Curators of the world unite: the International Society of Biocuration.

摘要

We often take the wealth of biological data that is available for granted. As computational biologists, we can often search the Internet and find a dataset that will fulfill our needs. These are usually made available through one of the hundreds of biological databases that have been created over the last 20 years. The people who marshal this information and put it into the formats that allow us to easily work with it are the unsung heroes of molecular biology. The recently formed International Society of Biocuration (ISB) gives these people a voice. Biocuration can be summed up as the transformation of biological data into an organized form. It is only achieved through the combined efforts of the experimental community who generate the data, the biocurators who organize the data and the software and database developers who make the data available for all to use.