Bioentity linking
“Linking” refers to highlighting genes or similar entities in the main description and methods text. The goal is to have a navigable list of entities on the final article. Linking will be achieved by communicating with an external API (which will be handled by Nicholas Stiffler). The Coko application will send over the text and the API will respond with the links it found in the text.
Linking should be done early on by the submitting author (before the initial submission), quite possibly with a “link” button next to the text. After the API response is received, the author will be presented with a table of the links found and will be able to correct mistakes in the text and running the linking function again.
The editors should also have access to the linking feature, so that they can check the manuscript links and communicate to the author changes that they deem necessary.