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

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

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

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

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

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

At the #biocuration2025 hackathon, we helped CACAO (https://cacao.wiki/) update its link generation using the Bioregistry resolver!

We have a survey up collecting information about the field of biocuration. This information will be incorporated into the biocuration careers workshop during the #Biocuration2025 conference.
https://forms.gle/QGfRoC3caFcUqxZb7

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

The deadline to apply for a travel grant to cover the cost of virtual attendee registration for #Biocuration2025 has been extended until Dec 1. You do need to submit an abstract for a virtual poster to qualify https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrnM3jGNe5lQLZNftIecFEdAznWTXPbRv2FOFmkO3FfaVkVg/viewform?usp=sharing

There is still time to get early bird pricing for
#Biocuration2025
https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025 and to apply for a travel grant to cover either in-person or virtual attendance costs https://www.biocuration.org/2025-applications-for-travel-fellowships/

Abstract submission in-person presentations at #biocuration2025 ends tomorrow! There is still time to submit yours: https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025

The applications for travel awards to attend #biocuration2025 have been extended. We have 2 in-person awards for attendees from low-income countries and 5 virtual awards left. Apply using this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrnM3jGNe5lQLZNftIecFEdAznWTXPbRv2FOFmkO3FfaVkVg/viewform?usp=sharing

The deadline for abstract submission for #biocuration2025 is in 2 weeks! Time to get writing...
https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025

Coming to #biocuration2025? Join our workshop scFAIR: FAIRification of single-cell data https://www.stowers.org/events/biocuration2025 @SIB @biocurator @marcrr @fbastian
#scRNAseq #FAIR #biocuration #bgee #FAIRdata #FAIRification #scFAIR #SingleCellAnalysis https://sc-fair.org/

Applications for travel awards to attend #Biocuration2025 are open until Oct 31! We are offering awards to support both in-person and virtual attendance. Details: https://www.biocuration.org/awards-and-fellowships/travel-fellowship/