Microgrant Report: ICBO2018

9th annual International Conference on Biological Ontologies (ICBO2018)
Ontologies for Health, Food, Nutrition and Environment: A partnership with BIG-Data and Analytics

Conference website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu

Oregon State University hosted the 9th annual International Conference on Biological Ontologies (http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu). The theme of the ICBO2018 was Ontologies for Health, Food, Nutrition and Environment A partnership with BIG-Data and Analytics. ICBO2018 was a marquee event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Oregon State University (OSU150).

ICBO2018  attended by over 130 participants from 10 countries, provided a venue for presenting and discussing research, development and usefulness of biomedical ontologies (including human health and diseases, vectors, drugs, bio-chemicals, biodiversity, plants, agriculture, food and environment) on building data standards, annotation workflows and data analytics. Attendees represented significant areas of biology, medicine, ecology, computer science, mathematics, text-mining, data analytics, and software and tool development. Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal from Oregon State University was the Conference Chair. The Conference Program co-Chairs Dr.Chris Mungall from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Dr. Melissa Haendel from the Oregon State University organized the conference program.with help from the Program Committee members The scientific presentations were in the form of 30 plenary talks and 32 posters and software demonstrations.

The three thought-provoking ICBO2018 Keynote talks were given by Dr. Kwan Liu-Ma from the University of California Davis on “Visualization: A Powerful Tool for Data Exploration and Storytelling”, Josh Clark from Big Medium Inc. on “The Care and Feeding of Algorithms” for design, analytics and user engagement and Dr. Parag Chitnis from National Inst. of Food and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) on “Changing Face of Agriculture: Data-driven opportunities for nutrition and health”.

The four invited talks were by Niklaus Grunwald from USDA ARS on “Taxa, metacoder, poppr and vcfR: Four packages for parsing, visualization, and manipulation of genetic, genomic and metagenomic data in R”, David LeBauer from TerraRef project on “Vocabularies, Ontologies, APIs, and Formats for Heterogeneous High Throughput Crop Phenotyping Data”, Carolyn Lawrence from Iowa State University on “GO-MAP Implements CAFA Tools: Improved Automated Gene Function Annotation for Plants” and Matthew Lange from UC Davis on “Designing and Building the IC-FOODS Foundry: Community, Technology, and Standards for a Semantic Web of Food”.

Thirteen pre and post-conference workshop held at ICBO2018 included the Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All The Organisms (POTATO) Aligning phenotype ontologies using design patterns, ONCONTO 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Oncology and Ontology, Ontology-driven text-mining analysis and normalization of free-text specimen descriptions, Data Standards and Knowledge Sharing in Biodiversity -Tools and Applications, Deep Learning in the Life Sciences and Biological pathway curation jamboree. Each of the workshop session included talks, demo, hands-on exercises and discussion forums relevant to their theme.

The Biological pathway curation jamboree was organized by Sushma Naithani of the NSF-funded Gramene database. In the jamboree participants learned about the biocuration process, literature and data mining, pathway analysis, and biocuration tools with particular emphasis on using the Reactome Curator Tool and plant pathways. The curation of plant pathways is an ongoing work of the Plant Reactome database. The workshop report is available from Gramene News.

The day-long pre-conference workshop on Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All The Organisms (POTATO) was a venue to discuss data standards on phenotype annotation tools for pattern-based development (Dead Simple Ontology Design Patterns (DOSDP) and the Ontology Development Kit (ODK). The workshop report is available at Medium

The two-day post-conference workshop “Deep Learning in the Life Sciences” was an introductory hands-on workshop on Machine Learning to train students and researchers working on various biological datasets. The workshop was co-organized with the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB). The instruction was provided by experts from IBM.

The plenary talks and posters were selected after peer-review of over 60 scientific articless. The ICBO2018 conference abstracts are available online. The articles will be published later in an online open access conference proceedings.

We thanks our Sponsors, the International Society for Biocuration, the College of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Department of Environment and Molecular Toxicology, College of Engineering (EECS) and the Sponsored Research Office at Oregon State University and industry partners, Illumina Inc., Sanmita Inc, and Sensiplicity LLC. The conference was partially supported by the grants to Pankaj Jaiswal for the Gramene database (IPGA: Gramene – Exploring Function through Comparative Genomics and Network Analysis; NSF-PGRP Award 1127112)  and the Planteome project (cROP: Common Reference Ontologies and Applications for Plant Biology; NSF-PGRP Award 1340112) and the NIH conference grant to Melissa Haendel and Peter Robinson (Forums for Integrative phenomics; NIH award 1U13CA221044).

ICBO2018 concluded with a vote of thanks and the announcement for 10th ICBO (ICBO2019) to be held at the University at Buffalo, New York, USA.

Registration for Biocuration 2019 now open!

We are pleased to announce that the registration for Biocuration 2019 is now open ! Visit the conference site here: https://www.biocuration2019.org/
or directly access  the registration page at: https://www.biocuration2019.org/registration

The conference will be held on April 7-10th, 2019 at The West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, UK.

You may now submit talk/poster abstracts (https://www.biocuration2019.org/submit-an-abstract) – please read details of the session topics listed on that page before doing so.

May we also remind you of the opportunity to organise workshops, both before and during the conference (https://www.biocuration2019.org/submit-a-workshop)

We are looking forward to seeing you in Cambridge in 2019 !

RESULTS OF 2018 ELECTIONS OF ISB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The results of the 2018 Elections of the ISB Executive Committee are in!

Congratulations to
Frederic Bastian, Sandra Orchard, Jane Lomax and Mary-Ann Tuli

Thank you to the ISB members who participated in this year’s election. A total of 97 members voted, out of the 198 current ISB members (49%).

Welcome Frederic, Jane and Mary-Ann as new members, and congratulations to Sandra for your re-election to a second term. Frederic, Jane and Mary-Ann will fill three open positions when the terms of Ceci Arighi, Suzi Lewis and Zhang Zhang come to completion on 31-October-2018.

Please join us in thanking Ceci, Suzi and Zhang for all their work over the past years!

We would like to also express our sincere gratitude to Lei Lui, who who considered volunteering his time as part of the ISB-EC this year.

We are also very grateful with the following ISB members who volunteered their time for a successful execution of the 2018 EC election:

2018 Nominating Committee:

  • Mike Cherry (Chair)
  • Fiona McCarthy
  • Lilly Winfree
  • Sue Bello
  • Luana Licata

Thank you again for participating in the 2018 ISB electoral process!

Sincerely,
Your Colleagues at the ISB Executive Committee

ISB Newsletter – September 2018

Hello! This is the third quarter newsletter for the International Society for Biocuration, a series providing with the latest information on activities and ideas contributed by our community members

Luana Licata’s recap from ISB fellowship visit to EMBL-EBI

By Luana Licata

The short-term fellowship conferred by the International Society for Biocuration (ISB) has given me the opportunity to spend, as a visitor, two weeks, from the 2nd to the 13th of July 2018, at the EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK.

At the EMBL-EBI, I have been hosted by the IntAct team and I have worked with the Protein Function Team (EMBL-EBI) and the Gene Annotation Team of the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics (UCL, London) and with the Molecular Interaction Team (IntAct, EMBL-EBI). Read more here.

Microgrant funding for GCCBOSC 2018


The first joint event of the Galaxy Community Conference and the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (GCCBOSC 2018) was held from June 25-30 at Portland’s Reed College, and the conference received a microgrant from the ISB to help offer childcare at the conference.  To read more, go here

Hackathons for Education and Rapid Prototyping, Research, and Production

By Ben Busby

Solving a scientific problem or building a new bioinformatics tool in just three days – sound impossible? It’s not, when you bring together groups of participants with diverse backgrounds and skill sets in an NCBI-style hackathon! Unlike competitive hackathons, in which many teams vie to create the best solution to a single problem, NCBI-style hackathons are cooperative, with each team tackling its own project, and sharing ideas and expertise with other teams. Participants have ranged from undergraduates to biomedical librarians to front-end developers to senior bioinformaticians, and over the course of 30 hackathons, they’ve developed over a hundred products. They’ve also benefited from the opportunity to learn from and network with their teammates, and the gratification of (hopefully!) creating a cool new tool or resource that can be shared with the scientific community. Since hackathons bring together participants from varied subject matter and computational backgrounds, who typically wouldn’t collaborate otherwise, teams are able to come up with novel and unique solutions that wouldn’t likely come out of a more traditional scientific setting.

If you’re interested in participating in a hackathon, check out the list of upcoming hackathons happening all over the United States (and the world)! No hackathon happening near you? Run your own! A few tips for planning a successful hackathon:

  • Be realistic about selecting projects – be sure to pick a problem that can feasibly be solved in three days.
  • Make sure to keep your participants fed (and caffeinated) to keep energy and productivity up.
  • Document your work and make it open source so that others can benefit from your work.
  • Most importantly, have fun and meet some new people!

If you’re interested in learning more about hackathons or seeing examples of projects, visit the Biohackathons page or the Hackathons channel at F1000 Research.

ELIXIR Resources for Biocurators

by Peter McQuilton on behalf of ELIXIR

ELIXIR, an intergovernmental organisation that brings together life science resources from across Europe, has a lot to offer biocurators from across the globe. The goal of ELIXIR is to coordinate these resources so that they form a single infrastructure that makes it easier for scientists to find and share data, exchange expertise, and agree on best practices. ELIXIR activities are grouped into five platforms (Compute, Data, Tools, Training and Interoperability), which are developing a range of bioinformatics services and resources. The Interoperability Platform offers a number of useful resources:

  • FAIRsharing (https://www.fairsharing.org) – A manually curated registry of databases (both repositories and knowledgebases), the standards they use (reporting guidelines, ontologies, identifier schema, models and formats), and the funder and journal data policies that recommend their use.
  • Identifiers.org (https://www.identifiers.org) – a universal identifier resolution service for data identifier schemes in the life sciences.
  • Bioschemas.org (https://www.bioschemas.org) – an extension of schema.org that allows the detailed mark-up of biological datasets, data repositories, training and more. Marked-up webpages are used by ELIXIR services and by the new Google Dataset Search Tool.

In addition, those interested in bioinformatics training can use the ELIXIR Training portal, TeSS (https://tess.elixir-europe.org/). TeSS brings together training materials and events from Europe and beyond and links them to other resources within the ELIXIR infrastructure.

Visit the ELIXIR catalogue of services to find out about the full range of resources available through ELIXIR: www.elixir-europe.org/services. For more information about the ELIXIR Platforms visit: https://www.elixir-europe.org/platforms/

The new ISB-TeSS training widget

By Peter McQuilton

Working with the ELIXIR TeSS Training and Events Portal (https://tess.elixir-europe.org/)  and the GOBLET training organisation (https://www.mygoblet.org/), we have added a new widget to the ISB website.

This widget calls the TeSS API directly to provide the latest information on training materials and events around the world. If you have a training event or training materials you would like to add to the widget (which will also mean that material is listed on TeSS and GOBLET) you can add it to the TeSS website here: https://tess.elixir-europe.org/about/registering

Save the date!
12th International Biocuration Conference

West Road concert hall in Cambridge UK will provide the location of the 12th International Biocuration Conference in April 7-10, 2019. This is an ideal forum for biocurators, developers and researchers to collaborate and promote their work within this active and growing community. Participants and submissions are welcome from academia, government and healthcare organisations, and industry. Please check biocuration2019.org, or follow #biocuration2019 on Twitter, for the latest information and details on how to register.

Note that the paper submission deadline for inclusion in the Biocuration virtual issue of Database is October 31st 2018.

Executive Committee Elections

The Executive Committee Elections will be held this fall for 4 vacancies. The following EC member is up for re-election:

The following EC members will be stepping down from the EC:

  • Cecilia Arighi
  • Suzanna Lewis
  • Zhang Zhang

Candidates will be announced on the website by September 28th. The election will run from October 01-08, 2018. Only ISB members are able to vote. More info here: https://www.biocuration.org/isb-ec-elections-2018

Funding Opportunities from the ISB

The ISB offers microgrants to sponsor local and regional short meetings of ISB members to foster synergy of their work efforts.

To promote collaboration and exchange between biocuration groups ISB offers fellowships. The fellowship will fund the visit of a biocurator to another laboratory or organization with extensive experience in biocuration.

Share your news and ideas with the ISB

Have an upcoming paper that you’d like to highlight for the ISB community? Let us know.

We welcome your feedback and ideas. Please contact us at intsocbio@gmail.com

Microgrant report: GCCBOSC 2018


By Karsten Hokamp on behalf of the GCCBOSC 2018 organizing committee

The first joint event of the Galaxy Community Conference and the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (GCCBOSC 2018) was held from June 25-30 at Reed College in Portland, OR. The Galaxy Community supports data-intensive biomedical research through the open-source Galaxy platform. BOSC is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community. This was the 19th annual BOSC, but the first one to be held together with GCC.

The conference brought together over 300 bioinformatics researchers, biocurators, developers and users of open source software from academic and private institutions around the world in a relaxed and collegial atmosphere. A wide range of topics in bioinformatics open source projects, open science and open data were covered. This included workflows, developer tools and libraries, translational/medical bioinformatics, community building and standards for representing and sharing data.

Posters, software demos, birds-of-a-feather meetings, talks, invited keynotes, training, and collaborative work events were presented and held over six days. A panel session discussed the importance and underfunding of documentation and training in open source bioinformatics. Presentations of specific interest to biocurators included reports on miRTop, InterMine and the Mammalian Ortholog and Annotation Database, amongst many others. Several presentations covered resources that support biocurators in their work, such as BioThings Hub, Apollo and JBrowse.

GCCBOSC 2018 sought to be a family-friendly conference, and the ISB Micro-grant helped make this happen. These funds allowed the conference to offer subsidized child care and enabled parents with young children to attend (including one of the keynote speakers). This support for families received a lot of attention, both at the conference and online.

The International Society for Biocuration was listed as a sponsor in the conference materials, including the printed program, presentation slides and web pages.

Luana Licata’s fellowship report

By Luana Licata

The short-term fellowship conferred by the International Society for Biocuration (ISB) has given me the opportunity to spend, as a visitor, two weeks, from the 2nd to the 13th of July 2018, at the EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK.

At the EMBL-EBI, I have been hosted by the IntAct team and I have worked with the Protein Function Team (EMBL-EBI) and the Gene Annotation Team of the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics (UCL, London) and with the Molecular Interaction Team (IntAct, EMBL-EBI).

During my stay, I have been worked on the following topics:

I worked with both Protein Function and Gene Annotation Teams to learn Gene Ontology annotation and how to use Protein2GO. In particular, Ruth Lovering and Rachael Huntley (Gene Annotation, UCL, London) introduced me to GO annotation practices, Extensions and rules and how to use the curation tool, Protein2GO. This has allowed me to start to annotate some proteins and protein relationships involved in the Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) pathway already annotated in SIGNOR database, one of the database that I curate at the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, at University of Rome Tor Vergata. Moreover, with the help of Penelope Garmiri (Protein Function, EMBL-EBI), I had the opportunity to learn the basis of NOCTUA annotation and how to use NOCTUA platform. Noctua annotation allows to combine simple GO annotations in order to generate a network of annotations. This acquired knowledge has allowed me to start to annotate, at a basic level, also in NOCTUA platform some relationships relevant to Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) pathway coming form SIGNOR database in order to be able to produce some GO-CAM models. GO-CAM models are the models produced with Noctua. The final goal of this collaboration has been not only to improve and enhance knowledge about current GO annotation practice but also to be able, in the next future, to represent and compare information relevant to the AML pathway that I have annotated in different ways, such as SIGNOR, GO and NOCTUA annotation.

I worked with the Molecular Interaction Team to further develop protein-nucleic acid interaction annotation in MINT database. In particular, I have learned how biocurators in the Molecular Interaction Team capture information about protein-nucleic acid interactions and I have annotated in the IntAct editor (IntAct curation tool) articles containing information on the interaction between transcription factor and transcribed gene. Moreover, during my visit, working in close contact with colleagues from the molecular interaction team has allowed to strengthen the work of the MINT database (the other database that I coordinate and curate) inside the IMEx Consortium through a better curation coordination.

Executive Committee Election

The election of the new International Society for Biocuration Executive Committee (ISB EC) will be held in October 2018. The Executive Committee is composed of nine (9) members, each with a 3-year term. Being a member of the Executive Committee is a great way to become directly involved with the work of our society, and contribute to the decisions that are taken on behalf of the biocuration community. We would like to encourage all members interested in running for election to get involved in the process.

Serving on the ISB EC minimally involves attending monthly teleconference meetings (1 hour in length) and following up on any action points from meetings, as well as promoting the ISB’s activity to members and non-members. Examples of activities performed by EC members include reviewing micro-grant submissions, preparing call for participation for hosting Biocuration meetings, preparing materials for ISB election, monitoring ISB mail and website. There are specific positions such as Chair, Secretary and Treasurer that will require a larger time commitment, as they will be in charge of leading the steps of the executive committee and by extension the membership.

This year, there are four (4) open positions, as the terms of Sandra Orchard, Cecilia Arighi, Suzanna Lewis and Zhang Zhang will come to completion. (The current ISB EC members are here.)

2018 Electoral Process

A) The Nominating Committee:
A Nominating Committee (NC) has been formed to oversee the electoral process, to review applications, and establish the final list of candidates. We are very grateful for their assistance with the execution of this election. The members of the 2018 Nominating Committee are:

  • Mike Cherry (Chair)
  • Fiona McCarthy
  • Lilly Winfree
  • Sue Bello
  • Luana Licata

B) Instructions to Candidates: 

  1. If you would like to run for a position on the Executive Committee, you must first register your intent with the NC emailing isbelection@gmail.com
  2. Please fill out this form by 31 August 2018, which includes a ‘statement of intent‘, a brief biographical sketch, and a ‘conflict of interests‘ statement describing any activities, memberships of other associations, editorial positions on journals, etc.

C) Timeline:

  • Nominations will be received until 31 August 2018.
  • The NC will review all candidacies and share their selections with the ISB Executive Committee by 14 September 2018.
  • Candidates must be announced to the membership and on website (with letters of intent) by 28 September 2018
  • Voting will take place online over the course of one week from 01-08 October 2018. (Further details about the voting process will be shared soon). Eleanor Williams will act as election officer.
  • Only paying members with registration fees cleared on or before 28 September 2018 will be entitled and allowed to vote. If you pay your registration via bank transfer, please allow at least 2-3 working days for the payment to be processed.

The Nominating Committee is looking forward to receiving your applications!

ISB Newsletter – June 2018

Hello! This is the second quarter newsletter for the International Society for Biocuration, a series providing with the latest information on activities and ideas contributed by our community members; upcoming biocuration-related events; news on ISB funding opportunities and awards; job openings and updates of the ISB Executive Committee activities.

The 1st National Symposium on Database Development and Biocuration (NSDDB 2018) was organized at the University of Delhi. The goal of this symposium was to lay a foundation for a vibrant and active biocuration community in India. Future meetings aim to have hands-on modules on various biocuration techniques and attempts will also be made to forge a close association with the international biocuration community.
Rama Balakrishnan, member of the ISB’s Executive Committee, addressed this meeting via a recording about the mission of the ISB, the various activities that the ISB has been involved in and invited the Indian curation community to join the ISB and make use of the vast networking and other benefits/opportunities that ISB has to offer.

The (Re)usable Data Project

The (Re)usable Data Project assesses how licensing behaviors impact reuse. They created a rubric to determine the reusability of data resources and have applied it to 56 scientific data resources to date. The results show significant barriers to reuse and interoperability.
For more information go to: http://reusabledata.org

MoonProt 2.0 release 

Moonlighting protein is a single protein that has multiple functions. The Jeffery lab at the University of Chicago has recently updated their MoonProt Database. For more information go to: doi:10.1093/nar/gkx1043
The lab plans to continue adding examples of moonlighting proteins and expanding the annotation of the ones that are included.
If you have information to submit to the database or you want to help with moonlight protein curation (as a volunteer), please contact: Connie Jeffery

Need to hire a biocurator?

As an outcome of the Careers in Biocuration Workshop at the Biocuration 2018 conference, a generic position description for the biocuration profession is now available on our website.

Funding Opportunities from the ISB

The ISB offers microgrants to sponsor local and regional short meetings of ISB members to foster synergy of their work efforts.
To promote collaboration and exchange between biocuration groups ISB offers fellowships. The fellowship will fund the visit of a biocurator to another laboratory or organization with long experience in biocuration.

Biocuration Training Materials Available Online

Interested in learning new skills relevant to biocuration? Online educational materials are now available online through GOBLET and via the Elixr TeSS widget on our website.

If you have materials you’d like to contribute and make publicly available, please let us know.

Our first fellow!

Congratulations to Dr. Luana Licata from the MINT database at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, who received our first fellowship. She will visit the Protein Function Team at EMBL-EBI and the Gene  Annotation Team at the UCL London, to learn Gene Ontology (GO) annotation.

Upcoming conferences:

  • Other related meeting and conferences are on our website

Executive Committee Elections 

The Executive Committee Elections will be held this fall for 4 vacancies. The call for nominations for the Executive Committee will be announced soon, please check your inboxes.

Call for volunteers

We have a variety of needs for the ISB, and we’d love your help. Please contact us if you’d like to help out with any of the tasks below:

 Website development and maintenance 
  • Maintain and improve the WordPress site that is running
    .biocuration.org
  • Optimize membership signup / renewal / reporting system.
Social media
  • Contribute to Society’s presence on Twitter and Facebook.
Review committees
  • Contribute to selection of impactful exchange fellowships.
  • Contribute to selection of relevant candidates for the ISB elections.
  • Contribute to selection of ISB awardees.
Reviewers
  • Are you willing to act as a reviewer for journals who need your expertise?
Newsletter
Thank you to Andrei Kiselev for your help with this newsletter.

Share your news and ideas with the ISB

Have an upcoming paper that you’d like to highlight for the ISB community? Let us know.

We welcome your feedback and ideas. Please contact us at intsocbio@gmail.com

Call: Host the 13th International Biocuration Conference

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Dear Colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the International Society for Biocuration would like to once again invite tenders to host the 13th International Biocuration Conference during the Northern Spring or Summer of 2020.

Individuals and organizations interested in applying may do so by sending a proposal to the ISB Executive Committee (intsocbio@gmail.com) on or before August 31,  2018.

The successful bidder will be notified by October 1,  2018. The ISB Executive Committee will publicly announce the selected organization or individuals during the 12th International Biocuration Conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK in April, 2019.

Format:  

Proposals should be short; length should not exceed one side of an A4 or US letter size sheet, using 11 point font.

The proposal should contain:

  • The name and institution of the local organizer
  • Details of the proposed venue for up to 350 participants
  • The range of dates available for the conference
  • A brief outline of a strategic plan to attract a broad range of participants from the Biocuration community
  • As fair gender representation is positively encouraged by the ISB; we would also like to know how the applicant intends to promote this.

In a continued effort to bring our meeting to curators in all geographic regions, we strongly encourage ISB members to put forward proposals to bring the ISB meeting to your region once again, or for the first time! Based on ISB meeting region rotation, for ISB 2020 we are encouraging a location in the Americas, but will also consider other locations.

REGIONS ROTATION:

Asia and Australasia

Europe

Americas

 

We look forward to hearing from you!

Your colleagues at the ISB Executive Committee.

Postgraduate Certificate in Biocuration – University of Cambridge, UK

Launching in October 2018, the Post Graduate Certificate in Biocuration at the University of Cambridge is the first formal educational qualification in the field of Biocuration.
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Developed collaboratively between the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) and EMBL-EBI, this programme has been designed to provide biocurators with a set of practical skills that are applicable across the biological sciences.  Whether you are new to biocuration and looking to develop your skills, or an established curator looking to gain a recognised qualification, this course will provide a strong foundation in the principles of biocuration with additional focus on computational skills, data management and user-experience.
The course is divided into three modules, each including a 3 day workshop followed by a period of self-study through online activities. You do not need to be based in Cambridge to study for this course, but you must be able to attend all workshops.
For more details on the course and to apply, please visit: http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/postgraduate-certificate-biocuration
Applications close 30th June 2018.

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