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.

Announcements

  • July 29, 2010: The ISB Nominating committee is now accepting candidates for the 2010 Election of the ISB Executive committee. More information about the election process is available here: ISB Election 2010.
  • July 13, 2010: The abstract submission deadline for the 4th International Biocuration Conference has been extended to August 11, 2010.
    The abstract submission form is available. Topics include: Text Mining, Literature Curation, Ontologies, Genome Sequence Annotation, Comparative Genomics, Functional Genomics, Crop/Plant Genome Curation, Community Curation, Data Standardization and Integration, Curation Tools/Workflows, Data Visualization, Journal/Database Interactions and Collaborations, Next Generation Sequence Annotation, and Next Generation Curation.
  • July 7, 2010: Minutes from the July 2010 ISB Executive Committee meeting have been posted.
  • June 1, 2010: Registration for the 4th International Biocuration Conference is now open ! Visit the Biocuration 2010 website to register.
  • June 1, 2010: Minutes from the May 2010 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: