🤖 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "Empowering biological knowledgebases: Advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation" Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag028 Authors include: @matt.jeffry.es, @matthiasblum.bsky.social, @raulrod.bsky.social

Just 1 week to go to the Annual General Meeting. There'll be a short update on ISB business, followed by talks from our Early and Advanced Career Award Winners, Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken. All are welcome. You do not need to be an ISB member to attend. Sign up: forms.gle/wDX7MGHQwgoz...

DT-GPT: showing that LLMs can forecast patient trajectories (1/10) Now in npj Digital Medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also in Doctor Penguin! Big thanks to Maria Bordukova, @raulrod.bsky.social Papichaya Quengdaeng Daniel Garger @fschmich.bsky.social Michael Menden Helmholtz Munich Roche

A new model, DT-GPT, uses LLMs to forecast patient health trajectories, enabling "digital twins." By processing raw EHR data, it outperformed state-of-the-art methods in cancer, ICU, and Alzheimer's cohorts and can even forecast untrained variables. #MedSky #MedAI #MLSky

Ever-interesting Rod Brooks on how the challenges of touch are a barrier to achieving human-level dexterity in robots. Unlike language and sight, we can't get good training data for touch (nor, I might add, for olfaction, proprioception, pain, and interoception). rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-h...

The ISB Annual General Meeting is coming up on October 27th. Register to hear what the society has been working on and to hear from our career award winners! forms.gle/tC5TMZ2ZvFAD...

Long time no live-posting! Wecome to #bc2basel! @SIB#bc2baselhttps://bc2.ch/programme

The ISB Annual General Meeting is on October 27th at 4:00–6:00 pm CST / 3:00–5:00 pm GMT / 11:00 am–1:00 pm EDT / 8:00 am–10:00 am PDT We'll have an update on the society, followed by talks from our career award winners: Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken Register: forms.gle/sDVMzfrYBD7T...

Late to share here on bsky, but so happy with this award! Also: ISB is a beautiful society; if you care about organizing bio data/knowledge, you might benefit from joining it!

What is happening to FlyBase and all the great people there is such a loss to the #Biocuration and #Bioinformatics community. Highly recommend anyone with openings to take the opportunity to employee these folks!

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

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:

The 19th International Biocuration Conference is coming to 🌍 Cape Town, South Africa -April 20–24, 2026 Hosted by @abinstitute.bsky.social with @biocurator.bsky.social , AfriGen-D & SADaCC 🔗 Info: bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/news-events/6 📬Mailing list: bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/mailing-list

I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.

We've extended the nomination deadline for #Biocuration career awards until Friday, June 13. Nomination forms www.biocuration.org/nominations-... Please nominate your favorite biocurator!

"This study compared fine-tuned LLMs (LLaMA2-13B and LLaMA3-8B) against BioMedICUS, a rule-based IE system, for extracting symptoms [...] BioMedICUS outperformed fine-tuned LLMs in most cases." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Just a few days left to nominate a deserving curator for one of the Biocuration Career Awards (1/6) #Biocuration

Still time to submit your nominations! #biocuration

Don’t miss the Basel Computational Biology Conference [BC]2 8–10 Sept., 2025 Basel, Switzerland Keynotes: Serena Nik-Zainal (Univ. of Cambridge, UK), Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) & Julia Merkenschlager (Harvard Medical School, USA) Early bird reg. ends 30 June! www.bc2.ch/registration...

Call for proposals to host the 2027 Biocuration conference is live! If you're in Asia/Oceania and interested in hosting please take a look. If you have questions please reach out to any member of the Executive Committee and we'll do our best to answer. www.biocuration.org/call-for-pro...

so the BERT/BART models are still better for text simplification, text summarization, document classification and entity recognition. But the GPT-type models are better at question answering www.nature.com/articles/s41...

can't really just use an LM as a surrogate for the world or a person. its internal causal model is pretty bespoke. GPT-2 and Llama have very different causal models of the world.

The 18th Annual International Biocuration Conference (stowers.org/events/biocu...) is just a few days away! 🎉 We’re excited to meet you at our upcoming: -Workshop, 'AI and Biodata Resources: Implications for Sustainability and Best Practices in Biocuration' this weekend.

We have a survey up collecting information about the field of biocuration. This information will be incorporated into the biocuration careers workshop during the #Biocuration2025 conference. forms.gle/QGfRoC3caFcU...

PUBMED is down. This is disaster !! We do not have the system and organization to replace it. (EuroPMC is great but not a replacement) It is crystal clear that we cannot depend on critical systems provided by a single provider. European reaction has to include science and science infrastructures.

Prior to the #Biocuration Careers workshop at the #Biocurtation2025 conference, we are conducting a survey of biocurators and data stewards about their jobs. Please respond here: forms.gle/DJ7irabs27em...

The registration deadline for #Biocuration2025 is fast approaching. Registration closes February 28th www.stowers.org/events/biocu...

New post on the ISB website with the list of archived data sets from the community discussion last week. Please let us know if there are others we should add. www.biocuration.org/archived-dat...

I have just renewed my membership in my favorite society, @biocurator.bsky.social. Great network + training & job opportunities + travel fellowships and microgrants. Those working with knowledge management in the life sciences might like to take a look at www.biocuration.org.

Happy to have participated in this industry - academia collaboration funded by the eTRANSAFE European grant that is now published by the Journal of Cheminformatics @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Join us in NYC as a graduate student intern at Prescient Design, Genentech this summer to work on fundamental research in 3D generative models, with applications to protein design! Apply directly, and please share with anyone who may be interested! roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ROG-A2...

The preliminary schedule of talks for Biocuration 2025 is out www.biocuration.org/biocuration-... There is still time to register for the conference at www.stowers.org/events/biocu... Hope to see you there in April! #Biocuration

Most interesting paper today by our friend Raul Rabadan et al., www.nature.com/articles/s41... Washington Post by Mark Johnson www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025... News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Columbia press: www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/new-ai-... tag: @bsc-cns.bsky.social

Want to push the limits of LLMs in drug development? 🚀Apply now for our 2 summer internships for 2025: 1️⃣ Multimodal - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40... 2️⃣ Preclinical - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40... DM me if you have any questions or know anybody who would be interested in this.

@gracielagon's (x.com/gracielagon/...) team appears to be the most prominent! A Bibliometric Analysis of Text Mining: Exploring the Use of Natural Language Processing in Social Media Research www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14...

How to understand patients who do not want to contact healthcare professionals? Our latest preprint deals with this topic: "The lived experience of social anxiety disorder: A conceptual model based on published literature and social media listening." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Medically adapted foundation models (think Med-*) turn out to be more hot air than hot stuff. Correcting for fatal flaws in evaluation, the current crop are no better on balance than generic foundation models, even on the very tasks for which benefits are claimed. arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118