Data Curation Notes

New Journal Explorer and major bibliographic improvements in ChromoDB

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ChromoDB has launched a new Journal Explorer and completed a major round of bibliographic cleaning and normalisation. The new dashboard allows chromosome records to be explored by journal, while recent improvements to reference_type, journal_full and journal_short provide a substantially more consistent bibliographic framework for the database.

ChromoDB data update: a new working release and ongoing quality control

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ChromoDB has been updated with a new working dataset of more than 130,000 chromosome-count records. This update marks an important step forward, while data curation continues, especially in bibliography, taxonomy and geographic standardization.