title: Capturing biological information with class-responsibility-collaboration cards.
abstract: Class-responsibility-collaboration (CRC) cards have been used extensively in the software industry for defining complex object-oriented software requirements. We have adapted this tool to capture information about biological components, collaborators and responsibilities within these collaborations, which is not captured by current annotation tools. CRC cards should provide a common ground that will facilitate communication between biologist and computer scientists.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  A CRC card template, XML representation and XML schema are freely available at http://people.musc.edu/~zhengw/CRCCard/CRC_Card_Index.html
  
  
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  Supplemental Figures 1-4.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, 135 Cannon Street, P.O. Box 250835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shegogue
authors.forename: W Jim
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Zheng
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D011381:Programming Languages; D011506:Proteins / Q000145:classification*; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins