Adel Bouhraoua - APICURON: standardizing attribution of biocuration activity to promote engagement
Channel: Biocuration Conference 2023
Date: 21/06/2023

*Session:* April 25 - Fair 1 - 01

*Abstract:* Biocuration plays a key role in making research data available to the scientific community in a standardized way. Despite its importance, the contribution and effort of biocurators is extremely difficult to attribute and quantify. APICURON (https://apicuron.org) is a web server that provides biological databases and organizations with a real-time automatic tracking system of biocuration activities. APICURON stores biocuration activities and calculates achievements (medals, badges) and leaderboards on the fly to allows an objective evaluation of the volume and quality of the contributions. Results are served through a public API and available through the APICURON website. The API and the website have been recently redesigned to improve database performance and user experience. A large amount of documentation and guidelines have been published aiming at helping the connecting resources to improve their interoperability and expose curation activities respecting the FAIR principles. APICURON is already supported by ELIXIR and well connected with the International Society for Biocuration. A core of early adopters’ curation databases (DisProt, PED, Pfam, Rfam, IntAct, SABIO-RK, Reactome, PomBase, SILVA, BioModels) are connecting to APICURON. APICURON aims at promoting engagement and certifying biocuration CVs, to this end it is already integrated into ORCID automatically propagating badges and achievements to ORCID user profiles.