Many U.K.-based research councils (e.g. the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) state that when data are shared through a third party resource or database, authors need only acknowledge the source.
The development stage has not been clearly outlined in this first publication, but the database authors are contactable via the database webpage (http://www.handdatabase.org).org
In the experiments described here we considered interactions of all types, provided their confidence score was > = 0.7, classified as "high" by the database authors.
When submitting a data set to a database, authors are asked to provide the reference to a research article describing the creation of the data set; however, if the article is not published at the time of data set submission, the authors may not be able to supply this information.
However, it is important to mention that most sequences in the standard version of BAliBASE are not real-world sequences, but have been artificially truncated by the database authors who simply removed non-homologous C-terminal or N-terminal parts of the sequences.
Although the method outperforms the Daugman's [1] and Ma's [26] algorithms, the databases authors use for experiments almost exclusively contains images with eyelid and eyelash obstruction, and thus no conclusion can be drawn as to the method's robustness against degrading effects of the noise factors.
As an alternative to presenting search strategies for all databases, authors could indicate how the search took into account other databases searched, as index terms vary across databases.
Conclusion, 2nd sentence: change "function annotations in a database" to "functional annotations in public databases" Authors' response: We changed the phrase as suggested.
In cases where we were unable to retrieve articles from the authorised databases, authors were contacted between 1 and 3 times in order to amend the data collected.
66 In addition to searching databases, authors should report the use of supplementary approaches to identify studies, such as hand searching of journals, checking reference lists, searching trials registries or regulatory agency websites, 67 contacting manufacturers, or contacting authors.
