#biocuration — Public Fediverse posts

The International Society for #Biocuration (ISB) would like to congratulate the recipients of the 2026 Excellence in Biocuration Early and Advanced Career awards, Pascal Carme (Early) and Steven Marygold (Advanced).

Today is the final day to vote for the nominees for the Excellence in #Biocuration Career awards. If you are an active ISB member you should have received your ballot by email. If you didn't please let us know. https://www.biocuration.org/nominees-for-excellence-in-biocuration-early-and-advanced-career-awards/

Today is the final day to submit an abstract for the free ISB virtual poster session. Any abstract on the #curation of biological data is welcome. You don't need to be an ISB member to participate. #Biocuration https://www.biocuration.org/events/biocuration2026-virtual/

The deadline for the ISB virtual poster session is this coming Monday, June 8th. Get those poster abstract in and join us on June 15th! https://www.biocuration.org/events/biocuration2026-virtual/
#Biocuration

There are 5 days left to submit your poster for the ISB virtual poster session on June 15th. Submissions close June 8th. The session is free and open to all. #Biocuration https://www.biocuration.org/events/biocuration2026-virtual/

Poster abstract submission for the ISB virtual session are open for 1 more week. Please join us to show off all the great work being done to curate biological data https://www.biocuration.org/events/biocuration2026-virtual/
#Biocuration

Two weeks left to submit an abstract for the free virtual #Biocuration poster session. The deadline is June 8. Any posters related to the curation of biological data are welcome! You don't need to be an ISB member to participate. https://www.biocuration.org/events/biocuration2026-virtual/

Nominees for the Excellence in Biocuration Early and Advanced Career Awards are in! Voting opens next Monday, June 1st. Only current ISB members are eligible to vote.
Congratulations to all the nominees! https://www.biocuration.org/nominees-for-excellence-in-biocuration-early-and-advanced-career-awards/
#Biocuration

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

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

#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