#ismbeccb2025 — Public Fediverse posts

Captured during my flash talk at #ismbeccb2025 in the combined #bosc / #bokr track, about dealing with “adverse legal landscapes” (aka censorship) when you are an ontologist.

For anyone interested, the slides for the talk are there: f1000research.com/slides/14-72…

Captured during my flash talk at #ismbeccb2025 in the combined #bosc / #bokr track, about dealing with “adverse legal landscapes” (aka censorship) when you are an ontologist.

For anyone interested, the slides for the talk are there: f1000research.com/slides/14-72…

Captured during my flash talk at #ismbeccb2025 in the combined #bosc / #bokr track, about dealing with “adverse legal landscapes” (aka censorship) when you are an ontologist.

For anyone interested, the slides for the talk are there: f1000research.com/slides/14-72…

My #BOSC2025 / #ISMBECCB2025 slides on #F1000 now have a DOI: https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1120241.1🚀

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

That’s an end to the formal #BOSC2025 / #ISMBECCB2025 #CoFest - thanks all!

A quick poll in the room suggests there is more interest in doing this next time in the evenings after the tracks, rather than during the day clashing with some of the tracks, or after the formal conference.

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

Cool toys on display at #ISMBECCB2025 #CoFest - Chris Henn using a 3DConnexion 3D mouse for controlling a molecular visualisation viewpoint

Sadly only seeing X/Twitter and BlueSky social media handles from the #ISCB activities during the Town Hall meeting at #ISMBECCB2025 😢

I think I will have a word with one or two ISCB directors…

#ISCB managed to double their travel fellowship fund for #ISMBECCB2025 from USD $20k to $40k, and thus fund another 19 students 🚀

Interesting that #ISCB now bundles dual membership with their African & Australian partner conferences - guess one goal is trying to make their membership less tightly tied to the main annual meeting attendance?, eg #ISMBECCB2025

Voting for #ISCB president & vice-president still open- reminder at the Town Hall at #ISMBECCB2025

#ISCB Town Hall at #ISMBECCB2025 - record membership (over 4200) and attendance (2542, with vast majority in person).

Acknowledged next will be difficult (ISMB 2026 in Washington DC)…

I recon we have just over 50 people in the room for the #ISMBECCB2025 #CoFest project pitches - aiming to draw in new comers to work on something. About 10 with a slide, and 4 brave people just talking to the room.

The #ISMBECCB2025 #CoFest has power and Ethernet from heaven. I mean the ceiling 😉

The #ISMBECCB2025 #CoFest officially starts at 11:20, but you're welcome to join us now.

Online main channel is within the #BOSC2025 slack - links on the page footer: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025/ismb-collaborationfest-2025/

First #Codeberg sticker installed on an #ISMBECCB2025 #CoFest participant's laptop - after a brief chat starting from "What's #Forgejo?" - perfect conversation starters👍

Good morning! The #CoFest (Collaborative Hackathon) at #ISMBECCB2025 will be in Room 2F, basement floor off the lunch / vendors hall.

Bring your Ethernet adapters if you have them (as the venue WiFi has been less than perfect)

I got approached today at #ISMBECCB2025 #BOSC2025 with “Are you the pyANI guy?” (Re https://github.com/pyani-plus/pyani-plus - and yes, one of them).

Confusing as I’m more used to being called the “#Biopython guy” 🤣

The first #biopython mention I’ve caught at #ISMBECCB2025, in the context of pyJASPAR for accessing JASPAR motifs in Python - “JASPAR-Suite: An open toolkit for accessing TF binding motifs” by Aziz Khan #BOSC2025 🧬🐍👍

#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

Good news after unpacking post thunderstorm: The #Codeberg and #Forgejo stickers for the @BOSC #CoFest at #ISMBECCB2025 conference are fine - just some of my clothes that were by the bag zip got damp, but they should dry out for later in the week.

I'm shocked that #ISCB #ISMB2025 #ECCB2025 only offers plane travel advice on their website, nothing about coming by train!
https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/general-info/venue-accommodation-and-travel#travel #ISMBECCB2025