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The Confidence Information Ontology: A Step Towards A Standard For Asserting Confidence In Annotations, Frederic B. Bastian, Marcus C. Chibucos, Pascale Gaudet, Michelle Giglio, Gemma L. Holiday, Hong Huang, Suzanna E. Lewis, Anne Niknejad, Sandra Orchard, Sylvain Poux, Nives Skunca, Marc Robinson-Rechavi

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Biocuration has become a cornerstone for analyses in biology, and to meet needs, the amount of annotations has considerably grown in recent years. However, the reliability of these annotations varies; it has thus become necessary to be able to assess the confidence in annotations. Although several resources already provide confidence information about the annotations that they produce, a standard way of providing such information has yet to be defined. This lack of standardization undermines the propagation of knowledge across resources, as well as the credibility of results from high-throughput analyses. Seeded at a workshop during the Biocuration 2012 conference, a …