How is the data curated at PlantsUBQ?
We keep close contact with participating labs and update the data as new information comes in. We keep an eye on newly published papers and extract/integrate relevant information into our database annotation. Periodically we run queries to search for possible duplicates by running BlastN/BlastP against the database itself. After putting together a candidate merging list, we carefully double check the validation by examining name and synonyms, source entries, and the Blast alignments before the merge.
