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6- Towards Data Attribution and Citation in the Life Sciences
Pages 43-48

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... In terms of life sciences data repositories, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is one of the largest in the field.
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... The following is our big metric of success that we use when we go to funding agencies. We have grown the user base considerably and people are spending more time working with the data than they ever did before.
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... Figure 6-3 provides an example related to H1N1 pandemic data. Effectively, associated PDB data were hardly used at all but suddenly, during that pandemic, the data became highly accessed.
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... It is a receptor on the cell surface called CD4. It is important for many reasons, but one of them is that there is a protein on the HIV virus that binds to it and so it has been identified as the causal agent of HIV infection.
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... TOWARDS DATA ATTRIBUTION AND CITATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES 47 the open access literature. What is even more interesting is that we can then see in each of those articles what else is being cited.
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