Deadline June 1! CFDE's DeCoDE Institute is offering an 8-week virtual course to strengthen practical data-science skills. As a CFDE member, GlyGen supports training that makes biomedical data more accessible and reusable. Learn & register: www.orau.org/cfde-trainingcenter #GlyGen #CFDE

One week left to submit an abstract for the free virtual #Biocuration poster session. The deadline is June 1. Any posters related to the curation of biological data are welcome! You don't need to be an ISB member to participate. www.biocuration.org/events/biocu...

Fincredible resource, for those interested! 🔗 www.phylopic.org/images

👉️ Are you an undergraduate student interested in genetics? 👉 Do you want to learn how to read a research paper properly? 🪱 Read the #WormBase article in the May issue of #GENETICS, which provides a step-wise guide on understanding a #Celegans study. 🔗 buff.ly/fUkhQum

👉 The BMD training portal has been officially launched, and in the last session of the day, we are planning its further development: training.lifewatch.eu/en/categorie...

Nominees for the Excellence in Biocuration Early and Advanced Career Awards are in! Voting opens next Monday, June 1st. Only current ISB members are eligible to vote. Congratulations to all the nominees! www.biocuration.org/nominees-for...

🇨🇦🧬 Thank you to Genome Canada, Genome British Columbia, Genome Alberta, and Génome Québec for supporting the scientific infrastructure and collaborative efforts advancing biodiversity genomics across Canada. @ebpgenome.bsky.social | @genomebc.bsky.social | @genomequebec.bsky.social

🔌 Biological power plant: #Yeast fermentation creates CO2 pressure that drives passive microfluidic pumps. Perfect for space experiments, education, or remote areas where electricity is scarce- just add sugar & yeast! 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 #SpaceYeast 🚀 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

We have two great opportunities to mix and mingle with #DataRescuers. First up: Join us for a LGBTQ Data Rescue Hackathon with @williamsinstitute.bsky.social @icpsr.bsky.social @mapresearch.bsky.social on May 28! www.datarescueproject.org/lgbtq-hackat...

💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Webinar: BioSamples: a FAIR sample metadata archive by @training.ebi.embl.org @embl.org www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu #biosamples #FAIR #datamanagement #metadata

What is the value of open data for the life sciences? 📈 New report by Frontier Economics shows that EMBL-EBI data resources save users an average of 11 hours/week/person, leading to £11.8bn/year in research productivity gains. s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202... #opendata

T-1 Days until TaxonWorks Together together.taxonworks.org BTW there are a ton of #insect #taxonomy talks at TWT, come see what some cutting edge bug world informatics looks like! #entomology #beetles #grasshoppers #fleas #wasps

Today is the final day to nominate your favorite biocurator for the early and advanced career awards. The award includes a small cash prize and speaking slot at the ISB meeting in October. See www.biocuration.org/community/bi... #biocuration

In this episode of #BMDexplained: Robert Waterhouse discusses three key challenges currently facing #biodiversity research: the lack of available data, the diversity of data types and sources, and the integration of data from multiple emerging technologies. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kce...

www.alliancegenome.org version 9.0.0 is now live. In addition to data refreshes from each of the model organism source databases, we've added some new features and made backend improvements. Details are available in the Alliance Release notes www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

🚨 The Disease Ontology is upgrading production file software in July 2026, resulting in changes to OBO & obographs JSON files (hopefully not breaking🤞)! Test release (equivalent to v2026-04-30): github.com/DiseaseOntol... Details: github.com/DiseaseOntol... #DiseaseOntology #OBO #Bioinformatics

Join our colleagues on 21 May 2026 to learn about Ensembl's new Alignments viewer tool!

🧵 Session 9: *Ethics, Data & Governance* #Biocuration2026 | Cape Town Co-Chairs: Victoria Nembaware, Marwa Khedhiri Rapporteurs: Tshinikaho Malesa, Rym El Fessi 🎙️ Speakers: Nicki Tiffin | Ulrike Wittig | Guy Cochrane 👇 Highlights

From @folterj.bsky.social et al., in @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social 's J. of #Microscopy | BIOMERO 2.0: End-to-end #FAIR infrastructure for #bioimaging data import, analysis, and provenance | #OpenScience #OMERO | 🧪🔬🔓 CC/ @eurobioimaging.bsky.social ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧵 Session 10: Environmental, Biodiversity and Climate Resilience #Biocuration2026 Chair: Verena Ras Rapporteurs: Chandre Oosterwyk-Liu, Tanian Natus-Isaacs 🎙️ Speakers: Saurabh Raghuvanshi | Peter Uetz 👇 Highlights

PDBe-SIFTS is now open source 🎉 Developed in collaboration with PDBe (@pdbeurope.bsky.social) and UniProt, it enables fast, accurate residue-level mapping between protein sequences and structures, achieving >93% agreement with curated mappings. Get started: github.com/PDBeurope/SI...

🧵 Session 11: *Future of Biocuration and Expansion of Communities of Practice* #Biocuration2026 Panelists: Kwetchi Takam Ezekiel | Temitope Kolawole | Dominique Anderson | Tsaone Tamuhla 👇 Key discussions

One day left! Nominations close end of day tomorrow, May 15th. #Biocuration

📍Heading to #ARM2026 May 30–June 2, 2026? The #PCODR team will be exhibiting at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Seattle. Come see us in booth 302! https://myumi.ch/P3yzy#ARM2026#PCODR#HealthResearch #DataSharing #ICPSRconference

🧵 Session 8: Data Standards and Ontologies #Biocuration2026 | Cape Town Co-Chairs: Melek Chaouch, Henry Njoku Rapporteurs: Sindi Lukhele, Nouha Miled 🎙️ Speakers: Mónica Muñoz Torres | Wei Kheng Teh | Victoria Nugnes | Damiano Piovesan 👇 Highlights

Regulatory genomics 🧬 Use enhancers, promoters & ENCODE/Ensembl data effectively. Tutorial organized by: Gabriela Merino and Garth Ilsley Register here: 👉 eccb2026.org/registration... #ECCB2026 #GeneRegulation

From @trausch.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARWebServerIssue | GEAR Genomics: a user-friendly, #OpenSource web platform enabling interactive genomic analysis 4 molecular biologists | #Bioinformatics #Webserver #OpenScience #Genomics | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

There are 2 days left to nominate your favorite biocurator for the annual ISB career awards. You don't need to be a member to nominate or be nominated but only members can vote. Anyone who curates biological data is eligible! Details: www.biocuration.org/community/bi...

Are you getting the quarterly TAIR newsletter? 📬 Sign up now ▶️▶️▶️ omniform1.com/forms/v1/lan... #plantscience #plantbiology #Arabidopsis 🧪

🧵 Session 7: *Databases, Knowledgebases and Knowledge Graphs (cont’d)* #Biocuration2026 | Cape Town Chair: Victoria Nugnes Rapporteurs: Verena Ras, Marwa Khedhiri 👇 Highlights

There are 4 days left to nominate your favorite biocurator for the annual ISB career awards. You don't need to be a member to nominate or be nominated but only members can vote. Anyone who curates biological data is eligible! Details: www.biocuration.org/community/bi... #biocuration

European museums, herbaria, biobanks and biological collections: please complete our 5-min survey on access to biological material for genomics research. Responses will support community guidelines. Please share widely: www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean...

The Unified Curation and Annotation System by @dissco.bsky.social, DiSSCover, has outgrown its "Proof of concept" phase and is ready to move on. Take a look at the latest developments! www.dissco.eu/maturing-dis...

🧬 Travel awards available for the 23rd Annual Complex Trait Community Meeting hosted by @jax.org in Portland, Maine! 📊 Present your research 🤝 Build connections at roundtables 💻 Develop skills in technical workshops 📝 Contribute to a community white paper Register here: www.jax.org/education-an...

Our webinar series continues with next week's webinar 'How to fetch data from the Protein Data Bank using PDBe API'. Speaker: Ibrahim Roshan Kunnakkattu, Senior Bioinformatician with @pdbeurope.bsky.social at EMBL-EBI. Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

AI agents + biology? 🤖🧬 Learn how MCP lets LLMs query and reason over biological data. Tutorial organized by: Damian Szklarczyk Register here: 👉 eccb2026.org/registration... #ECCB2026 #AIinBiology

The HGNC looks forward to working within the TransCODE Consortium to name micropeptides and peptideins, a new class of non-canonical ORFs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How useful can #herbarium collections be for genetic monitoring? 🌿 We show that Earth’s currently digitized herbarium specimens can be clustered into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of historical “populations” suitable for population genetic studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧵

The second AI in Biocuration workshop is happening now. The session will be recorded if you can't join us today. calendar.app.google/UNq4UbFo7bq9... #Biocuration

🚨#IDCC27 Call for Submissions is now open! Theme: FAIR DO's: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects This year we will accept submissions in five formats ✅Papers ✅Lightning Talks ✅Posters ✅Demos ✅Workshops ➡️https://bit.ly/3OJMEKV #OpenScience #Research

🔬 Did you know that BiomarkerKB cross-references to 40+ resources, including @glygen.bsky.social, @UniProtKB, ClinVar, ChEBI, PubChem, dbSNP, NCBI Gene & more? Explore BiomarkerKB.org to discover biomarker info and explore addition info through the cross-references! 🧬 #Biomarkers #Bioinformatics

April #Technical_Advances are here early wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...! You can have your paper reporting a cool new resource, technique, or reagent featured in an upcoming month...just flag it when you #FTYP.

Tomorrow is the final day to send in your abstracts for GIGA IV! gigavi.org

EBP Chair Harris Lewin takes the stage 🧬🌍 Lecture starts at 16:44 — tune in for the big-picture vision behind the Earth BioGenome Project and the global effort to sequence life on Earth. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dkH...

Join us next week for the next DRI webinar, this week we introduce the @ads-update.bsky.social with guest speaker @nickyjgarland.bsky.social Register your place ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dri-webina...

We are excited to announce the second session of our “AI in Biocuration” 2026 series happening on May 7th. Please see our website for event details: www.biocuration.org/events/biocu...

📣 #IDCC27 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 9-12 February 2027! Our conference theme is FAIR DO’s: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects. The theme acknowledges the crucial role of people in the work of making digital objects FAIR. ➡️ dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc27

From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARWebServicesIssue | ShapeRNA: an integrated web server for #RNA #Secondary #Structure, ensemble, and functional analysis | #Bioinformatics #WebServices #OpenScience #RNASecondaryStructure | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

REDfly v10 is LIVE!!! This major update brings fully on-line our all-new interface. Finally ALL fields are now searchable & can be downloaded in various formats. Numerous backend changes allow better stability. Send us your feedback on the new design (& any bug reports)! #enhancers #drosophila

Found an unannotated #yeast sequence feature? Here's what you need to do to get it added to 🧬 genome annotation - yeastgenome.org/blog/adding-...