Third-party Annotations: Linking PlutoF platform and the ELIXIR Contextual Data ClearingHouse for the reporting of source material annotation gaps and inaccuracies

Third-party annotations are a valuable resource to improve the quality of public DNA sequences. For example, sequences in International Nucleotide Sequence Databases Collaboration (INSDC) often lack important features like taxon interactions, species level identification, information associated with habitat, locality, country, coordinates, etc. Therefore, initiatives mine additional from publications and link have become common practice (e.g. Tedersoo et al. 2011, Nilsson 2014, Groom 2021). However, third-party their own specific challenges. can be inaccurate therefore must open for permanent data management. Further, every sequence (except type material) carry different names, which databased as equal scientific hypotheses. PlutoF platform provides such management services annotations. is an online computing service provider biology related disciplines. Registered users enter manage wide range data, e.g., occurrences, metabarcoding classifications, traits, lab data. It also annotation module where (on material source, geolocation taxonomic identifications, interacting taxa, etc.) added any collection specimen, living culture or record. The UNITE Community using these annotate INSDC rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) datasets. National Center Biotechnology Information (NCBI) linking its ITS PlutoF. there still missing automated solution sample record stored databases. One ambitions BiCIKL Project solve this through operating ELIXIR Contextual Data ClearingHouse (CDCH). CDCH offers light simple RESTful Application Programming Interface (API) enable extension, correction improvement publicly available on records resources. facilitates feeding improved corrected databases (such secondary databases, PlutoF, consume curate repositories) back primary repositories (databases three collaborative partners). In Biodiversity Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) Project, University Tartu Natural History Museum leading task two components—the web interface provided by APIs—to allow user-friendly effortless reporting errors gaps sequenced source API will promoted those communities taxonomists, abstracting literature, already community curated data) appropriate knowledge tools who encouraged report enhanced repositories.