Project: Prompting bioRxiv authors to contribute to Biofactoid via social

[jvwong]

Background

bioRxiv is a rich resource of recently posted research findings and represents an opportunity to connect with authors about Biofactoid.

A dashboard for each preprint includes an aggregation of X/Twitter mentions:

• Someone posts a bioRxiv preprint URL/DOI
  

• It appears on bioRxiv website under the "Tweets" icon (via Altmetric)
  

Proposed

Use classifier to identify bioRxiv preprints and connect via social to prompt authors to contribute to Biofactoid:

• Post Tweet referencing article and Biofactoid

  • "We noticed your article and think it has molecular interaction content is suitable with Pathway Commons for gene set and network analyses free for use by other researchers. Consider contributing at biofactoid.org https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600176v1"

Implementation

Alternative ways to retrieve bioRxiv:

• feeds
  • https://connect.biorxiv.org/
  • e.g. https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=Cell_Biology

Related

https://github.com/PathwayCommons/hyper-recent

[maxkfranz]

Note: For the tweet, it would be great if we could avoid the ‘we noticed…’ tweets being listed in the main feed for the Biofactoid account. I think starting a tweet with an @mention does this, but I’m not sure if it still works this way or there’s an API-specific way of doing this.

Options:

(1) Maybe there’s an API flag to disable the profile listing

(2) Start the tweet with @biofactoid or some other account that makes sense

(3) Create a different account for these suggestion tweets (downside: fewer clicks on the @biofactoid account)

[cannin]

@maxkfranz The API does let you @mention and the tweet with @user at the beginning like: client.create_tweet(text="@elonmusk Just joined X!") would show up in the "Replies" tab on the site for the person posting; verified with Python tweepy.