Data import: checklist (draft)

Introduction

This checklist is intended to help formalize the decision-making process for importing new data into Pathway Commons. The aim is to help structure and update information about providers along with useful considerations about the data and the actual status of import.

Format: Could paste template below into each github issue for data import and fill out? Triage: Could assign weights to each of the categories and triage accordingly?

General

• Name
• Description
• Last update: [MM/DD/YYYY]
  • Update frequency: [ Never; period ]
• Downloads: [url]
• Homepage: [url]
• Logo: [url]
• Format: [text]
  • Immediate: [ PSI-MI; PSI-MITAB; BIOPAX ]
    • Validates
  • Not immediately usable
    • Effort: [Provider; PC]
    • Hosting: [Provider; PC]
• Publication: [PMID]
• Availability: [ free; academic; other ]
  • Free for academic and commercial use
  • Restrictions on commercial use
  • Restrictions on academic and commercial use
  • Redistribution
    • Explicit permission required
    • Restriction on data modification
    • Must provide data access logs

Contact

• Primary
  • Name:
  • Email:
  • Position:
• Technical
  • Name:
  • Email:
  • Position:
• Helpdesk

Value

• Curated
• Size: [No. interactions]
• References
  • Standard biological IDs
  • Other IDs registered in MIRIAM
  • Publication IDs
• Conceptual area
  • Immunity
  • Metabolism
  • Drugs
  • Signalling
  • Gene regulatory
  • Genetic interactions
  • Molecular interactions
• Species
  • human
    • Can download/extract only human
  • Other: [ text ]