Outbreak.info Research Library: A standardized, searchable platform to discover and explore COVID-19 resources

To combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been conducting research at breakneck speeds, producing over 52,000 peer-reviewed articles within the first year. To address the challenge in tracking the vast amount of new research located in separate repositories, we developed outbreak.info...

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Published in:bioRxiv 2022-12
Main Authors: Tsueng, Ginger, Mullen, Julia L, Alkuzweny, Manar, Cano, Marco, Rush, Benjamin, Haag, Emily, Curators, Outbreak, Lin, Jason, Welzel, Dylan J, Zhou, Xinghua, Qian, Zhongchao, Latif, Alaa Abdel, Hufbauer, Emory, Zeller, Mark, Andersen, Kristian G, Wu, Chunlei, Su, Andrew I, Gangavarapu, Karthik, Hughes, Laura D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioinformatics
Clinical trials
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Epidemic models
Epidemiology
Medical research
Metadata
Pandemics
Reviews
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
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Summary:To combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been conducting research at breakneck speeds, producing over 52,000 peer-reviewed articles within the first year. To address the challenge in tracking the vast amount of new research located in separate repositories, we developed outbreak.info Research Library, a standardized, searchable interface of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 resources. Unifying metadata from sixteen repositories, we assembled a collection of over 350,000 publications, clinical trials, datasets, protocols, and other resources as of October 2022. We used a rigorous schema to enforce consistency across different sources and resource types and linked related resources. Researchers can quickly search the latest research across data repositories, regardless of resource type or repository location, via a search interface, public API, and R package. Finally, we discuss the challenges inherent in combining metadata from scattered and heterogeneous resources and provide recommendations to streamline this process to aid scientific research.
ISSN:2692-8205
DOI:10.1101/2022.01.20.477133