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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


Symbiotic interactions between protists and prokaryotes, described with structured data.
This project aims to describe symbiotic interactions between protists and prokaryotes as structured data.


The aim is to model information about:
Envisioned use cases include:
* Taxonomy of both hosts and symbionts, with links to external databases (primarily NCBI)
* Search and browse symbiotic interactions by biological taxonomy, leveraging cross-references to external taxonomies (e.g. NCBI Taxonomy, Catalogue of Life)
* Find interactions that are described in earlier literature but not yet studied with modern methods
* Programatically find new literature to update the database, by querying the NCBI databases using linked NCBI taxon IDs
* Share data with [https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/ GloBI] through periodic data exports
 
Interactions are described with the following statements, roughly aligned with the GloBI terms:
* Taxonomy of hosts and symbionts, with links to external databases (primarily NCBI)
* Localization of symbionts in cellular compartments of the host cell, using Gene Ontology terms
* Localization of symbionts in cellular compartments of the host cell, using Gene Ontology terms
* Nature of biotic interactions, if this is known, using Relation Ontology terms (although there are some limitations in this ontology for describing mutualistic interactions)
* Nature of biotic interactions, if this is known, using Relation Ontology terms (although there are some limitations in this ontology for describing mutualistic interactions)
* Analytical methods used to study the symbioses
* Analytical methods used to study the symbioses


The information was originally collected as part of my [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00106172-12 doctoral dissertation] (2017).  
This project originated as part of my [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00106172-12 doctoral dissertation] (2017).


==Explore the data==
==Explore the data==