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Travel award applications for the 2027 #Biocuration conference in Japan are open until Dec 3. Application form forms.gle/Xz6pYDHCjJjN...
Conference site: sites.google.com/view/biocura...

Travel Fellowship Application 2027

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is offering 6 in-person travel grants for the Biocuration 2027 Conference in Mishima, Japan. Three for international attendees and 3 for local attendees...

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November 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM

BF Francis Ouellette

@bffo.bsky.social

From the @ebi.embl.org team in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The European Nucleotide Archive in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #WebServer #OpenScience
#ENA #INSDC #Proteomics #Genomics #OpenData #Biocuration | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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The European Nucleotide Archive in 2026

Abstract. The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena), hosted at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, is an open resource that su

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November 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

Blog post on the article by Valerie Wood et al on the perilous stability of knowledgebases that form a core piece of the scientific infrastructure: genestogenomes.org/science-buil...
#Biocuration

Science builds on science, but the databases making that possible are at risk

Scientific discoveries rarely happen in isolation. A finding from one laboratory can inspire an experiment in another, while an observation buried in a decades-old paper might provide the missing piec...

genestogenomes.org

November 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM

BF Francis Ouellette

@bffo.bsky.social

From @rmazumde.bsky.social and colleagues in #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | Exploring protein #Glycosylation across GlyGen, UniProtKB, and related knowledgebases for data integration | #OpenScience #BioCuration #Proteomics #Carbohydrates CC/ @ebi.embl.org | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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Exploring protein glycosylation across GlyGen, UniProtKB, and related knowledgebases for data integration

Abstract. Protein glycosylation plays a crucial role in cellular function, protein stability, and disease mechanisms, making the accurate annotation and in

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October 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM

BF Francis Ouellette

@bffo.bsky.social

From Ali F. Alsulami in #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | MERS-CoV-3D: integrating whole-genome variation, proteome mapping, and structural annotation of MERS-CoV mutations | #OpenScience #BioCuration #Proteomics #3D #Genomics #MERS-CoV | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓🇸🇦 🦠
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MERS-CoV-3D: integrating whole-genome variation, proteome mapping, and structural annotation of MERS-CoV mutations

Abstract. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) remains a high-consequence zoonotic pathogen with recurrent outbreak potential and substa

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October 30, 2026 at 6:14 PM

BF Francis Ouellette

@bffo.bsky.social

From @gbouras13.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Thirteen quick tips for bacteriophage genome annotation | I like all Tips, but particularly TIP | #Bioinformatics #Education #PLOSCBQT #Virus #Genomics #Biocuration | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓🦠 🇦🇺🇨🇦 🇪🇬🇺🇸
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Thirteen quick tips for bacteriophage genome annotation

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October 27, 2026 at 11:55 AM

Disease Ontology (DO)

@diseaseontology.bsky.social

A new release of the Human Disease Ontology (v2026-10-29) is available, including 12,419 diseases.

github.com/DiseaseOntol...

#DiseaseResearch #Ontology #KnowledgeGraph #Bioinformatics #Biocuration #FAIRdata

Release Disease Ontology v2026-10-29 · DiseaseOntology/HumanDiseaseOntology

This release of the Human Disease Ontology includes 12,419 disease classes, 10,149 with textual definitions (81.7%). Translation files include 11,812 labels, 11,456 synonyms, and 6,567 definitions ...

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October 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM

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@modcur.bsky.social

Invisible infrastructure at risk: funding crises threaten global bioscience research academic.oup.com/genetics/art... #biocuration #databases #knowledgebases

Invisible infrastructure at risk: funding crises threaten global bioscience research

Abstract. Modern biology depends on invisible infrastructure that is essential yet precariously funded. Millions of biological observations are interpreted

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October 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM

RCSB Protein Data Bank

@rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Bring your questions about Deposition, Validation, and or Biocuration to this Office Hour on Nov 3
Biocurators will answer general questions or about your specific entry or session
Materials will be not be presented. Breakout rooms will be used as needed

PDB101: Register for the Nov 3 Ask A Biocurator Anything

PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

pdb101.rcsb.org

October 27, 2026 at 4:44 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

The recording of today's ISB Annual General Meeting is up on YouTube youtu.be/TGfhPgO4aZY The award talks start around the 45 minute mark. #Biocuration

ISB Annual General Meeting 2026

YouTube video by International Society for Biocuration

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October 22, 2026 at 7:44 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

There is still time to register for tomorrow's (Oct 22) ISB Annual General meeting www.biocuration.org/annual-gener...
If you already registered and provided an email address, you should receive the your invitation shortly
#biocuration

Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2026 – International Society for Biocuration

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October 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

The AGM is this Thursday. If you just want o hear from our award winners you should plan to join the call around 18:45 CEST
#biocuration #FlyBase #PomBase

International Society for Biocuration @biocurator.bsky.social · 22d

The ISB Annual General Meeting is next week. There is still time to register to hear what ISB has been doing and the talks from our 2 career award winners: www.biocuration.org/annual-gener...
#biocuration

Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2026 – International Society for Biocuration

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October 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

The ISB Annual General Meeting is next week. There is still time to register to hear what ISB has been doing and the talks from our 2 career award winners: www.biocuration.org/annual-gener...
#biocuration

Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2026 – International Society for Biocuration

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October 16, 2026 at 7:44 PM

Olga Meiri Chaim #ScienceNotSilence #Hypersensory #MaskUP #STEAM

@olgachaim.bsky.social

#statistics #liquidbiopsy #blood #Lund #BioFINDER #biocuration #Memory #biomarkers

Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 25d

Permanent biostatistician role with Lund University's Clinical Memory Research group (BioFINDER) on an NIH-funded blood biomarker project. Closes 3 Nov 2026.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/biostati...

Biostatistician: Clinical Memory Research

Permanent biostatistician role with Lund University's Clinical Memory Research group (BioFINDER) on an NIH-funded blood biomarker project. Closes 3 Nov 2026.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

October 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

The ISB EC election results are in! See www.biocuration.org/2026-2027-ec... for results. Thank you to all the candidates, members of the Nominating Committee, and everyone who voted.

2026-2027 EC Election Results – International Society for Biocuration

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October 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM

BF Francis Ouellette

@bffo.bsky.social

From #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | Ensemble multi-retrieval methodologies with reasoning model decision in multi-step biomedical QA | #OpenScience #BioCuration #LLM #QA #QuestionAnswering #Wikipedia #RareDiseases | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓🇰🇷
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Ensemble multi-retrieval methodologies with reasoning model decision in multi-step biomedical QA

Abstract. Robust and trustworthy biomedical question answering (QA) remains a critical challenge for large language models (LLMs), especially in complex do

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October 10, 2026 at 8:09 PM

BF Francis Ouellette

@bffo.bsky.social

From #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | GeneReL: a large language model-powered platform for gene regulatory relationship extraction with community curation | #OpenScience #BioCuration #Bioinformatics #LLM #CommunityDrivenCuration |🧬🖥️🧪🔓🌱 CC/ @tairnews.bsky.social
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GeneReL: a large language model-powered platform for gene regulatory relationship extraction with community curation

Abstract. Gene regulatory networks provide fundamental insights into plant biology, yet extracting structured interaction data from scientific literature r

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October 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM

Disease Ontology (DO)

@diseaseontology.bsky.social

A new release of the Human Disease Ontology (v2026-09-30) is available, including 12,335 diseases.

github.com/DiseaseOntol...

#DiseaseResearch #DiseaseOntology #Bioinformatics #Biocuration #FAIR #ComputationalBiology

Release Disease Ontology v2026-09-30 · DiseaseOntology/HumanDiseaseOntology

This release of the Human Disease Ontology includes 12,335 disease classes, 10,065 with textual definitions (81.6%). Translation files include 11,813 labels, 11,456 synonyms, and 6,567 definitions ...

github.com

September 30, 2026 at 4:16 PM

International Society for Biocuration

@biocurator.bsky.social

The ISB Annual General Meeting is coming up on October 22. We'll give an update on the society and hear from our two career award winners. See www.biocuration.org/annual-gener... for details and to register. The AGM is free and open to all.

Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2026 – International Society for Biocuration

www.biocuration.org

September 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM

EMBL-EBI

@ebi.embl.org

We often get asked what biocurators do so we quizzed our colleague Emily Bowler-Barnett about her role in the UniProt team.

We also explored why biocuration is critical to open science, how AI is changing the field & how Emily's dog got her name 🐕

EMBL @embl.org · Sep 28

A life without UniProt would be like a life without search engines. Many of the things we do with a few taps would take hundreds of hours of research and effort.

This is how Emily Bowler-Barnett describes UniProt, the world-leading resource for protein sequence data.

www.embl.org/news/people-...