First Annotations on UNITE with PlutoF

I recently created an account with PlutoF and started providing DNA sequence annotations.

My first 11 annotations are now available on the UNITE database Link

As stated on the UNITE community page…

“Third-party annotations are a valuable resource to improve the quality of public DNA sequences. For example, sequences in International Nucleotide Sequence Databases Collaboration (INSDC) often lack important features like taxon interactions, species level identification, information associated with material source, habitat, country, geolocation, etc.

PlutoF offers a third-party curation service to improve the quality of public DNA sequences and their source metadata (read the related ARPHA Preprint in Research Ideas and Outcomes). UNITE Community is using these services to annotate and improve the quality of INSDC rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence datasets. In collaboration with EMBL-EBI, improved or corrected annotations on INSD sequences in PlutoF are fed back to primary repositories through operating the ELIXIR Contextual Data ClearingHouse (CDCH).

Searching and browsing of third-party annotations introduced by the UNITE Community can be done via ELIXIR CDCH RESTful API or using search interfaces of PlutoF and UNITE.””