Int Soc BiocurationWe're excited to announce we're starting a podcast "Curate This!" where we interview (bio)curators and have them show us how they work (live!)
In the first episode, we talked with @drsbello about curating mouse genotypes and alleles in @MGI
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FINAL DEADLINE β Last chance to submit your abstract for #IBC2026 ! Don't miss the chance to present your work at the meeting in April in South Africa either in-person or virtually. https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
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Marc Robinson-RechaviAmos was not only a giant of #bioinformatics and #biocuration, but one of the nicest people I've met in academia. His support and advice were invaluable when we were establishing @bgeedb, and I will always remember how warmly he welcomed us to @SIB when I arrived in Switzerland 20 years ago.
https://www.sib.swiss/news/amos-bairoch-swiss-pioneer-of-bioinformatics-passes-away
https://www.sib.swiss/news/amos-bairoch-swiss-pioneer-of-bioinformatics-passes-away
Egon Willighagen@wikipathways still has a good number (200 to 250) pathways that do not have a single reference (which does not mean no references were used): https://www.wikipathways.org/wikipathways-collection/index2#at-least-one-reference
I think we need some gamification here... a few tools that take the GPML or RDF and suggest a relevant lit reference, which then gets posted to this issue tracker (https://github.com/wikipathways/pathway-curation-tasks/issues), listing the WPID and PMID, PMCID, or DOI, and ideally the graphID of the DataNode or Interaction
WikiPathwaysHi everyone, we have updated the author and community pages on our website. Authors can now find curation reports for pathways they started, and Communities can find those too. We hope you like it! https://github.com/wikipathways/wikipathways-help/discussions/203
Charles Tapley Hoytdo you think these computer scientists will take my feedback and add a citation to PDB to their fancy sounding protein ML paper?
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Voting for the 2025 #Biocuration Career Awards has ended. We would like to thank all the nominees, nominators, and voters. These awards celebrate all of the hard work biocurators do everyday to make data FAIR. The winners are:
The 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference will take place from 20th to 24th April 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. More information here:
#ismbeccb2025 opened and is closing with recognition of data quality, #Biocuration and databases. π
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