Phase 2 of recuration starts now! Can you invest in it? Or recommend this to others?

[Robert Giessmann]

Hi everyone,

After an incredible Phase 1 of our re-curation effort, we are now opening up to the metadata of the tables from the Goldberg reviews. We already extended the available data a lot, with quite some tables which were "unknown" before, but happened to actually exist in the PDF.

A short recap of Phase 1: in just 30 days, we had 13 incredibly motivated curators, who contributed a total of 60 hours, all voluntarily. I am still stunned and so grateful! In Phase 1, we compared the actual numbers (temperature, pH, Keq'; more, if more was there) from a Google Docs spreadsheet to tables in PDF files.

For our next step in Phase 2, we estimate a need of 16 working hours. We will work on the "metadata", i.e. reaction, buffers, evaluation, ...

You can contribute with time blocks as little as 3 minutes, to help us finish the re-curation and get yourself into a manuscript for the database issue in Nucleic Acid Research (apart from eternal gratefulness, of course).

You can read the manual with detailed explanation here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ShYTE-Ss3HJ6nhTeL0XBnlyM5fkCstl55L1x9rxuCU/edit

The spreadsheet for doing the actual curation is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jLIxEXVzE2SAzIB0UxBfcFoHrzjzf9euB6ART2VDE8c/edit#gid=652907302 (also linked from the manual)

I hope the manual is somewhat self-explanatory, but please always reach out when in doubt, and/or use the commenting function!

Thanks so much in advance for your support! And hoping to hear from you soon with questions on the annotation. :)

Best,

   Robert