International Society for Biocuration

Good news! There is a new episode of the #Genomics Connection #Podcast by @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @iboleurope.bsky.social. 🤩
👉 More information on our website: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/12/12/g...
🔔Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/06SG...

🌍✨ Genome sequencing the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — a Darwin Tree of Life effort, one plant or fungus at a time.
When Kew’s botanical and mycological expertise meets the Tree of Life Programme’s sequencing power, we unlock the evolutionary stories within these collections.
@kewgardens.bsky.social

Drs. Halley-Stott, Hörmanseder, Jullien, and Pasque wrote a perspective on Sir John Gurdon about his mentorship and impact. Published in Nature Communications. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

The DO-KB API /info, /terms, /terms/label, and /search endpoints can now accept and return Spanish disease terminology. To use Spanish pass the Spanish language tag (es) in as the value for the lang parameter (e.g. api.disease-ontology.org/v1/terms/lab...).

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT in #G3journal

The first full chromosome-level assembly of the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae will help develop new approaches to control this major pest of commercial olives. buff.ly/kZNj2hu

The recording and slides for Dr. Heidi Imker’s excellent talk on Biological Databases Sustainability, are now available on the AgBioData webinars page (www.agbiodata.org/webinars).

Watch here: youtu.be/4sK3Q-WBALA

#AgBioData #Bioinformatics #DataSustainability #ScienceFunding #WebinarResources

The Disease Ontology Winter 2025 Newsletter is now available 🎉

➡️ figshare.com/articles/med...

#DiseaseResearch #Bioinformatics #FAIR #ComputationalBiology #SemanticWeb

Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...

🚀 Big news in genome annotation! The latest Nature Methods paper presents Helixer. Developed as part of the @denbi.bsky.social infrastructure, Helixer makes high-quality genome annotations more accessible and efficient for the community.
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02939-1

The genome sequence of the Common Brassy Ringlet, Erebia cassioides (Reiner & Hohenwarth, 1792) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) We present a chromosome-level genome assembly from a female specimen of the Common Brassy Ringlet Erebia cassioides (Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). The genome consists of a primary as...

Congratulations Camille @camillecornet.bsky.social for your chromosome level genome of Erebia cassioides - the genome note is out at @riojournal.com riojournal.com/article/174988 being the first genome note of ERGA Switzerland @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

The Reactome Knowledgebase 2026 Abstract. The Reactome Knowledgebase (https://reactome.org) is a freely accessible, expert-curated, open-source, and open-data resource that describes huma

New Reactome paper in NAR 2026 Databases Issue: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Redesigned Angular interface
ReacFoam & entity-level visualizations
Multi-omics analysis tools
React-to-Me chatbot
FAIR-compliant, CoreTrustSeal certified, and ELIXIR-recognized
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New on the blog! In an interview with Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social, Chief Scientific Officer for @plos.org, she provides insight into their approach to data sharing, visibility and evaluation.

👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

#dataevaluation #datasharing

There's no Alliance webinar this month; you can always check the schedule at the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar.

We're considering holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session in January or February; if you've got questions you'd like to ask us, you can DM this account.

Amos Bairoch, Swiss pioneer of bioinformatics, passes away We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our co-founder and Group Leader Amos Bairoch. Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, he shaped the development of bioinformatics over more th...

www.sib.swiss/news/amos-ba... HGNC are truly shocked and saddened to hear this; Amos was a true force of nature in the field of bioinformatics and will be hugely missed.

Attention developers and researchers working with Ensembl programmatically! Upcoming Ensembl API and data access changes are live on our blog. Read more about the new platform, new services, and migration timelines here: www.ensembl.info/2025/12/02/...

Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material / Tutorial List Galaxy is a great solution to train the bioinformatics concepts: numerous bioinformatics tools are available (more than 7,000 in the ToolShed), it can be used by people without any computer science sk...

🌟Help grow the Galaxy Training Network!
The GTN is powered by community experts like you.
Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here:
training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

Dataset on flammability and functional traits of woody plants in a pine-oak forest of western Mexico Plant functional traits provide key information about species’ ecological strategies and their responses to environmental disturbances such as fire. This dataset documents 14 morpho-functional traits ...

A dataset documenting 14 standardised morpho-functional and fire-related traits for 50 woody species collected from the pine-oak forests of the "Barranca del Cupatitzio" National Park in Michoacán, Mexico.

#ecology #ecosystems #forests

doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

FINAL DEADLINE — Last chance to submit your abstract for #IBC2026 ! Don't miss the chance to present your work at the meeting in April in South Africa either in-person or virtually. www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocura...
#Biocuration #CapeTown #DataScience #Curation

Sandra Orchard: what I’ve learned EMBL-EBI Team Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a life in protein science, UniProt data curation, and championing open data standards.

From a farm in the north of England to the frontiers of bioinformatics, our Group Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a career building the data foundations of modern biology:

“AI is showing how vital data curation really is.”

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

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Image of an animated banana slug with glasses sitting at the ucsc genome browser. Text reads: we're hiring.

📢 We're hiring a Genomics Senior Systems Architect!
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.

Read about the disease-focused expansion of The Mammalian Phenotype Ontology and its improved alignment with the Human Phenotype Ontology in a recently published article by Susan Bello, Cynthia Smith & co: bit.ly/4amknlO

@modcur.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social

📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar!

🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...

#glycotime #glygen #researchtools

Abstract submission for #Biocuration 2026 closes this Friday, Nov. 21st. Don't miss the opportunity to join us, either in person or virtually, next April! Submit your abstract and register here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/tab/6...

Excited to share that GlyGen & BiomarkerKB were featured at #SFG2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!

Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.

#glycotime #biomarker

Hello bluesky community!

I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

New datasets available on beta.ensembl.org! Highlights include oats from the PanOat project, human assemblies from HPRC Release 2 and the pocket water lily, submitted by
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...

💡3 days left!
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration

The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

🌐 The GlySpace Alliance & Glycan Function Workshop at #SFG2025 brought together researchers, educators and students to advance glycan function annotation and digital representation and lead to great engagement, new examples, and collaborative insights!

#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics

Announcing the new Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG). Metadata Powered by DDI logo. Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1

📣 Announcing the new #DDI Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG)! This new initiative will focus on advancing the machine-actionable publication and standardized access to DDI metadata in alignment with the FAIR data principles.

Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1