Biological databases serve as a global fundamental infrastructure for the worldwide scientific community,which dramatically aid the transformation of big data into knowledge discovery and drive significant innovations...Biological databases serve as a global fundamental infrastructure for the worldwide scientific community,which dramatically aid the transformation of big data into knowledge discovery and drive significant innovations in a wide range of research fields.Given the rapid data production,biological databases continue to increase in size and importance.To build a catalog of worldwide biological databases,we curate a total of 5825 biological databases from 8931 publications,which are geographically distributed in 72 countries/regions and developed by 1975 institutions(as of September 20,2022).We further devise a z-index,a novel index to characterize the scientific impact of a database,and rank all these biological databases as well as their hosting institutions and countries in terms of citation and z-index.Consequently,we present a series of statistics and trends of worldwide biological databases,yielding a global perspective to better understand their status and impact for life and health sciences.An up-to-date catalog of worldwide biological databases,as well as their curated meta-information and derived statistics,is publicly available at Database Commons(https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/databasecommons/).展开更多
基金supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDA19090116 and XDA19050302)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31871328 and 32030021)+2 种基金the Professional Association of the Alliance of International Science Organizations(Grant No.ANSO-PA-2020-07)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2019104)the International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.153F11KYSB20160008).
文摘Biological databases serve as a global fundamental infrastructure for the worldwide scientific community,which dramatically aid the transformation of big data into knowledge discovery and drive significant innovations in a wide range of research fields.Given the rapid data production,biological databases continue to increase in size and importance.To build a catalog of worldwide biological databases,we curate a total of 5825 biological databases from 8931 publications,which are geographically distributed in 72 countries/regions and developed by 1975 institutions(as of September 20,2022).We further devise a z-index,a novel index to characterize the scientific impact of a database,and rank all these biological databases as well as their hosting institutions and countries in terms of citation and z-index.Consequently,we present a series of statistics and trends of worldwide biological databases,yielding a global perspective to better understand their status and impact for life and health sciences.An up-to-date catalog of worldwide biological databases,as well as their curated meta-information and derived statistics,is publicly available at Database Commons(https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/databasecommons/).
