Using Papers Citations for Selecting the Best Genomic Databases

Author

Lichtnow, D. ; Alves, Renan ; de Oliveira, J.P.M. ; Levin, A. ; Pastor, O. ; Castello, I.M. ; Dopazo, Joaquin

Author_Institution

Inst. de Inf., Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

42

Abstract

Selecting the right data is an essential activity in Genomic-related Information Systems. This work aims to analyze if it is possible to select the best genomic databases from a catalog using information about papers citations related to these genomic databases. The motivation for using information about citations has to do with the fact that it is not easy to obtain proper metadata with respect to these databases. Thus, in this work, information related to papers citations is used for measuring three distinct data quality dimensions: believability, timeliness, and relevancy. Believability is evaluated through the inspection of the number of citations. The variation of the number of citations over time is useful for determining the recency of a database and it is related to the timeliness dimension. Regarding to relevancy, the keywords of papers are useful to indicate the main context of application of these databases.

Keywords

biology computing; genomics; information systems; data quality dimensions; genomic databases; genomic-related information systems; paper citations; timeliness dimension; Bioinformatics; Catalogs; Context; Databases; Genomics; Google; Web sites; Database selection; database catalogs; quality indicators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science Society (SCCC), 2011 30th International Conference of the Chilean

Conference_Location

Curico

ISSN

1522-4902

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1364-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCCC.2011.6

Filename

6363380