Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.52614 and PMC identifier 7077981.
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Abstract
Wikidata is a community-maintained knowledge base that has been assembled from repositories in the fields of genomics, proteomics, genetic variants, pathways, chemical compounds, and diseases, and that adheres to the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability. Here we describe the breadth and depth of the biomedical knowledge contained within Wikidata, and discuss the open-source tools we have built to add information to Wikidata and to synchronize it with source databases. We also demonstrate several use cases for Wikidata, including the crowdsourced curation of biomedical ontologies, phenotype-based diagnosis of disease, and drug repurposing.
Medical subject headings
- Biological Science Disciplines
- Computational Biology
- Databases, Factual
- Genomics
- Proteomics