Welcome to the ISB
Welcome to the International Society for Biocuration's website. The (ISB) is a non-profit organisation for biocurators, developers, and researchers with an interest in biocuration. The society promotes the field of biocuration and provides a forum for information exchange through meetings and workshops.
Conferences
- Thanks to all participants to Biocuration 2012 for a very stimulating great conference! Attendees enjoyed the conference, as shown by the Post-Conference Survey.
- The Journal DATABASE has published 25 papers from work presented at the Biocuration 2012 conference in the Biocuration Virtual Issue.
Announcements
- There is a new DATABASE virtual issue dedicated to BioMart, an open source data federation system, and its applications to different types of biological data. The year 2011 marks the 10 year anniversary of the BioMart project. Building on its achievements and supported by its community of users and developers, the BioMart project delivers data management solutions for scientific research.
- The Alliance for Permanent Access has published a report on integration of data and publications.
- Biocuration survey results are available. A paper describing the main findings will soon be published. We thank all the ISB members who participated in the survey.
- May 8, 2012: Minutes from the May 2012 ISB Executive Committee meeting have been posted.
- Social bookmarking of papers. We would like to collect an exhaustive list of papers on biocuration. To do this, please help us keep the Biocuration-related Connotea tags up to date: