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.

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

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

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

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!

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

Daniel Haft is presenting "Life Cycle Events for Protein Family Models: Birth, Maturation, Cloning, Retirement at Biocuration 2025" remotely at #biocuration

This talk motivated two new entries in the @bioregistry for Blast Rules (https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/pull/1522) and NCBI's Protein Family Models (tbd)

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

The Global Biodata Coalition is running community webinars on 26 & 27 Feb to discuss their recent White Paper on biodata resource sustainability and seek feedback. View the White Paper and register for the webinar here https://bit.ly/40PyQ4p
#biocuration #database #knowledgebase #bioinformatics

Thanks to Melissa Haendel and the ISB @biocurator for sharing this list of archived datasets in biology, as well as links for context
https://www.biocuration.org/archived-data-sets/ #bioinformatics #biocuration

The Global Biodata Coalition has an open letter campaign to show support for sustainable funding for biodata resources. Please take a minute to read and decide if you want to sign https://globalbiodata.org/open-letter-campaign/
#biocuration #bioinformatics

The ISB annual general meeting is tomorrow, Oct 29th. This is your chance to hear what we have been up to in the past year and hear talks from our 2 career award winners. See https://www.biocuration.org/ for more details and to register. Registration is free and open to all #biocuration

The ISB annual general meeting is just 12 days away. This is your chance to hear what we have been up to in the past year and hear talks from our 2 career award winners. See https://www.biocuration.org/ for more details and to register. Registration is free and open to all #biocuration

Every time an external contributor makes a PR to a curation project that requires an explanation of how to fix it, that's an opportunity to write more curation guides.

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

two notes from today!

1. Our executive committee election starts tomorrow! Please take a look at the candidates list at https://www.biocuration.org/executive-committee-candidates-2024/
2. There's a new job posting from the @emblebi - https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/EBI02284

The ISB EC election starts next week! We have seven great candidates running for the three open spots. Please make sure your membership is up to date by Sept 24 to get your ballot. https://www.biocuration.org/executive-committee-candidates-2024/ #biocuration

We're hosting our 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 at 3-5PM CET / 2-4PM GMT / 10AM-12pm EST / 8-10AM PST

Please register for free here: https://forms.gle/hr9H6z2MKAYC84haA. You'll get a Zoom link after :)

Registration for the 2025 International Society for Biocuration 18th annual conference is now open.
#Biocuration2025 conference will be held April 7-9 at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Pre-meeting workshops will be April 5 & 6.
Learn more about #Biocuration 2025 here: https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025