InteractOA – High-resolution references of ncRNA-mRNA interactions in Wikidata Konrad U. Förstner ZB MED – Information Center for Life Sciences, Cologne, Germany & TH Köln, Cologne Germany WikiCite 2018 – November 27th, 2018, Berkeley
Problems with scientific databases • missing sources of stored statements – if available only on the level of journal articles • maintainer (e.g. PhD student) leaves ⇒ db not maintained anymore
Use case – bacterial ncRNA-mRNA interactions Can we refer to the exact sources (sentence, paragraph) of statements about ncRNA-mRNA interactions in Open Access articles from PubMedCentral?
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