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AIBC – India. Biocuration, long days, even longer traffic jams.

- March 26, 2024

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The Annual International Biocuration Conference (AIBC) was held for the first in India, at the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC), Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad and co-hosted by the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus. As usual, GigaDB had representation at the event (see write-ups of many previous meetings here), […]

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Curators Capture Cambridge. Biocuration 2019

- May 6, 2019

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The 12th International Biocuration Conference was held in Cambridge, UK from April 7-10th 2019. As regular participants of the meeting you can read our write-ups of the meeting going back to 2012. This is a forum for biocurators and developers to discuss their work and to promote collaboration. GigaScience had a visible presence at Biocuration […]

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Biocuration on the Bund

- April 16, 2018

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GigaScience are regular attendees of the International Biocuration Conference, and you may have read our write-ups ups going back to 2012 edition. This year Biocuration is back behind the bamboo curtain, with the 11th conference held in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai from April 8th-11th and hosted by Fudan University. Symbolised by the spectacular Bund waterfront, […]

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The Annotometer Results Are In…

- May 3, 2016

And the final result from the Annotometer is in! GigaScience Lead Biocurator Chris Hunter updates us and provides lessons on how the GigaCuration Challenge went at last months Biocuration 2016.

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Encouraging community curation through competition

- February 4, 2016

As part of this years BioCuration 2016 event in Geneva we are launching an annotation competition: the Giga-Curation Challenge.

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BioCuration Behind the Bamboo Curtain

- April 28, 2015

Write up of the ISB Biocuration2015 meeting in Beijing that we attended, and leaving a biocuration legacy in China.

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The State of the Curation Nation

- April 3, 2012

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State of the Curation Nation: read our write up of the Biocuration 2012 meeting in Washington DC.

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First day of the ISMB Bio-Ontologies Meeting: useful tools in the data-deluge.

- July 15, 2011

In this era of “big-data” and supposed data-tsunamis, being able to sift through the vast swathes of information and find what you are looking will become more and more important. Key to this process will be the use of controlled vocabularies and ontologies – properly tagging and labelling the data to make it findable, and […]

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