#biocuration2024 — Public Fediverse posts

On my way home from the 17th Annual International Biocuration Conference in Delhi. Take a look at the #biocuration2024 for my posts on the speakers and some of the highlights. Looking forward to next year’s #biocuration2025, too!

With the 17th annual international biocuration conference #biocuration2024 coming to a close, we wish a safe trip home to all of the delegates. We hope to see you again in April 2025 for #biocuration2025 in Kansas City

Absolutely huge shout out to the local organizers #biocuration2024

Conference chair Saurab Raghuvanshi delivers a heartfelt goodbye as the conference comes to an end #biocuration2024

We’re finishing the conference with a final panel of experts and veterans, reflecting on their careers and their time at the conference #biocuration2024

For the last talk we of the conference, MS Madhuzudhan presents an analysis of promoter motifs to identify functional relation and physical co-location. Big point made that this relies on biocurated resources like chip atlas, wormbase, flybase, go, etc #biocuration2024

Swapnil Rane is an oncologist interested in image processing and biobanking. He’s presenting his work on using AI/ML approaches towards predicting genetic mutation based on imaging, and giving a perspective on how data curation fits in to this work #biocuration2024

Kshitish Acharya presents his group’s research in gene expression regulation and his identification, clustering, and analysis of promoter clusters. Like many bioinformaticians, his team found themselves doing biocuration! #biocuration2024

Ranjan P is presenting on sequencing and genotyping of sesame crops, a very important oil-producing seed #biocuration2024

2nd photo: working with the seeds is a full day job, like a factory!

Thank you @cthoyt @biocurator for the live coverage of #biocuration2024 !

Conference organizer Mukesh Jain admits he didn’t even know that what his group was doing in data generation, curation, and archival was biocuration, and was happy to be invited to participate in the conference and learn about other members of our field. Now, he’s presenting his work on several crop databases #biocuration2024

Rajendra Joshi presents remotely on the HPC and computer platform at the Indian Center for Development of Advanced Computing with focus on supporting sequencing data processing and storage #biocuration2024

Energy levels are at an all time low after lunch on the last day of the conference, but we're going to power through it and see some great talks featured around Indian applications in agriculture and healthcare #biocuration2024

Mainak Chakraborty gives an overview of how AWS can be used with large life sciences datasets #biocuration2024

Umasri Sankarlal presents on DrugMechDB - a curated database of drug mechanisms #biocuration2024

Ibrahim Roshan Kunmakkattu presents on improving the findability of small molecules in the PDB #biocuration2024

Marcus Bage presents on standardizing protein modifications in the PDB #biocuration2024

Kalpana Panneerselvam presents on the binary and n-ary relationships between proteins and ligands curated by member databases of the IMEx consortium #biocuration2024

Maxim Tsenkov presents updates on AlphaFold, the AlphaFold Protein Database, and clustering with FoldSeek #biocuration2024

Brinda Vallat presents on updates to the Protein Databank (PDB) #biocuration2024

Structural bioinformaticians and who study protein structure and folds routinely use Ramachandran plots to visualize bond angles within proteins and get high level insights. These were developed and popularized in the 1960’s by Indian Physicist G.N. Ramachandran #biocuration2024

“Delhi traffic is harder to predict than protein structure and folds”

Keynote speaker Debasisa Mohamty, director of the Indian National Institute of Immunology, gives a lecture on evaluating machine learning methods for prediction of novel folds and complexes of proteins as well as protein-ligand binding affinity #biocuration2024

Dushyanth Jyothi gives the first presentation of the day on reference proteomes in UniProt #biocuration2024

The third day of #biocuration2024 begins with remarks about International Women’s Day and flowers for our female delegates

Checking out the IBDC’s data center and getting oriented by Saurabh, the conference chair. #biocuration2024

Matt Jeffryes presents the last flash talk of the day on Europe PMC’s literature search tool and annotation platform #biocuration2024

Krishna Tiwari checks another box in conference bingo - ChatGPT!

He’s presenting on the opportunities of using LLMs in curating and maintaining the Reactome Pathway Knowledgebase #biocuration2024

Ulriche Wittig presents on nanopubs from the BioHackathon Europe #biocuration2024

@lubianat presents on connecting Wikidata and OBO Foundry, with great ideas on internationalization, drive by curations, and mappings (among other things) #biocuration2024

With that, the main agenda of the conference is done! Thank you everyone who joined us in Padua for #biocuration2023 and we hope to see you next year in India for #biocuration2024

The #GeneOntology is thrilled to be one of the founding Global Core Biodata Resources, a status neatly described by Guy Cochrane in his fantastic #biocuration2024 keynote as indicating a “keystone species” in the ecosystem of biodata resources.
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RT @biocuration2023
Best way to start the end of the conference : Day 4
Our last keynote speaker : Guy Cochrane on Global Biodata Coalition (GBC)
Forum has been formed to overcome the ex…
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