Curation

Controlling the quality and validity of the large-scale analysis of secondary data requires the enforcement of interpretable standards for gene set construction and description. GeneWeaver’s use of discrete analysis eliminates many barriers to the integration of heterogeneous data sets across species and experiments. However, it is important for users to be able to rapidly interpret the nature of gene sets retrieved from the site, requiring a minimal standard for metadata associated with secondary data. For this purpose, both unstructured textual descriptions of the data and structured ontology annotations to the terms in these descriptions are used to define gene sets.

Our Curation Standards provide detailed guidance to GeneWeaver curation policies and sample curation types. We have also included a brief explanation of the Curation Process, which includes a guide to our new curation interface.