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PLoS Computational Biology: Biocurators

The number and scope of scientific databases has soared in recent years, creating a new profession, the biocurator. These "museum catalogers of the Internet age" face a continuous struggle of making ever growing amounts of data accessible. In perspectives for PLoS Computational Biology, accompanied by an editorial, light is shed on their work and its challenges. New articles will be added to the Biocurators Collection as they are published.

Editorial Top

Biocurators: Contributors to the World of Science

Philip E Bourne, Johanna McEntyre

PLoS Computational Biology:
Published 27 Oct 2006 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020142

Perspectives Top

The Rat Genome Database Curators: Who, What, Where, Why

Mary Shimoyama, G. Thomas Hayman, Stanley J. F. Laulederkind, Rajni Nigam, Timothy F. Lowry, Victoria Petri, Jennifer R. Smith, Shur-Jen Wang, Diane H. Munzenmaier, Melinda R. Dwinell, Simon N. Twigger, Howard J. Jacob

PLoS Computational Biology:
Published 26 Nov 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000582

A Biocurator Perspective: Annotation at the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank

Kyle Burkhardt, Bohdan Schneider, Jeramia Ory

PLoS Computational Biology:
Published 27 Oct 2006 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020099

The Biocurator: Connecting and Enhancing Scientific Data

Nima Salimi, Randi Vita

PLoS Computational Biology:
Published 27 Oct 2006 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020125