Randi Vita addresses a big question: what is a biocurator, how can employers make biocuration jobs easier to find, and how can biocurators find jobs?

#biocuration2025

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

Data Standardization and Integration with the Bioregistry at Biocuration 2025

GitHub site for the Biopragmatics Stack

Biopragmatics Stack

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

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

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

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

Paul Thomas from @go starts day 2 of #biocuration2025 with his keynote entitled "Annotating and predicting gene functions through evolution and revolution"
We had a great time at our workshop on FAIRification of single-cell RNA-Seq data and sharing the goals of #scFAIR at #biocuration2025 @biocurator
Keyword bingo at #biocuration2025 @biocurator - FORCE (FAIR, open, research object-based, citable ecosystem) from Chris Hunter describing GigaDB and GigaScience