APICURON

APICURON tracks and credits biocuration contributions across multiple biological knowledgebases by aggregating biocuration events and assigning attribution and recognition to individual biocurators.

Key Features:

• Aggregation of biocuration events: Aggregates biocuration events submitted by third-party resources to centralize contribution records.
• Gamification elements: Implements badges, medals, and leaderboards to represent recognition and ranking of biocurators.
• Contribution monitoring: Monitors contributions for registered resources and individual biocurators to ensure accurate tracking.
• Flexible data model: Provides a flexible data model capable of representing and tracking a wide array of biocuration activities.
• ORCID-based attribution: Uses ORCID identifiers to uniquely attribute biocurator contributions.
• Customizable scoring and rules: Supports customizable definitions of curation events, scoring systems, and rules for assigning badges and medals per resource.
• API integration: Exposes an API to enable integration with external biological databases.
• Demonstrated integration: Includes a documented use case connecting the DisProt database of intrinsically disordered proteins.

Scientific Applications:

• Biocurator attribution: Provides formal attribution and crediting of individual biocuration efforts.
• Data structuring: Facilitates extraction and structuring of biological data from research literature into standardized records.
• Cross-database tracking: Tracks curator activity and contributions across multiple knowledgebases.
• Support for knowledgebase maintenance: Supports maintenance and quality control of structured biological knowledge resources.
• Protein disorder annotation: Supports curation workflows such as the DisProt use case for intrinsically disordered proteins.

Methodology:

Aggregates biocuration events from third-party resources into a flexible data model, attributes contributions via ORCID identifiers, applies customizable event definitions and scoring rules, and exposes an API for integration and monitoring.