Ten Simple Rules for Developing Public Biological Databases

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005128

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. 2016 Nov 10;12(11):e1005128.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005128. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Ten Simple Rules for Developing Public Biological Databases

Mohamed Helmy¹, Alexander Crits-Christoph², Gary D Bader¹

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¹ The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.

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PMCID: PMC5104318
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005128

Editorial

Ten Simple Rules for Developing Public Biological Databases

Mohamed Helmy et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016.

. 2016 Nov 10;12(11):e1005128.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005128. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Authors

Mohamed Helmy¹, Alexander Crits-Christoph², Gary D Bader¹

Affiliations

¹ The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.

PMID: 27832061
PMCID: PMC5104318
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005128

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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**Fig 1. How biological databases proliferate (adapted from https://xkcd.com/927/ and drawn using Comix I/O [http://cmx.io/]).**

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[1] Rigden DJ, Fernández-Suárez XM, Galperin MY. The 2016 database issue of Nucleic Acids Research and an updated molecular biology database collection. Nucleic Acids Res. Oxford University Press; 2016;44: D1–6. 10.1093/nar/gkv1356 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Rigden DJ, Fernández-Suárez XM, Galperin MY. The 2016 database issue of Nucleic Acids Research and an updated molecular biology database collection. Nucleic Acids Res. Oxford University Press; 2016;44: D1–6. 10.1093/nar/gkv1356 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Küntzer J, Eggle D, Klostermann S, Burtscher H. Human variation databases. Database (Oxford). 2010;2010: baq015. - PMC - PubMed

[4] Küntzer J, Eggle D, Klostermann S, Burtscher H. Human variation databases. Database (Oxford). 2010;2010: baq015. - PMC - PubMed

[5] Soussi T. Locus-specific databases in cancer: what future in a post-genomic era? The TP53 LSDB paradigm. Hum Mutat. 2014;35: 643–53. 10.1002/humu.22518 - DOI - PubMed

[6] Soussi T. Locus-specific databases in cancer: what future in a post-genomic era? The TP53 LSDB paradigm. Hum Mutat. 2014;35: 643–53. 10.1002/humu.22518 - DOI - PubMed

[7] Galperin MY, Rigden DJ, Fernández-Suárez XM. The 2015 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and molecular biology database collection. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015;43: D1–5. 10.1093/nar/gku1241 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Galperin MY, Rigden DJ, Fernández-Suárez XM. The 2015 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and molecular biology database collection. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015;43: D1–5. 10.1093/nar/gku1241 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Schultheiss SJ. Ten simple rules for providing a scientific Web resource. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011;7: e1001126 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001126 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Schultheiss SJ. Ten simple rules for providing a scientific Web resource. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011;7: e1001126 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001126 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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