Difference between revisions of "Ancient mtDNA Week 5"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(linked partner to page) |
(→General information about the database: added lad step note) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
==Database Evaluation== | ==Database Evaluation== | ||
===General information about the database=== | ===General information about the database=== | ||
| − | #Name: Ancient mtDNA Database | + | #Name: Ancient mtDNA Database |
| + | #*Database was chosen from the [https://academic.oup.com/nar/issue/47/D1 ''Nucleic Acids Research'' Database Issue Table of Contents 2019]. | ||
#type of Database | #type of Database | ||
#*It is a Database of Ancient mitochondrial DNA. The Database is built up of secondary source information curated by the research team under Dr. Edvard Ehler from the Laboratory of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Institute of Molecular Genetics at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, working with a team from Anna Juras ancient DNA lab, Institute of Anthropology, UAM, Poznan, Poland. | #*It is a Database of Ancient mitochondrial DNA. The Database is built up of secondary source information curated by the research team under Dr. Edvard Ehler from the Laboratory of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Institute of Molecular Genetics at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, working with a team from Anna Juras ancient DNA lab, Institute of Anthropology, UAM, Poznan, Poland. | ||
Revision as of 16:37, 30 September 2019
Contents
Database Evaluation
General information about the database
- Name: Ancient mtDNA Database
- Database was chosen from the Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue Table of Contents 2019.
- type of Database
- It is a Database of Ancient mitochondrial DNA. The Database is built up of secondary source information curated by the research team under Dr. Edvard Ehler from the Laboratory of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Institute of Molecular Genetics at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, working with a team from Anna Juras ancient DNA lab, Institute of Anthropology, UAM, Poznan, Poland.
- what organization maintains the Database
- The Database is maintained by the research team under Dr. Edvard Ehler from the Laboratory of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Institute of Molecular Genetics at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, working with a team from Anna Juras ancient DNA lab, Institute of Anthropology, UAM, Poznan, Poland.
- What is their funding source
Scientific quality of the database
- Does the content appear to completely cover its content domain?
- How many records does the database contain?
- What claims do the database owners make about coverage in the corresponding paper?
- What species are covered in the database? (If it is a very long list, summarize.)
- Is the database content useful? I.e., what biological questions can it be used to answer?
- Is the database content timely?
- Is there a need in the scientific community for such a database at this time?
- Is the content covered by other databases
- How current is the database?
- When did the database first go online?
- How often is the database updated?
- last update?
General utility of the database to the scientific community
- Other links to Databases
- Is is easy to browse data
- Is it easy to download data
- What file format is the data
- what type of file based on extension
- Standard or nonstandard format
- What file format is the data
- Evaluate if it is user friendly
- is it well organized
- does it have help section or tutorial
- Is there search options
- Run a sample query. did it work
- Access is there any licensing agreement or restrictions
Summary judgment
- Would you direct a college in a different field to this site
- Is this a professional or hobby site?
Acknowledgements
References
user:Msamdars Eyoung20 user page
