🧬 #Biocuration2026 afternoon workshop!
Hands-on session on African genomics with AfriGen-D, organised by Mr Mamana Mbiyavanga (University of Cape Town).
Featuring a demo of the African Genomic Medicine Portal (AGMP) by Dr Kais Ghedira & Dr Oussema Khamessi.
data analysis & genomic resources 🌍
🚀 Day 2 Workshop – Biocuration2026
Workshop led by Dr. Christopher Meyer (U. of Chicago) on the Gen3 platform for biomedical data commons, meshes & hubs.Demo by Edward Malinowski on deployment (Helm, Kubernetes, cloud).
Moderated by Rym El Fessi & Marwa Khedhiri (IPT)
We are the European Reference Genome Atlas #ERGA community! 🌍🧬
🔹 An open community of 1000+ members and the European node of @ebpgenome.bsky.social
🔹 ERGA connects people and institutions to advance #biodiversity #genomics across Europe
🔗 Learn more & join us: www.erga-biodiversity.eu
777 studies, 745 with summary statistics - the @genesandhealth.bsky.social WES study is now in the GWAS Catalog, aiming to improve health outcomes for South Asian populations. Go explore 👇
www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/publica...
Nominations for the Early and Advanced Biocuration Career awards are open now! Nominations are open through May 15th. Nominate your favorite curator (including yourself) today! For details see: www.biocuration.org/community/bi...
🎤 First workshop at #Biocuration2026!
Great discussions on biocuration in Africa and global collaboration 🌍
Featuring:
ThankGodEbenezer
PatriciaCarvajal
FouziaRadhouani (IPM)
MarwaKhedhiri (IPT)
#Biocuration #EMBLEBI #DataCuration
🧬 Second workshop at #Biocuration2026!
Organised by Mr Wei Kheng Teh (EMBL-EBI), this session focused on spatial transcriptomics, data standards & FAIR principles.
Facilitated by Dr Rym Elfessi (IPT) & Tshinakaho Malesa (eLwazi Open Data Science Platform, South Africa).
📣 Reminder: you still have 3 days to submit a highlight talk or a poster for #ECCB2026.
Don’t miss this chance to present your latest findings & connect with over 1,000 international experts!
👉 More info : eccb2026.org/call-highlig...
📆 Deadline: 20 April
📍31 Aug - 4 Sept 2026 | Geneva, CH
Sponsor Spotlight 🇿🇦
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is driving innovation in global health — from genomics to vaccine development and beyond.
@samrcza.bsky.social
Proud to have them supporting #Biocuration2026 🌍
www.samrc.ac.za
3 days to go! ⏳
Join #IBC2026 in Cape Town 🌍a historic first in Africa. Connect, learn & innovate with the global biocuration community.
👉 www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/training/19t...
The Polyplacophora (chiton) collection at the Museum of Zoology, University of Concepción - spanning 1954-2022 - has been curated and digitised under the Darwin Core standard, now fully accessible via GBIF and OBIS.
See all the details here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#opendata
Some of the models seem to have been used in clinical settings although it’s not clear whether this has led to flawed diagnoses
go.nature.com/3Q7scE0
The countdown continues ⏳ Only 5 days to go until the 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference!
Join us in Cape Town, South Africa 🌍 for a week of learning, collaboration & innovation.
📍 Apr 20–24, 2026
👉 www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/.../19th
...
#IBC2026 #Biocuration2026
Job Summary: The FlyBase project is an international collaboration of ~35 people distributed at several sites. This position is located at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. All FlyBase staff work as a part of a team, in which curators and software engineers collaborate extensively. Each site has its own set of responsibilities. The Harvard FlyBase curators focus on curation/annotation of literature and high-throughput data pertaining to the Drosophila genome, transcriptome and proteome. FlyBase is constantly evolving, seeking both to improve and to expand its role within the Drosophila and wider scientific communities. The ideal applicant will be enthusiastic about participating in this process, bringing to the FlyBase group expertise and ideas concerning emerging directions in Drosophila biology and genomic/proteomic analysis. FlyBase is increasingly integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning tools into its curation workflows. The ideal candidate will be open-minded and enthusiastic about exploring AI-assisted approaches to biological data curation, including the use of large language models and AI coding assistants to accelerate and enhance curation tasks.
Job-Specific Responsibilities: • Reading and abstracting of data from the current Drosophila literature, including its relationship to human disease, physical interactions, and gene expression • Evaluating and validating AI generated annotations and curation suggestions, ensuring accuracy and biological relevance before integration into the database • Using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) to write scripts for data wrangling, format conversion, and routing curation tasks • Providing feedback on AI model outputs and refining prompts to help improve automated curation pipelines and annotation quality over time • Annotation and analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, including gene models, mapped mutations, and regulatory features • Together with curators and developers at other sites, interact with broad research community by answering helpmail and giving presentations and tutorials at research conferences • Handling high-throughput datasets and associated metadata
FlyBase is seeking a new scientific curator at our Harvard University site.
More information here: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We're looking for a few more speakers for the Arabidopsis Bioinformatics session at #ICAR2026 in Singapore. #plantbiology Reach us either @bar-plantbio.bsky.social or us by DM. Deadline: April 30th!
⏳ The countdown is on!
Only a few days to go until #Biocuration2026 in Cape Town 🇿🇦
Join the global biocuration community for learning, collaboration and innovation.
📅 April 20–24, 2026
Learn More: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19t...
#IBC2026 #Biocuration #ScienceCommunity
💡We want to hear from you!
✍️Help us to shape the future of our training offering by completing our 5 minute survey. The survey designed to help us understand current and anticipated training needs in RDM and generative AI in research.
⌛️Deadline 31 May
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/...
The Disease Ontology's website updates are live 🎉
New in DO browser:
-We added copiable PURLS to every disease entry
-We updated searches to accept all characters
-We expanded the relations in the advanced search
-We fixed a number of bugs in the page, search, and trees
📢 NEW GENOME ALERT
In #G3journal, @krynadachowska.bsky.social et al. present a high-density linkage map and chromosome-level assembly of spruce bark beetle, revealing an inversion-rich genome that will be a crucial resource for comparative genomic studies. 🪲
buff.ly/7hiXUon
A panel of experts from multiple social science data archives—including the ARDA, @icpsr.bsky.social, @qdr.bsky.social, and @ropercenter.bsky.social—shared about resources that are widely available for teaching and learning about data. A recording of the workshop is available at the link below.
An example one of the PLX5622 treated P1 skulls. Image by Felix Ma and Jessica M. Rosin.
New on FaceBase 🧬 A new dataset from Ma & Rosin examines how prenatal depletion of CSF1R+ macrophages and osteoclasts disrupts craniofacial development — with effects on the skull, mandible, palate, ear ossicles,
and more. Dataset + publication now available.
www.facebase.org/2026/04/09/r...
From #NCBI Insight | Updated #Bacterial and #Archaeal Reference Genome Collection | #OpenScience #Bioinfornatics #Genomics #Microbial
#OpenData | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
⬇️
ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2026/04/09/b...
Databases and knowledgebases are essential infrastructure for genetics research—supporting data sharing, discovery, and reproducibility across the field.
Read the full April #GENETICS issue: buff.ly/YQA781d
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Call for proposals graphic for FY2027 DDI Priority Funds, with proposals due May 8, 2026 and a link for more information.
📣 Call for Proposals: FY2027 DDI Priority Funds! Members are invited to request support for high-impact initiatives aligned with the #DDIAlliance Strategic Plan that engage and strengthen the #DDI community.
Details: myumi.ch/bVkXp
Deadline: May 8, 2026.
Meet TAIR's own Alyssa Proia, one of the researchers behind #TAIR12, now available on the ENA and NCBI.
phoenixbioinfo.org/meet-the-tea...
#PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis
We're hosting a virtual poster session on June 15th at 17.00 CEST. Submit here: forms.gle/GBBxWynkBHoM...
If you're attending the in-person conference in Cape Town, we also encourage you to submit/present the same poster again virtually!
#biocuration #openscience
"Data biases in genomics"
by Lusine Nazaretyan & Martin Kircher
"With the rapid advancement of machine learning, and particularly large language models, biases from nongenetic or nonmedical data are becoming increasingly relevant..."
Read more here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Check out episode 15 of Decoding the Data Ecosystem, where GlyGen PI’s Dr. Raja Mazumder, Dr. René Ranzinger, and Dr. Michael Tiemeyer sit down with Allissa Dillman and discuss the ins and outs of the GlyGen program.
podcast.show/3847772/epis...
#glycotime #podcast #glycoscience #glygen
This #GENETICS issue includes updates from 12 model organism databases (MODs), knowledgebases, and community resources. The cover image visualizes some of the organisms these resources support displayed in a pair of hands.
Read the April issue: buff.ly/XS22j9J
