User benefits of #uniprot are estimated to be on the order of 20 times higher than operational costs https://www.sib.swiss/news/uniprot-user-benefits-up-to-39-times-higher-than-operational-costs
User benefits of #uniprot are estimated to be on the order of 20 times higher than operational costs https://www.sib.swiss/news/uniprot-user-benefits-up-to-39-times-higher-than-operational-costs
#UniProt The largest open+free #knowledgegraph in the life sciences. I will be talking about the why and the use cases at #semantics2025 5th of September 2025. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/sessions?page=1nZsC6p2V3Yk73axR9Jl1NWq1IhVpkqtN
Interesting in his #ISMBECCB2025 keynote that Amos Bairoch described as the worst decision of his career: caving to USA pressure to switch from funding model of free to academics & non-profits to use #SwissProt / #UniProt (with no login barrier), but paid access to Industry - to a free-to-all model funded by an NIH grant.
[I suspect industry lobbying at NIH there. One issue with grants is they are typically fixed term. Also, this would have been a very strong precedent for other DBs to follow - would have been more sustainable ecosystem?]
๐งฌ How do AlphaFold2 and ESMFold stack up when it comes to functional annotation?
๐ AlphaFold2 and ESMFold: A large-scale pairwise model comparison of human enzymes upon Pfam functional annotation. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.01.008
๐ CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/
#AlphaFold2 #ESMFold #AIinScience #ProteinStructure #Enzymes #Pfam #UniProt #AlphaFold #HumanProteome #FunctionalAnnotation #AIinBiology #ComputationalBiology #FunctionalGenomics
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
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