For anyone considering working on the ORCID-TAXID mapping tool, I suspect it might be an unusually approachable project for those with some familiarity with biological publications and programming. Even without what ORCID or TAXID stood for before reading this post, I managed to construct a barebones demo in 30 minutes using ChatGPT and the Europe PMC API (which has an option to search by ORCID ID, though some quick manual searches suggest it isn’t comprehensive). I think in under 30 hours you could build a decently useful product by adding features like:
Querying PubMed too alongside Europe PMC to get better publication coverage
Searching publications by author name (since PubMed doesn’t offer filtering by ORCID ID) and filtering out clear false positives using simple heuristics like author affiliation and publication area
Creating more fine-grained criteria for identifying organisms in publication abstracts and texts
I will message the post authors and offer to do this myself, but if you already have background in biological sciences and are looking for a cool upskilling project, you would probably be a better fit than me for this.
For anyone considering working on the ORCID-TAXID mapping tool, I suspect it might be an unusually approachable project for those with some familiarity with biological publications and programming. Even without what ORCID or TAXID stood for before reading this post, I managed to construct a barebones demo in 30 minutes using ChatGPT and the Europe PMC API (which has an option to search by ORCID ID, though some quick manual searches suggest it isn’t comprehensive). I think in under 30 hours you could build a decently useful product by adding features like:
Querying PubMed too alongside Europe PMC to get better publication coverage
Searching publications by author name (since PubMed doesn’t offer filtering by ORCID ID) and filtering out clear false positives using simple heuristics like author affiliation and publication area
Creating more fine-grained criteria for identifying organisms in publication abstracts and texts
I will message the post authors and offer to do this myself, but if you already have background in biological sciences and are looking for a cool upskilling project, you would probably be a better fit than me for this.