International Society for Biocuration
@biocurator.bsky.social
The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is a non profit organization for biocurators, developers, and researchers with an interest in biocuration. The society promotes the field of biocuration and provides a forum for informatio
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The recording and slides for Dr. Heidi Imker’s excellent talk on Biological Databases Sustainability, are now available on the AgBioData webinars page (www.agbiodata.org/webinars).
Watch here: youtu.be/4sK3Q-WBALA
#AgBioData #Bioinformatics #DataSustainability #ScienceFunding #WebinarResources
Watch here: youtu.be/4sK3Q-WBALA
#AgBioData #Bioinformatics #DataSustainability #ScienceFunding #WebinarResources
Monthly Webinar Schedule | AgBioData
www.agbiodata.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The recording and slides for Dr. Heidi Imker’s excellent talk on Biological Databases Sustainability, are now available on the AgBioData webinars page (www.agbiodata.org/webinars).
Watch here: youtu.be/4sK3Q-WBALA
#AgBioData #Bioinformatics #DataSustainability #ScienceFunding #WebinarResources
Watch here: youtu.be/4sK3Q-WBALA
#AgBioData #Bioinformatics #DataSustainability #ScienceFunding #WebinarResources
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The Disease Ontology Winter 2025 Newsletter is now available 🎉
➡️ figshare.com/articles/med...
#DiseaseResearch #Bioinformatics #FAIR #ComputationalBiology #SemanticWeb
➡️ figshare.com/articles/med...
#DiseaseResearch #Bioinformatics #FAIR #ComputationalBiology #SemanticWeb
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Disease Ontology Winter 2025 Newsletter is now available 🎉
➡️ figshare.com/articles/med...
#DiseaseResearch #Bioinformatics #FAIR #ComputationalBiology #SemanticWeb
➡️ figshare.com/articles/med...
#DiseaseResearch #Bioinformatics #FAIR #ComputationalBiology #SemanticWeb
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🚀 Big news in genome annotation! The latest Nature Methods paper presents Helixer. Developed as part of the @denbi.bsky.social infrastructure, Helixer makes high-quality genome annotations more accessible and efficient for the community.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02939-1
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02939-1
Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods
By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚀 Big news in genome annotation! The latest Nature Methods paper presents Helixer. Developed as part of the @denbi.bsky.social infrastructure, Helixer makes high-quality genome annotations more accessible and efficient for the community.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02939-1
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02939-1
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Congratulations Camille @camillecornet.bsky.social for your chromosome level genome of Erebia cassioides - the genome note is out at @riojournal.com riojournal.com/article/174988 being the first genome note of ERGA Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
The genome sequence of the Common Brassy Ringlet, Erebia cassioides (Reiner & Hohenwarth, 1792) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
We present a chromosome-level genome assembly from a female specimen of the Common Brassy Ringlet Erebia cassioides (Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). The genome consists of a primary as...
riojournal.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Congratulations Camille @camillecornet.bsky.social for your chromosome level genome of Erebia cassioides - the genome note is out at @riojournal.com riojournal.com/article/174988 being the first genome note of ERGA Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
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New Reactome paper in NAR 2026 Databases Issue: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Redesigned Angular interface
ReacFoam & entity-level visualizations
Multi-omics analysis tools
React-to-Me chatbot
FAIR-compliant, CoreTrustSeal certified, and ELIXIR-recognized
🖥️🧬
Redesigned Angular interface
ReacFoam & entity-level visualizations
Multi-omics analysis tools
React-to-Me chatbot
FAIR-compliant, CoreTrustSeal certified, and ELIXIR-recognized
🖥️🧬
The Reactome Knowledgebase 2026
Abstract. The Reactome Knowledgebase (https://reactome.org) is a freely accessible, expert-curated, open-source, and open-data resource that describes huma
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
New Reactome paper in NAR 2026 Databases Issue: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Redesigned Angular interface
ReacFoam & entity-level visualizations
Multi-omics analysis tools
React-to-Me chatbot
FAIR-compliant, CoreTrustSeal certified, and ELIXIR-recognized
🖥️🧬
Redesigned Angular interface
ReacFoam & entity-level visualizations
Multi-omics analysis tools
React-to-Me chatbot
FAIR-compliant, CoreTrustSeal certified, and ELIXIR-recognized
🖥️🧬
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New on the blog! In an interview with Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social, Chief Scientific Officer for @plos.org, she provides insight into their approach to data sharing, visibility and evaluation.
👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...
#dataevaluation #datasharing
👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...
#dataevaluation #datasharing
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New on the blog! In an interview with Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social, Chief Scientific Officer for @plos.org, she provides insight into their approach to data sharing, visibility and evaluation.
👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...
#dataevaluation #datasharing
👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...
#dataevaluation #datasharing
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There's no Alliance webinar this month; you can always check the schedule at the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar.
We're considering holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session in January or February; if you've got questions you'd like to ask us, you can DM this account.
We're considering holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session in January or February; if you've got questions you'd like to ask us, you can DM this account.
Alliance of Genome Resources
www.alliancegenome.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There's no Alliance webinar this month; you can always check the schedule at the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar.
We're considering holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session in January or February; if you've got questions you'd like to ask us, you can DM this account.
We're considering holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session in January or February; if you've got questions you'd like to ask us, you can DM this account.
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www.sib.swiss/news/amos-ba... HGNC are truly shocked and saddened to hear this; Amos was a true force of nature in the field of bioinformatics and will be hugely missed.
Amos Bairoch, Swiss pioneer of bioinformatics, passes away
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our co-founder and Group Leader Amos Bairoch. Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, he shaped the development of bioinformatics over more th...
www.sib.swiss
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
www.sib.swiss/news/amos-ba... HGNC are truly shocked and saddened to hear this; Amos was a true force of nature in the field of bioinformatics and will be hugely missed.
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Attention developers and researchers working with Ensembl programmatically! Upcoming Ensembl API and data access changes are live on our blog. Read more about the new platform, new services, and migration timelines here: www.ensembl.info/2025/12/02/...
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Attention developers and researchers working with Ensembl programmatically! Upcoming Ensembl API and data access changes are live on our blog. Read more about the new platform, new services, and migration timelines here: www.ensembl.info/2025/12/02/...
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🌟Help grow the Galaxy Training Network!
The GTN is powered by community experts like you.
Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here:
training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...
The GTN is powered by community experts like you.
Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here:
training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...
Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material / Tutorial List
Galaxy is a great solution to train the bioinformatics concepts: numerous bioinformatics tools are available (more than 7,000 in the ToolShed), it can be used by people without any computer science sk...
training.galaxyproject.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🌟Help grow the Galaxy Training Network!
The GTN is powered by community experts like you.
Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here:
training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...
The GTN is powered by community experts like you.
Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here:
training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...
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A dataset documenting 14 standardised morpho-functional and fire-related traits for 50 woody species collected from the pine-oak forests of the "Barranca del Cupatitzio" National Park in Michoacán, Mexico.
#ecology #ecosystems #forests
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#ecology #ecosystems #forests
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
Dataset on flammability and functional traits of woody plants in a pine-oak forest of western Mexico
Plant functional traits provide key information about species’ ecological strategies and their responses to environmental disturbances such as fire. This dataset documents 14 morpho-functional traits ...
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A dataset documenting 14 standardised morpho-functional and fire-related traits for 50 woody species collected from the pine-oak forests of the "Barranca del Cupatitzio" National Park in Michoacán, Mexico.
#ecology #ecosystems #forests
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#ecology #ecosystems #forests
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
FINAL DEADLINE — Last chance to submit your abstract for #IBC2026 ! Don't miss the chance to present your work at the meeting in April in South Africa either in-person or virtually. www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocura...
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation
Biocuration 2026 Registration | African Bioinformatics Institute
www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
FINAL DEADLINE — Last chance to submit your abstract for #IBC2026 ! Don't miss the chance to present your work at the meeting in April in South Africa either in-person or virtually. www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocura...
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation
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From a farm in the north of England to the frontiers of bioinformatics, our Group Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a career building the data foundations of modern biology:
“AI is showing how vital data curation really is.”
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
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“AI is showing how vital data curation really is.”
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
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Sandra Orchard: what I’ve learned
EMBL-EBI Team Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a life in protein science, UniProt data curation, and championing open data standards.
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From a farm in the north of England to the frontiers of bioinformatics, our Group Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a career building the data foundations of modern biology:
“AI is showing how vital data curation really is.”
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
🖥️🧬
“AI is showing how vital data curation really is.”
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
🖥️🧬
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📢 We're hiring a Genomics Senior Systems Architect!
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📢 We're hiring a Genomics Senior Systems Architect!
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
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Read about the disease-focused expansion of The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology and its improved alignment with the Human Phenotype Ontology in a recently published article by Susan Bello, Cynthia Smith & co: bit.ly/4amknlO
@modcur.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social
@modcur.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Read about the disease-focused expansion of The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology and its improved alignment with the Human Phenotype Ontology in a recently published article by Susan Bello, Cynthia Smith & co: bit.ly/4amknlO
@modcur.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social
@modcur.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social
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📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar!
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar!
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
Abstract submission for #Biocuration 2026 closes this Friday, Nov. 21st. Don't miss the opportunity to join us, either in person or virtually, next April! Submit your abstract and register here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/tab/6...
African Bioinformatics Institute
www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Abstract submission for #Biocuration 2026 closes this Friday, Nov. 21st. Don't miss the opportunity to join us, either in person or virtually, next April! Submit your abstract and register here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/tab/6...
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Excited to share that GlyGen & BiomarkerKB were featured at #SFG2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Excited to share that GlyGen & BiomarkerKB were featured at #SFG2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
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Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
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Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
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New datasets available on beta.ensembl.org! Highlights include oats from the PanOat project, human assemblies from HPRC Release 2 and the pocket water lily, submitted by
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New datasets available on beta.ensembl.org! Highlights include oats from the PanOat project, human assemblies from HPRC Release 2 and the pocket water lily, submitted by
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
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💡3 days left!
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
💡3 days left!
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
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The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
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🌐 The GlySpace Alliance & Glycan Function Workshop at #SFG2025 brought together researchers, educators and students to advance glycan function annotation and digital representation and lead to great engagement, new examples, and collaborative insights!
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🌐 The GlySpace Alliance & Glycan Function Workshop at #SFG2025 brought together researchers, educators and students to advance glycan function annotation and digital representation and lead to great engagement, new examples, and collaborative insights!
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
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📣 Announcing the new #DDI Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG)! This new initiative will focus on advancing the machine-actionable publication and standardized access to DDI metadata in alignment with the FAIR data principles.
Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1
Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
📣 Announcing the new #DDI Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG)! This new initiative will focus on advancing the machine-actionable publication and standardized access to DDI metadata in alignment with the FAIR data principles.
Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1
Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1