病毒数据库对于访问病毒序列,注释和分析工具至关重要,但最近的审查缺乏.
研究的目的:
- 通过识别和评估活跃的病毒数据库,弥合病毒数据库审查的差距.
- 评估数据库的内容,功能和遵守FAIR (可查找,可访问,可互操作,可重复使用) 原则.
- 授权用户选择合适的病毒数据库,并帮助数据库在错误管理和提高 FAIR 合规性.
主要方法:
- 确定了24个活跃的病毒数据库.
- 进行了对数据库内容,功能和符合FAIR原则的广泛评估.
- 评估了五个全面的数据库目录的搜索功能,并审查了常见的数据错误 (分类学,序列等). ) 的情况.
主要成果:
- 提供了24个活跃病毒数据库的全面列表和评估.
- 详细评估了数据库目录搜索功能.
- 在病毒数据库中发现的常见错误进行了目录和讨论,并提供了解决方案.
结论:
- 这一审查有助于用户根据内容,功能和范围选择合适的病毒数据库.
- 这些发现将有助于病毒数据库改进错误管理,并加强它们对FAIR原则的遵守.
- 利用这些经过审查的病毒数据库对于推进病毒研究,理解进化和制定全球卫生安全战略至关重要.
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