The evolution of standards and data management practices in systems biology
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A recent community survey conducted by Infrastructure for Systems Biology Europe (ISBE) informs requirements for developing an efficient infrastructure for systems biology standards, data and model management.[Image: see text]
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BioModels is the world's largest repository of curated models and the third most used data resource after PubMed and Google Scholar among scientists who use modelling in their research.
“BioModels is the world’s largest repository of curated models and is the third most used data resource after PubMed and Google Scholar among the scientists who use modelling in their research (Stanford et al., 2015; Szigeti et al., 2018).”
From BioModels Parameters: a treasure trove of parameter values from published systems biology models (2020) · cites this paper as Stanford et al., 2015
The Introduction glossary describes BioModels as a database for curated and non-curated computational models, and “Sharing in public repositories” calls it the most popular models database among respondents (33%). Neither passage establishes that it is the world’s largest curated-model repository or ranks it third after PubMed and Google Scholar. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Stanford, N. J., Wolstencroft, K., Golebiewski, M., Kania, R., Juty, N., Tomlinson, C., Owen, S., Butcher, S., Hermjakob, H., Le Novère, N., Mueller, W., Snoep, J., & Goble, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Leiden University (NL)
- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (DE)
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Stanford, Natalie J
- ORCID
- Venue
- Molecular Systems Biology
- Published
- 2015-12-01
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 851-851
- ISSN
- 1744-4292 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4704484
- OpenAlex
- W2301320572
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 12.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Molecular Systems Biology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- SUNScholar (Stellenbosch University) (submittedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission (312455)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (0315749, FKZ 0315749)
- Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie
- Klaus Tschira Stiftung
- German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/C519670/1, BB/E006248/1, BB/M013189/1, BBS/E/B/000C0419, BB/I004637/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Keywords
- data management, model management, research infrastructure, community survey, standards development, data sharing
- MeSH terms
- Database Management Systems, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Software, Systems Biology
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