Tag: ISB

Calling all Biocurators: the ISB would like your input!

25 March, 2011 (11:23) | General Science | By: Jennifer

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 [...]

Biocuratorious?

16 September, 2009 (15:07) | General Science, Genomics Research | By: Mary

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 [...]

Heads Up: ISB to Hold First Election in September

31 July, 2009 (10:22) | General Science, Genomics News | By: Jennifer

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, [...]

The 3rd International Biocuration Conference was Amazing!

24 April, 2009 (10:56) | General Science | By: Jennifer

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 [...]