Show threadSIB Swiss BioinformaticsApr 28

🎺 Hear ye, hear ye! Fellow students, biocurators, and early-career scientists: your chance to join the [BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference 2025 is here!

Together with the ISB International Society for #biocuration, we offer 2️⃣ #travelgrants incl. free registration.

✅ Open to ISB members
✅ Priority to students, early-careers, and applicants from low/middle-income countries

👉 Submit by 30 April: https://www.bc2.ch/fellowships#isb

#bc2basel @genomic.socialgenomic.social

Fellowships

The [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference is Switzerland's main event in the domain of Computational Biology and one of the major events of its kind in Europe. The conference unites scientists from academia, industry and healthcare.

Int Soc BiocurationApr 9

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.

#biocuration

BioregistryApr 9

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 and the conference organizers!

#biocuration #pids #PersistentIdentifier #persistentidentifiers #metaresolver #arks #curies

Data Standardization and Integration with the Bioregistry at Biocuration 2025

GitHub site for the Biopragmatics Stack

Biopragmatics Stack
Int Soc BiocurationApr 9

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

#biocuration #uniprot #mods #proteins #complexportal

Pascale Gaudet and Sandra Orchard – Recipients of the 2023 Exceptional Contribution to Biocuration Award – International Society for Biocuration

Int Soc BiocurationApr 9

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

#fair #open #data #biocuration

ORCID

Int Soc BiocurationApr 8

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!

#glycans #glygen #glytoucan #biocuration

Glycan Repository

Int Soc BiocurationApr 8

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

#nlp #biocuration #ai #alleninstitute #llms

Int Soc BiocurationApr 8

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)

Add BlastRule by cthoyt · Pull Request #1522 · biopragmatics/bioregistry

This was mentioned by Daniel Haft in the talk entitled Life Cycle Events for Protein Family Models: Birth, Maturation, Cloning, Retirement at Biocuration 2025 Next steps: there's a related sema...

GitHub
Int Soc BiocurationFeb 26
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
18th Annual International Biocuration Conference

Organized by Sofia Robb, Chris Seidel, and Sue Bello Hosted by the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Int Soc BiocurationFeb 25
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
White Paper - Global Biodata Coalition

Global Biodata Coalition