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We're hosting a virtual poster session on June 15th at 17.00 CEST to supplement our annual in-person conference in Cape Town this April

Participation online is free and doesn't require registration - please submit a poster here: https://forms.gle/GBBxWynkBHoMoxhF7.

If you're attending the in-person conference in Cape Town, we also encourage you to submit/present the same poster again virtually!

#biocuration #openscience

ISB 2026 Virtual Poster Session

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB; https://www.biocuration.org) will be hosting a virtual conference series in 2026 to supplement its in-person conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Participation in the virtual conference series is free, has unlimited capacity, and doesn't require registration. Fill out this form if you would like to present at the virtual poster session on June 15th at 17.00CEST Multiple submissions (i.e., abstracts) are allowed and encouraged. If you're attending the in-person conference in Cape Town, we also encourage you to present the same poster again virtually!

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Int Soc Biocuration Feb 5

We'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

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwvZ9KhfCM

#biocuration #mgi #mouse #podcast #vodcast #fairdata

ISB Presents: Curate This! with Susan Bello

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Int Soc Biocuration Dec 5

FINAL DEADLINE — 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
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation

Biocuration 2026 Registration | African Bioinformatics Institute

Marc Robinson-Rechavi Dec 2

Amos 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

Amos Bairoch, Swiss pioneer of bioinformatics, passes away

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our co-founder and Group Leader Amos Bairoch. Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, he shaped the development of bioinformatics over more th...

Egon Willighagen Nov 30

@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

#bioinformatics #gamification #biocuration

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WikiPathways Nov 15

Hi 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

#openscience #biology #biocuration

Charles Tapley Hoyt Sep 25, 2025

do you think these computer scientists will take my feedback and add a citation to PDB to their fancy sounding protein ML paper?

https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold/issues/4

#biocuration #ml #ai #alphafold #apple

yes

57.1%

no

42.9%

Poll ended at Sep 28, 2025 at 3:31pm.

Please cite the data you used · Issue #4 · apple/ml-simplefold

I'm surprised you have published this work and mention Protein Data Bank accession numbers, but make no mention of the Protein Data Bank (PDB) as the source of the data, nor citation to it. For con...

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Int Soc Biocuration Jul 30, 2025

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:

Int Soc Biocuration Jul 25, 2025

The 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference will take place from 20th to 24th April 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. More information here:

https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19th%20Annual%20International%20Biocuration%20Conference

#biocuration #biocuration2026