Marc Robinson-RechaviGreat choice of ISCB 2025 Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist: Amos Bairoch, 45 years of #biocuration which are foundational to our knowledge of biology in #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics. #ismbeccb2025 @SIB
Amos recognises role #SciHub which helped #biocuration. In Switzerland we are allowed to download pirated papers ;). #ismbeccb2025
“The best biocurators are excited about discoveries in their field”. My experience too. #ismbeccb2025
Amos training #biocurators: “If you read a paper and you didn’t find an error, you didn’t read it carefully enough” #ismbeccb2025 #biocuration
Amos's lament:
"It is quite depressive to think that we are spending millions in
grants for people to perform experiments, produce new
knowledge, hide this knowledge in a often badly written text and
then spend some more millions trying to second guess what the
authors really did and found.” #biocuration #ismbeccb2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2009.3092.1
"It is quite depressive to think that we are spending millions in
grants for people to perform experiments, produce new
knowledge, hide this knowledge in a often badly written text and
then spend some more millions trying to second guess what the
authors really did and found.” #biocuration #ismbeccb2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2009.3092.1
In Switzerland we are lucky to have a long-term funding model through @SIB, even though it hasn’t followed the growth in needs and its future is uncertain. #ismbeccb2025
tiagolubiana@marcrr Thank you so much for posting the highlight of Amos' talk, it is always inspiring — I did not join ISMB this year and I am glad that I could get some highlights from his keynote here!