Community Curation Enabling the research community to contribute annotations directly to WormBase Mary Ann Tuli

Why do we need Community Curation? Increasing number of papers Backlog of existing papers 

The Solution Changes in curation software & database infrastructure = more curation! We Need Your Help!

Community Curation System Easy to use. Autocomplete functions. Remembers you. Enforced standards across all forms.

Benefits to the Submitter You know your data best. Vested interest in public availability of data. Automated inclusion in the database. Attribution on public website.

Expedious Processing More Data in WormBase Benefits Whole Scientific Community

Community Curation

Allele Phenotype Submission Can view existing data Autofill

Allele Phenotype Submission Click on ? to see help

Allele Phenotype Submission Submission of new alleles encouraged

Allele Phenotype Submission Links to ontologies encourage standardised terms

Allele Phenotype Submission

Allele Sequence Submission Same functions as Allele Phenotype form

Pipeline Acknowledgement to submitter. notification sent to relevant curators. Curator validates submission. Website – Attribution

Thank you Juancarlos Chan Chris Grove Karen Yook WormBase Consortium