Table 3.

Questions related to the awareness of data quality and curation issues

QID	Questions	Options
Q10	[A] I feel frustrated by ambiguous phenotypic terms or measurements seen in some biology publications.	5-point scale
Q11	[C] To make phenotype information in research articles useful for computers, the information needs to be formatted in a computer-accepted manner.	5-point scale
Q13	[C] Most biologists lack the skills to convert human-readable phenotype information to a computable format.	5-point scale
Q14	[C] I am aware that when curators convert phenotypic characters to a computable format using controlled vocabularies, there can be as high as 40% variation in the results produced by different curators. The variation can be attributed to the lack of good matching terms in controlled vocabularies and to the vagueness in the character descriptions.	True/False
Q15	[B] If I know a phenotypic character in my publication was curated into a computable format, but the new format does not convey the original meaning of the character, I will attempt to have it corrected.	5-point scale
Q16	[C] In my opinion, when converting a phenotype character to a computable format, it is the authors, rather than data curators, who are more capable of retaining the original meaning of the character.	5-point scale