- Curation errors
- The PHI-base consortium has taken every care to ensure that the contents of the database are as accurate as possible.
Each database release is preceeded by an internal review and beta-testing phase.
However, if you spot an error in the database, we would be grateful if you could report them to us using the following email address:
contact@phi-base.org
Missing entries
Currently only papers are included, where the affected genes are characterised on the molecular level. For successful parsing, all nominated papers need to have a valid protein ID assigned by either EMBL, Genbank (NCBI) or UniProtKB. Only in exceptional cases the molecular information is entered manually. A further requirement for inclusion of a gene into PHI-base is that a mutant organism is tested on a host.
Additional missing publication entries on any pathogenic species can be logged either by an author or another scientist to our PHIbase help-desk email address.
Note: Our coverage of the pathogen effector literature is currently less advanced because we are developing an online curation portal for authors in order to capture additional information from each publication.