BioStar: An Online Question & Answer Resource for the Bioinformatics Community
Parnell, Laurence D. et al.
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dig-ibe-es-10261-443172021-12-28T16:51:43Z BioStar: An Online Question & Answer Resource for the Bioinformatics Community Parnell, Laurence D. Dall'Olio, Giovanni Marco Albert, Istvan National Science Foundation (US) National Institutes of Health (US) Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España) Parnell, Laurence D. et al. Although the era of big data has produced many bioinformatics tools and databases, using them effectively often requires specialized knowledge. Many groups lack bioinformatics expertise, and frequently find that software documentation is inadequate while local colleagues may be overburdened or unfamiliar with specific applications. Too often, such problems create data analysis bottlenecks that hinder the progress of biological research. In order to help address this deficiency, we present BioStar, a forum based on the Stack Exchange platform where experts and those seeking solutions to problems of computational biology exchange ideas. The main strengths of BioStar are its large and active group of knowledgeable users, rapid response times, clear organization of questions and responses that limit discussion to the topic at hand, and ranking of questions and answers that help identify their usefulness. These rankings, based on community votes, also contribute to a reputation score for each user, which serves to keep expert contributors engaged. The BioStar community has helped to answer over 2,300 questions from over 1,400 users (as of June 10, 2011), and has played a critical role in enabling and expediting many research projects. BioStar can be accessed at http://www.biostars.org/. This work was partially supported by NSF grants MCB-0618402 and CCF-0643529 (CAREER), NIH grants 1R55AI065507 – 01A2 and 1 R01 GM083113-01, NIH/NCRR grant number UL1RR033184, and FPI fellowship SAF-2007-63171/BES-2009-017731 from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain. These funders had no role in the design of BioStar, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Peer reviewed 2012-01-16T14:20:28Z 2012-01-16T14:20:28Z 2011-10-27 artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 PLoS Comput Biol 7(10): e1002216. (2011) 1553-734X http://hdl.handle.net/10261/44317 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002216 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002 22046109 en Publisher’s version http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002216 Sí open Public Library of Science |
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