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Biocurators Collection

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The number and scope of scientific databases has soared in recent years, creating a new profession, the biocurator. These "museum catalogers of the Internet age" face a continuous struggle of making ever growing amounts of data accessible. In two perspectives for PLoS Computational Biology, accompanied by an editorial, light is shed on their work and its challenges.

Editorial

ThumbnailBiocurators: Contributors to the World of Science
Bourne PE, McEntyre J
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020142

Perspectives

ThumbnailA Biocurator Perspective: Annotation at the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank
Burkhardt K, Schneider B, Ory J
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020099
ThumbnailThe Biocurator: Connecting and Enhancing Scientific Data
Salimi N, Vita R
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020125

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