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 This project aims to describe symbiotic interactions between protists and prokaryotes as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data Linked Open Data]. The database is hosted on [https://www.wikibase.cloud/ wikibase.cloud].
-Envisioned use cases include:
+What can the database be used for?
-* Search and browse symbiotic interactions by biological taxonomy, leveraging cross-references to external taxonomies (e.g. NCBI Taxonomy, Catalogue of Life)
+* Search and browse symbiotic interactions by biological taxonomy, leveraging cross-references to external taxonomies and databases
-* Find interactions that are described in earlier literature but not yet studied with modern methods
+* Find interactions that were 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
+* Programatically find sequence data, literature, etc. 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:
+What information do we wish to capture about symbiotic interactions?
 * 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