@article{156, keywords = {Big Data, Data Curation, Data Mining, Databases, Genetic, Gene Regulatory Networks, Genes, Plant, Genomics, Workflow}, author = {Sushma Naithani and Parul Gupta and Justin Preece and Priyanka Garg and Valerie Fraser and Lillian Padgitt-Cobb and Matthew Martin and Kelly Vining and Pankaj Jaiswal}, title = {Involving community in genes and pathway curation.}, abstract = {Biocuration plays a crucial role in building databases and complex systems-level platforms required for processing, annotating and analyzing {\textquoteright}Big Data{\textquoteright} in biology. However, biocuration efforts cannot keep pace with a dramatic increase in the production of omics data; this presents one of the bottlenecks in genomics. In two pathway curation jamborees, Plant Reactome curators tested strategies for introducing researchers to pathway curation tools, harnessing biologists{\textquoteright} expertise in curating plant pathways and developing a network of community biocurators. We summarize the strategy, workflow and outcomes of these exercises, and discuss the role of community biocuration in advancing databases and genomic resources.}, year = {2019}, journal = {Database : the journal of biological databases and curation}, volume = {2019}, month = {2019 01 01}, issn = {1758-0463}, doi = {10.1093/database/bay146}, language = {eng}, }