International Society for Biocuration

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB)[1] was founded in 2008. The society, a non-profit organisation, promotes the field of biocuration and provides a forum for information exchange through meetings and workshops. The society's conference, the International Biocuration Conference, has been held in Pacific Grove, California (2005), San José, CA (2007), Berlin (2009), Tokyo, Japan (2010), Washington, DC (2012), Cambridge, UK (2013), Toronto, Canada (2014), Beijing, China (2015) and Geneva, Switzerland (2016). The meeting in 2017 will be held in Stanford, California.

DATABASE is the official journal of the society and it has published the proceedings of the societies conferences since 2009.[2]

Aims of the society

The aims of the society include:[3]

See also

External references

References

  1. ↑ Bateman, A. (2010). "Curators of the world unite: The International Society of Biocuration". Bioinformatics 26 (8): 991–991. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq101. PMID 20305270.
  2. ↑ Gaudet P, Arighi C, Bastian F, Bateman A, Blake JA, Cherry MJ, D'Eustachio P, Finn R, Giglio M, Hirschman L, Kania R, Klimke W, Martin MJ, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Munoz-Torres M, Natale D, O'Donovan C, Ouellette F, Pruitt KD, Robinson-Rechavi M, Sansone SA, Schofield P, Sutton G, Van Auken K, Vasudevan S, Wu C, Young J, Mazumder R (2012). "Recent advances in biocuration: meeting report from the Fifth International Biocuration Conference". Database (Oxford) 2012: bas036. doi:10.1093/database/bas036. PMC 3483532. PMID 23110974.
  3. ↑ Gaudet P, Mazumder R (2012). "Biocuration Virtual Issue 2012". Database (Oxford) 2012: bas011. doi:10.1093/database/bas011. PMC 3308167. PMID 22434845.
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