Help biocurators to maximize the reach of your data.

Curated scientific databases catalogue and amplify research findings to maximize their reach. Authors should write their papers with this in mind, ensuring that data are accurate, easy to extract, and presented in standardized formats. Scientific data is becoming increasingly complex, making data curation increasingly difficult. In this Perspective, a group of biocurators present some simple guidelines for data accessibility that will help to increase the reach of published studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]