International Society for Biocuration

International Society for Biocurnation
AbbreviationISB
Formation2008
TypeNon-profit organization
Purposepromotes the field of biocuration

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is a non-profit organisation that promotes the field of biocuration and was founded in early 2009.[1] It provides a forum for information exchange through meetings and workshops. The society's conference, the International Biocuration Conference, has been held in Pacific Grove, California (2005), San José, CA (2007), Berlin (2009), Tokyo, Japan (2010), Washington, DC (2012), Cambridge, UK (2013), Toronto, Canada (2014), Beijing, China (2015) and Geneva, Switzerland (2016). The meeting in 2017 will be held in Stanford, California.

Database is the official journal of the society and it has published the proceedings of the societies conferences since 2009.[2]

  1. ^ Bateman, Alex (2010-04-15). "Curators of the world unite: the International Society of Biocuration". Bioinformatics. 26 (8): 991. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq101. ISSN 1367-4803.
  2. ^ Gaudet P, Arighi C, Bastian F, Bateman A, Blake JA, Cherry MJ, D'Eustachio P, Finn R, Giglio M, Hirschman L, Kania R, Klimke W, Martin MJ, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Munoz-Torres M, Natale D, O'Donovan C, Ouellette F, Pruitt KD, Robinson-Rechavi M, Sansone SA, Schofield P, Sutton G, Van Auken K, Vasudevan S, Wu C, Young J, Mazumder R (2012). "Recent advances in biocuration: meeting report from the Fifth International Biocuration Conference". Database (Oxford). 2012: bas036. doi:10.1093/database/bas036. PMC 3483532. PMID 23110974.