Department of Computer Information Systems, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Malta.
Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech. 2022 Jan;1865(1):194767. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2021.194767. Epub 2021 Nov 6.
Research in Bioinformatics generates tools and datasets in Bioinformatics at a very fast rate. Meanwhile, a lot of effort is going into making these resources findable and reusable to improve resource discovery by researchers in the course of their work.
This paper proposes a semi-automated tool to assess a resource according to the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR) criteria. The aim is to create a portal that presents the assessment score together with a report that researchers can use to gauge a resource.
Our system uses internet searches to automate the process of generating FAIR scores. The process is semi-automated in that if a particular property of the FAIR scores has not been captured by AutoFAIR, a user is able to amend and supply the information to complete the assessment.
We compare our results against FAIRshake that was used as the benchmark tool for comparing the assessments. The results show that AutoFAIR was able to match the FAIR criteria in FAIRshake with minimal intervention from the user.
We show that AutoFAIR can be a good repository for storing metadata about tools and datasets, together with comprehensive reports detailing the assessments of the resources. Moreover, AutoFAIR is also able to score workflows, giving an overall indication of the FAIRness of the resources used in a scientific study.
生物信息学研究以非常快的速度生成生物信息学中的工具和数据集。同时，人们投入了大量精力使这些资源可查找和可重复使用，以提高研究人员在工作过程中发现资源的能力。
本文提出了一种半自动工具，根据可查找性、可访问性、互操作性和可重用性（FAIR）标准来评估资源。目的是创建一个门户，其中包含评估分数以及研究人员可以用来评估资源的报告。
我们的系统使用互联网搜索来自动生成 FAIR 分数。该过程是半自动的，即如果 FAIR 分数的特定属性未被 AutoFAIR 捕获，则用户可以进行修正并提供信息以完成评估。
我们将结果与 FAIRshake 进行了比较，FAIRshake 被用作比较评估的基准工具。结果表明，AutoFAIR 能够以最小的用户干预匹配 FAIRshake 中的 FAIR 标准。
我们表明，AutoFAIR 可以成为存储有关工具和数据集的元数据的良好存储库，以及详细说明资源评估的综合报告。此外，AutoFAIR 还能够对工作流程进行评分，给出用于科学研究的资源的 FAIR 总体指示。
