RNAct Week 5
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Contents
General Information of the Database
- What is the name of the database? (link to the home page)
- What type (or types) of database is it?
- What biological information (type of data) does it contain? (sequence, structure, model organism, or specialty [what?])
- What type of data source does it have?
- primary versus secondary ("meta")?
- curated versus non-curated?
- if curated, is it electronic versus human curation?
- if human curation, is it in-house staff versus community curation?
- What individual or organization maintains the database?
- public versus private
- large national or multinational entity or small lab group
- What is their funding source(s)?
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 already?
- How current is the database?
- When did the database first go online?
- How often is the database updated?
- When was the last update?
