Ancient mtDNA Week 5
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Contents
Database Evaluation
General information about the database
- Name
- type of Database
- What type of biological information does it contain
- What type of data sources does it use
- what organization maintains the Database
- 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?
