Biocuration involves adding value to biomedical data by the processes of standardization, quality control and information transferring (also known as data annotation).
As data annotation can sometimes be a lengthy process, a facility to save work in an incomplete state prior to completion should also be incorporated.
In this way, PROFESS will help users overcome such problems as incomplete and misleading data annotations.
Experimental data can be additionally uploaded from files as well as favorite lists, expression data, annotation data and Affymetrix ortholog data to accelerate the data input process.
We foresee that the use of the BioC XML format, as a common data annotation format, might lower the adaptation burden for text mining developers on one side and also facilitate that system developers make reuse of community challenge corpora after the official competitions are over on the other side.
Other cases were less straightforward and, in some situations, would likely require considerable ontology revision, as well as data re-annotation, in order to resolve the issue.
Because none of the libraries were normalized, as indicated in the data annotation, they were pooled together with summation of counts for each unigene present in both of them.
In the case of eagle-i, the requirements for data annotation evolved as the data were collected, the ontology updated, and the guidelines enhanced.
The idea of contextual snapshots is to harness a single mechanism of 2D spatial selections for different tasks, such as data selection and manipulation, data annotation or specification of DOI functions.
In our data annotation, we counted as elements of the DISEASE frame those metaphors that involve medicine, tumor, surgery, symptom, treatment, and the Chinese concept of wind or draft as a trigger of disease.
