International Society for Biocuration

(4/4) 🧬 Is your lab genome sequencing biodiversity?
Join the global movement to sequence all eukaryotic life on Earth 🌍 Be part of the Genome Revolution 🚀—a once-in-a-generation effort to build the genetic library of life.
🔗 Reach out today, let’s sequence biodiversity, together! 🐛🌿🦎

🙌Thank you for joining the ELIXIR- NIH Office of Data Science Strategy track programme and chatting with us at the ELIXIR booth at #ISMBECCB2025! | ELIXIR 🙌Thank you for joining the ELIXIR- NIH Office of Data Science Strategy track programme and chatting with us at the ELIXIR booth at #ISMBECCB2025! ✨ Our session yesterday covered #ontology and knowled...

The Disease Ontology had a successful presence at #ISMBECCB2025!

Thank you to everyone who attended DO’s talk and took part in the ELIXIR–NIH Office of Data Science Strategy track. See you next time 🧬

www.linkedin.com/posts/elixir...

The 19th International Biocuration Conference is coming to 🌍 Cape Town, South Africa, April 20–24, 2026!
Hosted by:
@abinstitute.bsky.social
@biocurator.bsky.social
AfriGen-D & SADaCC

🔗 Info: bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19t...
📬 Mailing list: bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/mailing-list

Bright yellow and blue background with white DDI logo. Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Training Working Group (DDI-TG): Who, What, and How. Presentation at https://zenodo.org/records/15624555. ddialliance.org

Discover the DDI Alliance Training Working Group: "Who, What, and How" as showcased in their presentation slides from the 2025 IASSIST Conference zenodo.org/records/1562... and at ddialliance.org.

#DDI #MetadataStandard #FAIRdata

🏆 Nominations are open for the 2026 GSA Awards! Honor excellence in genetics across all career stages—creativity, mentorship, education, and more. Self-nominations welcome!
⏰ Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
🧬 Nominate now: buff.ly/JNHMlEb

The July #Technical_Advances update is already here! wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
If you'd like to have your paper with a new technique, reagent, or resource featured in a future update, flag it when you #FTYP

(1/2) 🧬 The Darwin Tree of Life aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi, plants, and protists found in Great Britain and Ireland—🌿🦊🍄🦠
That’s tens of thousands of species, each with a unique genetic story to tell.
🔍 These genomes are unlocking valuable insights, more here: bit.ly/44YS0ap

YouTube video by D4I TDR D4I Tribal Data Repository - Protecting Tribal Data & Why It Matters

The @nativebio.bsky.social is working to create the D4I Tribal Data Repository to uphold Indigenous data sovereignty 🧬🤝

In this video, a few of our collaborators on this project explain what it means to protect tribal data, and why it matters: www.youtube.com/watch?v=twp6...

Save the date for the ISB Annual General Meeting on Oct. 27th when we will hear from our Early and Advanced Career winners about their work.

Congratulations to Ruth Lovering from the University College London, UK for winning the Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration, Lifetime Achievement Award 2025. A photo of Ruth is next to the text.

Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration - Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Ruth Lovering
Ruth has contributed extensively to the curation of key resources such as HGNC, Gene Ontology (GO), and IMEx, and has been instrumental in developing curation standards. Ruth is a past chair of the ISB EC.

Congratulations to Kimberly Van Auken from the California Institute of Technology, USA for winning the Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration, Advanced Career Award 2025. A photo of Kimberly is next to the text.

Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration - Advanced Career Award winner: Kimberly Van Auken
Kimberly's career reflects expertise, sustained innovation, & dedicated service to community. She's contributed to many projects, including WormBase, the Gene Ontology, & the Alliance of Genome Resources.

Congratulations to Tiago Lubiana from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil for winning the Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration, Early Career Award 2025. A photo of Tiago is next to the text.

Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration - Early Career Award winner: Tiago Lubiano.
Tiago's a passionate and motivated scientist interested in linked open data, ontologies, the semantic web, and their application in modeling cells and cell types. He is active in many curation projects & with ISB.

Voting for the 2025 #Biocuration Career Awards has ended. We would like to thank all the nominees, nominators, and voters. These awards celebrate all of the hard work biocurators do everyday to make data FAIR. The winners are:

#ERGAReads | 13 new high-quality cetacean genomes produced by the Cetacean Genomes Project offer key insights into the group's ancestry and adaptation 🐬🐋🧬

🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

#genomics #conservation #cetaceans @ebpgenome.bsky.social @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social @noaa.gov

Unlocking the African bioeconomy and strengthening biodiversity conservation through genomics and bioinformatics - npj Biodiversity npj Biodiversity - Unlocking the African bioeconomy and strengthening biodiversity conservation through genomics and bioinformatics

From the npj Biodiversity journal | Unlocking the African bioeconomy and strengthening biodiversity conservation through #genomics and #bioinformatics | #Africa #OpenScience #Biodiversity 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Figure 1. Types and examples of pathway convergence.

"Pathway-level convergence: an underexplored aspect of convergent evolution"
by Peter Hoitinga (@peter-hoitinga.bsky.social)
& Siri Birkeland (@siribirkeland.bsky.social)‬

"The extent to which evolution is repeatable at the genetic level remains a central question in biology..."

shorturl.at/NXF4k

From bench to code: collaboration unlocks insights into Alzheimer’s disease How a chance encounter resulted in a fruitful cross-Atlantic research collaboration

A poster, a conversation, and a cross-Atlantic collaboration where bioinformatics meets neuroscience to uncover new insights into Alzheimer’s disease 🌍🧠

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
#Alzheimers 🖥️🧬

We’re adding two new UI features to the Genome Browser: a gear icon in the grey bar and an "X" to quickly remove tracks. We’d love your feedback—thanks for helping us improve!

🔗 forms.gle/s2QnMrbEYu...

It's that time again for FaceBase Office Hours!

This Wednesday (tomorrow!) 1pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific!

Meet with FaceBase team members and ask questions about finding data, submitting data, citing data and more!

Click here to register on Zoom: usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT

In the July issue of #G3journal, @terimandakova.bsky.social and the team present the genome of Boechera falcata, the only Eurasian species of the North American plant group, offering clues about how the plant evolved and reproduces.

Read more: buff.ly/KFrBzpd

(1/4) 🧬 Why Sequence the Genomes of Earth’s Biodiversity?
The Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 is a global network of initiatives working together to create a complete genome library for all Eukaryotic life—from mushrooms 🍄 to mammals 🐘.
#biodiversity #genomes #sequence #earthbiogenome #education #stem

📢NEW GENOME ALERT

In #G3journal, Tietjen et al. generated a chromosome-level assembly for Ornithodoros turicata—a tick carrying the causal agent of human relapsing fever & a putative vector of African swine fever virus—offering a new genomic tool to understand tick-borne diseases: buff.ly/DvWsI4D

Making genomics data more representative through Latin American research - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog Genomic research is lacking representative data, which limits our ability to understand diseases and develop treatments. To fix this, we need to prioritise local leadership, capacity building, and equ...

Project JAGUAR, led by the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and Latin American researchers, aims to build the first immune cell atlas representing Latin American populations—addressing equity and ancestry in genomics.

#PacBio is proud to support with #HiFiSequencing.

Read the blog: bit.ly/4l63Kwz

FlyBase.org release FB2025_03 is live! Go enjoy the refreshed data.

UK BIOSCAN Taxonomython The UK BIOSCAN team is organising a "Taxonomython," a collaborative workshop aimed at enhancing species identification within the UK BIOSCAN dataset. It will take place at the Natural History Museum o...

The UK BIOSCAN Team will host a Taxonomython on 23-25 September at the Natural History Museum in London, and invite dipterists and other taxonomic experts to participate.

iboleurope.org/uk-bioscan-t...

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT

In #G3journal, Au et al. present a highly continuous genome assembly of the marine threespine stickleback that breeds in Rabbit Slough in Cook Inlet. This new research will offer new insights into the genomic basis of vertebrate adaptation to natural habitats: buff.ly/uddl4Zn

Making genomics data more representative through Latin American research - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog Genomic research is lacking representative data, which limits our ability to understand diseases and develop treatments. To fix this, we need to prioritise local leadership, capacity building, and equ...

Genomic studies often lack data from Latin American populations, but Project JAGUAR is changing that 💪

“We are laying the foundations for long-term change – in both data and how science is done.” @gosiatrynka.bsky.social

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sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/24/m...

Announcing the Final Release of WormBase It is with heavy hearts but also excitement for the future to announce that the next release of WormBase will also be its last. WS298 — scheduled for release in October 2025 — will be the final major...

WormBase news: the upcoming October release of WormBase.org (WS298) will be the final major WormBase release. WormBase data is being incorporated into AllianceGenome.org. Please see this post for much more information community.alliancegenome.org/t/announcing...

Really important points by @alexbateman1.bsky.social on the importance of curation, addressing some of the myths out there.

Deeply resonates with the commentary Paul Thomas and I wrote last year www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PDBe team's posters viewable today at #ISMBECCB2025:
🧪 106 - Shape retrieval methods for the classification of protein surfaces!

Poster abstracts (search by title or name) available here:
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025...