The Magic of Biocuration: #Biocuration2025 in Kansas City. Write-up of the recent @biocurator.bsky.social meeting gigasciencejournal.com/blog/the-mag...

GlyGen hosted the 3rd Workshop on Glycan Function Annotation at #BioCuration2025 in Kansas City. We made great progress identifying needs and developing solutions to represent glycan functions across real-world examples of glycobiological complexity. Workshop report coming soon. #glycotime #flyglyco

@rmazumde.bsky.social presenting BiomarkerKB at #BioCuration2025 — a scalable, ontology-driven hub for clinically relevant biomarkers. Built for easy integration into resources like GlyGen using standard formats & open licenses. Missing your favorite biomarker? Tell us!
#biomarkers #dataintegration

We are looking forward to continuing our commitment to advancing disease knowledge and exploring the ideas and collaborations from the conference.

We're already counting down the days until Biocuration 2026 in Cape Town 🧬

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@stowersinstitute.bsky.social

Thank you all for a great conference! #Biocuration2025 Looking forward to next year in Cape Town, South Africa.

That’s a wrap on #Biocuration2025! Thank you to all the speakers, participants, and organizers who made the conference a success. 👏 @biocurator.bsky.social #SciSky

Learn more about the conference: bit.ly/3R4RPCH

Audience: Purpose of the cover letter and CV is to get you the interview. Work your network to get your CV in front of the right person. #Biocuration2025

SO: More often looking at wet lab skills, easier to teach the curation skills hard to teach years of experience #Biocuration2025

MN: Currently no openings but may have some soon, often depending on project lead basis. Positions tend to be relatively stable. Curators are able to move on to other projects #Biocuration2025

Q: Why is everyone on stage a woman
A: Women tend to stand up for service jobs, jobs tend not to be glamorous but are satisfying, flexibility of the work
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Panel discussion with panelists Mardi Nenni, Shannon Farrell, and Sandra Orchard #Biocuration2025

Lots of mentions of soft skills - collaboration is key #Biocuration2025

Most jobs also mention programming skills or being open to learning or interacting with programmers. Also many mentions of ontology tools #Biocuration2025

Most job adds want a PhD and subject matter expertise. Data standards and FAIR standards comes up frequently. Keep in mind job requirements are aspirational #Biocuration2025

Recommendation from the audience to limit search to industry and then add a specific term like 'ontology' to the search #Biocuration2025

Biocuration Generic Job Description – International Society for Biocuration

Handing off to RV - reviewing the generic job description for Biocurators does this need revision or updating? www.biocuration.org/community/bi... #Biocuration2025

Organizers for the workshop Nicole Vasilevsky and Randi Vita
Small number of respondents to the career survey but salaries seemed to have crept up and most report flexible work schedules #Biocuration2025

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Closing out the conference with a careers workshop #Biocuration2025

Q: DBs are notoriously under-cited, any solution for this?
A: Working on it but not yet. Aware that they are hugely under-sampling
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GC: GBC looking to engage more of the community both builders and funders. Expand analysis of the impact of data resources - tertiary citations, patent records #Biocuration2025

GC: Built a network of connections between authors of papers describing data resources #Biocuration2025

GC: Citations for core resources come from all over the world and is fairly even in usage across countries #Biocuration2025

GC: About 17% of publications cite core resources and this is an underestimate, limit to the last 10 years this number is 29% #Biocuration2025

GC: Inventory growth between 2022 and 2023 of 661.
Over 17,000 funding sources for DB related activities #Biocuration2025

GC: Track usage by citations of IDs from resources. Now connecting funders to resources to usage #Biocuration2025

GC: Publication analysis used natural language techniques to identify papers about the resource. #Biocuration2025

GC: Currently 52 core resources determined by expert review of applications.
Publication analysis identified 3,773 unique resources
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Home - Global Biodata Coalition The GBC is a forum for research funders to better coordinate and share approaches for the efficient management and growth of biodata resources worldwide.

GC: Recently published white paper and have a current ongoing open letter campaign globalbiodata.org #Biocuration2025

GC: GBC is a coalition of funders of biodata resources that recognize the fragility of the system and are interested in improved coordination and increased sustainability #Biocuration2025

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Last talk, Guy Cochran from Global Biodata Coalition #Biocuration2025