New Author First Pass release marks the transition to ACKnowledge!

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WormBase is excited to announce that the Author First Pass project received support from the National Library of Medicine and is now officially known as ACKnowledge (Author Curation to Knowledgebase). This change reflects our commitment to expanding artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced community curation to capture more detailed experimental findings and to introduce our curation pipeline to additional model organism communities and their respective knowledgebases.

While busy transitioning our project and enhancing our AI methods, we also implemented further improvements to the current pipeline based on continuing valuable feedback from authors.  These improvements will help authors add more information about their papers and readily find previously published papers processed by our pipeline for curation using our Author Curation Portal.

A full list of enhancements is available in the V4 Release Notes.

We could have not achieved this exciting milestone without the continuous support and participation of the wonderful C. elegans community. Please continue to contribute to this important initiative!

Take note! Author First Pass Version 3 now in production!

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WormBase is excited to announce the release of a newly updated version of Author First Pass (AFP). Based on valuable feedback from our users, we’ve made several improvements, including:

  • Acknowledge author contributions on WormBase Paper and Person pages
  • Improved accuracy of entity extraction
  • Simplified data entry and updated instructions for data submission
  • Created a link to the ‘WormBase AFP Webinar‘ video
  • Updated the FAQs

Further enhancements and details are available in the V3 Release Notes.

As always, thank you to the awesome C. elegans community for your participation and input; we look forward to seeing your future submissions!

Register for upcoming WormBase webinars

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The next two webinars “Data mining strategies and workflows” and “Author First Pass and Textpresso” will be held on Feb 22nd and Feb 26th, 2021. Registration is required if you want to attend. Please go to our form to see the complete list of past and upcoming webinars.

Announcing version 2 of the Author First Pass form

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WormBase is happy to announce that we’ve released a new version of the Author First Pass (AFP) form.  We’ve improved our methods for identifying relevant genes and alleles and added an FAQs section to help guide you through the process.  Full details are available in the V2 Release Notes.  Thank you for your participation and feedback; we look forward to seeing your future submissions!

The URL for the V2 Release Notes link is:  https://github.com/WormBase/author-first-pass#release-notes