Are you, or have you ever been a biocurator? If so the International Society for Biocuration requests that you take their career survey, which will take about 10-15 minutes (depending on how much metadata that you include ) and asks about career saticfaction, which tasks you enjoy/don’t enjoy, etc. The goal is to get input [...]
As I’ve posted before, the next Biocuration meeting will be in Tokyo, Oct 11-14th. I recently got notified that they are now accepting abstracts for the meeting: We cordially invite you to join us for Biocuration2010, the Conference of International Society for Biocuration (ISB) and the 4th International Biocuration Conference, is held in Tokyo, Japan, [...]
Are you curious about what biocurators do? It may not surprise you that we at OpenHelix are pretty heavy-duty users of curated information from databases. It might surprise you to know that some of us have been involved in actually curating them as well. In both public and commercial situations, we’ve been on the curation [...]
Just a heads-up that the fairly new International Society for Biocuration is accepting nominations during August for their executive board, with elections to be held in September. I’ve included a bit of their email below, but you can see the whole announcement here, and join the society as well, if you haven’t yet. Dear Colleagues, [...]
That’s right, I got a couple of emails today and the International Society for Biocuration is open for membership! I unofficially joined right after I got home from the 3rd International Biocuration Conference where the society was introduced. I plan on paying my dues shortly after I get this post out, but since I don’t [...]
I’m nowhere close to being able to describe all that I saw and learned at the conference – I have pages and pages of notes, all full of good stuff – but I did want to give you a brief update today. The conference occurred April 16th-20th in Berlin at the brand new Seminaris conference [...]
Today was the beginning of the 3rd annual Biocuration Conference & I’ve already heard an interesting talk by Janet Thornton of EBI. She gave a talk entitled “Data Curation in Biology – Past, Present and Future.” Then Pascale Gaudet spoke on the inauguration of the International Society for Biocuration. Janet talked about lots of interesting [...]
I just got an email that the registration for the 3rd International Biocuration Conference closes this Friday, March 27th. The conference is April 16th-20th in Berlin and if there is ANY way you can get there, I suggest you do! It is a GREAT meeting – I’ve had the pleasure of attending both the 1st [...]
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