bioDBcore: overview of the checklist and steps towards implementation

Members of the International Society for Biocuration (ISB, biocurator.org) and the BioSharing (biosharing.org) initiative work together to develop and implement BioDBcore (biodbcore.org), a community-defined, uniform system for describing the core attributes of biological databases, in particular, indicating in a consistent manner which community-defined standards (minimal information checklists, terminologies and exchange formats) they implement. The BioSharing catalogue offers this “one-stop shop” for those seeking information about the standards and data sharing policies.

This presentation illustrates the rational for BioDBcore(P Gaudet) and the progresses for its implementation (P Rocca-Serra), in particular, (i) how the core attributes and the BioSharing catalogues can be used in combination, and (ii) the work towards the exchange of the descriptors