Christopher Hunter - GigaDB: Utilising ontologies to curate data publications
Channel: Biocuration Conference 2023
Date: 2023-06-21

*Session:* April 25 - Fair 2 - 01

*Abstract:* GigaScience journal celebrated its 10th birthday last year, and GigaDB is technically 1 yr older than the journal. In that time we have led the way in Open data sharing and FAIRification of data. We aim to ensure every article published by GigaScience Press is fully reproducible and transparent. In order to do that, it is essential that all data units are openly available along with the manuscript. GigaDB provide a manually curated dataset to accompany each manuscript published in both GigaScience and GigaByte (launched in 2020) journals, we collate the data files required for transparency and reproducibility and ensure data are deposited in appropriate public repositories with links included in both the manuscript and the dataset. In addition, we provide assistance to authors in; (a) the curation of sample metadata, making use of ontologies where appropriate (e.g. ENVO, PATO, OBI, BTO, UBERON, etc.); (b) the curation of files being made available to ensure they are complete, appropriately formatted, well described, and tagged with both a file format and a data-type chosen from a controlled vocabulary based on the EDAM ontology; and (c) the inclusion of specific Subject tags to each dataset which are chosen from a slim set of SRAO terms. Moving forwards, we hope to enable better integration of our datasets with other external resources by exposing the ontology term usage in GigaDB as metatags on each dataset webpage to assist researchers creating knowledge graphs.