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Today is the final day to nominate your favorite biocurator for the early and advanced career awards. The award includes a small cash prize and speaking slot at the ISB meeting in October. See https://www.biocuration.org/community/biocuration-career-awards/
#biocuration

There are 4 days left to nominate your favorite biocurator for the annual ISB career awards. You don't need to be a member to nominate or be nominated but only members can vote. Anyone who curates biological data is eligible! Details: https://www.biocuration.org/community/biocuration-career-awards/
#biocuration

We are excited to announce the second session of our “AI in Biocuration” 2026 series happening on May 7th. Please see our website for event details: https://www.biocuration.org/events/biocuration2026-virtual/ #biocuration

We're hosting a virtual poster session on June 15th at 17.00 CEST to supplement our annual in-person conference in Cape Town this April

Participation online is free and doesn't require registration - please submit a poster here: https://forms.gle/GBBxWynkBHoMoxhF7.

If you're attending the in-person conference in Cape Town, we also encourage you to submit/present the same poster again virtually!

#biocuration #openscience

We're excited to announce we're starting a podcast "Curate This!" where we interview (bio)curators and have them show us how they work (live!)

In the first episode, we talked with @drsbello about curating mouse genotypes and alleles in @MGI

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwvZ9KhfCM

#biocuration #mgi #mouse #podcast #vodcast #fairdata

We're excited to announce we're starting a podcast "Curate This!" where we interview (bio)curators and have them show us how they work (live!)

In the first episode, we talked with @drsbello about curating mouse genotypes and alleles in @MGI

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwvZ9KhfCM

#biocuration #mgi #mouse #podcast #vodcast #fairdata

FINAL DEADLINE — Last chance to submit your abstract for #IBC2026 ! Don't miss the chance to present your work at the meeting in April in South Africa either in-person or virtually. https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation

Amos was not only a giant of #bioinformatics and #biocuration, but one of the nicest people I've met in academia. His support and advice were invaluable when we were establishing @bgeedb, and I will always remember how warmly he welcomed us to @SIB when I arrived in Switzerland 20 years ago.
https://www.sib.swiss/news/amos-bairoch-swiss-pioneer-of-bioinformatics-passes-away

@wikipathways still has a good number (200 to 250) pathways that do not have a single reference (which does not mean no references were used): https://www.wikipathways.org/wikipathways-collection/index2#at-least-one-reference

I think we need some gamification here... a few tools that take the GPML or RDF and suggest a relevant lit reference, which then gets posted to this issue tracker (https://github.com/wikipathways/pathway-curation-tasks/issues), listing the WPID and PMID, PMCID, or DOI, and ideally the graphID of the DataNode or Interaction

#bioinformatics #gamification #biocuration

Hi everyone, we have updated the author and community pages on our website. Authors can now find curation reports for pathways they started, and Communities can find those too. We hope you like it! https://github.com/wikipathways/wikipathways-help/discussions/203

#openscience #biology #biocuration

Voting for the 2025 #Biocuration Career Awards has ended. We would like to thank all the nominees, nominators, and voters. These awards celebrate all of the hard work biocurators do everyday to make data FAIR. The winners are:

The 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference will take place from 20th to 24th April 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. More information here:

https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19th%20Annual%20International%20Biocuration%20Conference

#biocuration #biocuration2026

The 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference will take place from 20th to 24th April 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. More information here:

https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19th%20Annual%20International%20Biocuration%20Conference

#biocuration #biocuration2026

#ismbeccb2025 opened and is closing with recognition of data quality, #Biocuration and databases. 👍

#ismbeccb2025 opened and is closing with recognition of data quality, #Biocuration and databases. 👍

#ismbeccb2025 opened and is closing with recognition of data quality, #Biocuration and databases. 👍

#ismbeccb2025 opened and is closing with recognition of data quality, #Biocuration and databases. 👍

#ismbeccb2025 opened and is closing with recognition of data quality, #Biocuration and databases. 👍

Julio Collado Vides presenting the capture of confidence level in RegulonDB, which reminds me of the Confidence information ontology, which arose from a #Biocuration workshop but has remained sadly underused https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bav043 #ismbeccb2025

Alex Bateman: curation stops “model collapse” from AI. Curators can make judgements, knowledgebases are continually improving. #ismbeccb2025 #biocuration

#ISMBECCB2025 keynote Q&A: How will LLMs like ChatGPT affect the future of #biocuration ? I think Bairoch is hoping for domain specific integration with safeguards - like how #TextMining was adopted - he stresses this is not a panacea and needs engineering work

Brave lad - #ISMBECCB2025 keynote question from the floor from a high school student asking about the next 40 years of #Biocuration & engagement with schools etc

Good point of @bffo that licensing to companies limits re-usability of resources, contra #FAIR principles. Yet we need to find a sustainable model for our #bioinformatics #biocuration resources. #ismbeccb2025

Amos Bairoch “Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose” #ScienceFunding #Biocuration #ismbeccb2025

Amos's lament:
"It is quite depressive to think that we are spending millions in
grants for people to perform experiments, produce new
knowledge, hide this knowledge in a often badly written text and
then spend some more millions trying to second guess what the
authors really did and found.” #biocuration #ismbeccb2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2009.3092.1

Amos training #biocurators: “If you read a paper and you didn’t find an error, you didn’t read it carefully enough” #ismbeccb2025 #biocuration

Amos recognises role #SciHub which helped #biocuration. In Switzerland we are allowed to download pirated papers ;). #ismbeccb2025

Great choice of ISCB 2025 Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist: Amos Bairoch, 45 years of #biocuration which are foundational to our knowledge of biology in #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics. #ismbeccb2025 @SIB

First talk of the day at #ISMBECCB2025, keynote from Amos Bairoch "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: from #SwissProt to #Cellosaurus, 40 years of #biocuration" https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/programme-agenda/distinguished-keynotes#bairoch

reflecting on my @biocurator Advanced Career Award nomination: "Curation is an essential part of doing research" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html

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#biocuration #wikidata #wikipathways #citoOntology

reflecting on my @biocurator Advanced Career Award nomination: "Curation is an essential part of doing research" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html

replies to this post become blog comments.

#biocuration #wikidata #wikipathways #citoOntology

reflecting on my @biocurator Advanced Career Award nomination: "Curation is an essential part of doing research" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html

replies to this post become blog comments.

#biocuration #wikidata #wikipathways #citoOntology

reflecting on my @biocurator Advanced Career Award nomination: "Curation is an essential part of doing research" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html

replies to this post become blog comments.

#biocuration #wikidata #wikipathways #citoOntology

reflecting on my @biocurator Advanced Career Award nomination: "Curation is an essential part of doing research" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html

replies to this post become blog comments.

#biocuration #wikidata #wikipathways #citoOntology

🎺 Hear ye, hear ye! Fellow students, biocurators, and early-career scientists: your chance to join the [BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference 2025 is here!

Together with the ISB International Society for #biocuration, we offer 2️⃣ #travelgrants incl. free registration.

✅ Open to ISB members
✅ Priority to students, early-careers, and applicants from low/middle-income countries

👉 Submit by 30 April: https://www.bc2.ch/fellowships#isb

#bc2basel @genomic.socialgenomic.social

Nicole Vasilevsky and Randi Vita return to the #biocuration2025 stage for our yearly "Careers in Biocuration" workshop.

This is the last talk of our conference before closing remarks! It's been a great week.

#biocuration

The summary of our workshop lead by @cthoyt and Ben Gyori at #biocuration2025 is now live at https://biopragmatics.github.io/workshops/biocuration2025.html

📖 Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15184414

📺 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWfbH-TtkE

thanks to @biocurator and the conference organizers!

#biocuration #pids #PersistentIdentifier #persistentidentifiers #metaresolver #arks #curies

The summary of our workshop lead by @cthoyt and Ben Gyori at #biocuration2025 is now live at https://biopragmatics.github.io/workshops/biocuration2025.html

📖 Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15184414

📺 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWfbH-TtkE

thanks to @biocurator and the conference organizers!

#biocuration #pids #PersistentIdentifier #persistentidentifiers #metaresolver #arks #curies

The summary of our workshop lead by @cthoyt and Ben Gyori at #biocuration2025 is now live at https://biopragmatics.github.io/workshops/biocuration2025.html

📖 Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15184414

📺 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWfbH-TtkE

thanks to @biocurator and the conference organizers!

#biocuration #pids #PersistentIdentifier #persistentidentifiers #metaresolver #arks #curies

The summary of our workshop lead by @cthoyt and Ben Gyori at #biocuration2025 is now live at https://biopragmatics.github.io/workshops/biocuration2025.html

📖 Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15184414

📺 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWfbH-TtkE

thanks to @biocurator and the conference organizers!

#biocuration #pids #PersistentIdentifier #persistentidentifiers #metaresolver #arks #curies

The summary of our workshop lead by @cthoyt and Ben Gyori at #biocuration2025 is now live at https://biopragmatics.github.io/workshops/biocuration2025.html

📖 Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15184414

📺 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWfbH-TtkE

thanks to @biocurator

#biocuration #pids #PersistentIdentifier #persistentidentifiers #metaresolver #arks #curies

In 2023, ISB members voted to award Sandra Orchard the Exceptional Contribution to Biocuration award (https://www.biocuration.org/pascale-gaudet-and-sandra-orchard-recipients-of-the-2023-exceptional-contribution-to-biocuration-award).

Today at #biocuration2025 in Kansas City, she's presenting her award talk "How will the role of the Biocurator change in this world of Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning?" with a focus on current work at UniProt

#biocuration #uniprot #mods #proteins #complexportal

In 2023, ISB members voted to award Sandra Orchard the Exceptional Contribution to Biocuration award (https://www.biocuration.org/pascale-gaudet-and-sandra-orchard-recipients-of-the-2023-exceptional-contribution-to-biocuration-award).

Today at #biocuration2025 in Kansas City, she's presenting her award talk "How will the role of the Biocurator change in this world of Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning?" with a focus on current work at UniProt

#biocuration #uniprot #mods #proteins #complexportal

Shannon Farrell (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9452-8345) gives the first keynote of the final day of #biocuration2025 on the activities of the Data Curation Network (https://datacurationnetwork.org)

heavy meme game

#fair #open #data #biocuration

The final session of Day 2 of #biocuration2025 is on glycans. Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita explains that the name for GlyTouCan (https://glytoucan.org) is a play on words in Japanese, where "Tou" means sugar!

#glycans #glygen #glytoucan #biocuration

Andy Hickl @Hickl is presenting "From Annotation to Insight: How NLP Transformed Biocuration" at #biocuration2025 to kick off the natural language processing session

What's next? Andy says: anyone who claims to know what's next is either lying to you, or trying to sell you on their startup

#nlp #biocuration #ai #alleninstitute #llms

Just 2 days left to register for #Biocuration2025 ! We have a packed agenda with 15 workshops and 39 talks over 5 days. Both in-person and virtual spots are open. Hope to see you there https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025
#biocuration

Coming to #biocuration2025? Join our workshop scFAIR: FAIRification of single-cell data https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025 @SIB @biocurator @marcrr @fbastian
#scRNAseq #FAIR #biocuration #bgee #FAIRdata #FAIRification #scFAIR #SingleCellAnalysis https://sc-fair.org/

Do you know gget by the Pachter lab? You should! It now includes efficient querying of Bgee in Python. Get high quality curated gene expression data directly in Python or command line. https://pachterlab.github.io/gget/en/bgee.html #RNAseq #biocuration #Python #scRNAseq @SIB @marcrr @fbastian @dee_unil

#bgee #Bioinformatics #RNASequencing #SingleCellRNASeq #Genomics #Transcriptomics #GeneExpression #ComputationalBiology #SingleCellAnalysis #GeneExpressionAnalysis

Do you know gget by the Pachter lab? You should! It now includes efficient querying of Bgee in Python. Get high quality curated gene expression data directly in Python or command line. https://pachterlab.github.io/gget/en/bgee.html #RNAseq #biocuration #Python #scRNAseq @SIB @marcrr @fbastian @dee_unil

#bgee #Bioinformatics #RNASequencing #SingleCellRNASeq #Genomics #Transcriptomics #GeneExpression #ComputationalBiology #SingleCellAnalysis #GeneExpressionAnalysis