Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Outbreak.info Research Library: A standardized, searchable platform to discover and explore COVID-19 resources and data To combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have been conducting research at breakneck speeds, producing over 52,000 peer reviewed articles within the first 12 months. In contrast, a little over 1,000 peer reviewed articles were published within the first 12 months of the SARS-CoV-1 pandemic starting in 2002. In addition to publications, there has also been an upsurge in clinical trials to develop vaccines and treatments, scientific protocols to study SARS-CoV-2, methodology for epidemiological modeling, and datasets spanning molecular studies to social science research. One of the largest challenges has been keeping track of the vast amounts of newly generated disparate data and research that exist in independent repositories. To address this issue, we developed outbreak.info, which provides a standardized, searchable interface of heterogeneous resources on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. Unifying metadata from twelve repositories, we have assembled a collection of over 260,000 publications, clinical trials, datasets, protocols, and other resources as of March 2022. We used a rigorous schema to enforce a consistent format across different data sources and resource types, and linked related resources where possible. This enables users to quickly retrieve information across data repositories, regardless of resource type or repository location. Outbreak.info also combines the combined research library with spatiotemporal genomics data on SARS-CoV-2 variants. The web interface provides interactive visualizations and reports to explore the unified data and generate hypotheses. In addition to providing a web interface, we also publish the data we have assembled and standardized in a high performance public API and an R package. Finally, we discuss the challenges inherent in combining metadata from scattered and heterogeneous resources and provide recommendations to streamline this process to aid scientific research.
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: cognition
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The categories of this paper are: systems
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The categories of this paper are: behavior
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The categories of this paper are: evolutionary
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: bioengineering
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: pharmacology
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The categories of this paper are: developmental
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The categories of this paper are: scientific
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The categories of this paper are: education
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: neuroscience
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The categories of this paper are: pathology