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Pathogen metadata platform: software for accessing and analyzing pathogen strain information

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, September 2016
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Title
Pathogen metadata platform: software for accessing and analyzing pathogen strain information
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BMC Bioinformatics, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12859-016-1231-2
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Wenling E. Chang, Matthew W. Peterson, Christopher D. Garay, Tonia Korves

Abstract

Pathogen metadata includes information about where and when a pathogen was collected and the type of environment it came from. Along with genomic nucleotide sequence data, this metadata is growing rapidly and becoming a valuable resource not only for research but for biosurveillance and public health. However, current freely available tools for analyzing this data are geared towards bioinformaticians and/or do not provide summaries and visualizations needed to readily interpret results. We designed a platform to easily access and summarize data about pathogen samples. The software includes a PostgreSQL database that captures metadata useful for disease outbreak investigations, and scripts for downloading and parsing data from NCBI BioSample and BioProject into the database. The software provides a user interface to query metadata and obtain standardized results in an exportable, tab-delimited format. To visually summarize results, the user interface provides a 2D histogram for user-selected metadata types and mapping of geolocated entries. The software is built on the LabKey data platform, an open-source data management platform, which enables developers to add functionalities. We demonstrate the use of the software in querying for a pathogen serovar and for genome sequence identifiers. This software enables users to create a local database for pathogen metadata, populate it with data from NCBI, easily query the data, and obtain visual summaries. Some of the components, such as the database, are modular and can be incorporated into other data platforms. The source code is freely available for download at https://github.com/wchangmitre/bioattribution .

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
France 1 5%
Unknown 19 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 29%
Researcher 5 24%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Student > Master 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 4 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 33%
Computer Science 4 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 10%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 4 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 September 2016.
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#14,102,908
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#4,294
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#56
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