Identifiers for the 21st century: How to design, provision, and reuse persistent identifiers to maximize utility and impact of life science data.

In many disciplines, data are highly decentralized across thousands of online databases (repositories, registries, and knowledgebases). Wringing value from such databases depends on the discipline of data science and on the humble bricks and mortar that make integration possible; identifiers are a c...

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Main Authors: Julie A McMurry, Nick Juty, Niklas Blomberg, Tony Burdett, Tom Conlin, Nathalie Conte, Mélanie Courtot, John Deck, Michel Dumontier, Donal K Fellows, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Philipp Gormanns, Jeffrey Grethe, Janna Hastings, Jean-Karim Hériché, Henning Hermjakob, Jon C Ison, Rafael C Jimenez, Simon Jupp, John Kunze, Camille Laibe, Nicolas Le Novère, James Malone, Maria Jesus Martin, Johanna R McEntyre, Chris Morris, Juha Muilu, Wolfgang Müller, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Murat Sariyar, Jacky L Snoep, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Natalie J Stanford, Neil Swainston, Nicole Washington, Alan R Williams, Sarala M Wimalaratne, Lilly M Winfree, Katherine Wolstencroft, Carole Goble, Christopher J Mungall, Melissa A Haendel, Helen Parkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001414