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Biocurator

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A biocurator is a professional scientist who curates, collects, annotates, and validates information that is disseminated by biological and model Organism Databases. [1]

36 relations: Anatomy, Annotation, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological database, Biology, Controlled vocabulary, Curator, Database, Developmental biology, Digital curation, DNA annotation, Enzyme Commission number, Gene nomenclature, Genomics, Human Genome Organisation, International Society for Biocuration, International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Metabolic pathway, Model organism, Model organism databases, Nucleic Acids Research, OBO Foundry, Ontology (information science), Open Biomedical Ontologies, Phenotype, PLOS Computational Biology, Protein Data Bank, Proteomics, Rfam, Scientist, Selective breeding, Taxonomy (biology), Text mining, Wikidata, Wikipedia.

Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

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Annotation

An annotation is a metadatum (e.g. a post, explanation, markup) attached to location or other data.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data.

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Biological database

Biological databases are libraries of life sciences information, collected from scientific experiments, published literature, high-throughput experiment technology, and computational analysis.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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Controlled vocabulary

Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Database

A database is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically.

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Developmental biology

Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop.

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Digital curation

Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets.

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DNA annotation

DNA annotation or genome annotation is the process of identifying the locations of genes and all of the coding regions in a genome and determining what those genes do.

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Enzyme Commission number

The Enzyme Commission number (EC number) is a numerical classification scheme for enzymes, based on the chemical reactions they catalyze.

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Gene nomenclature

Gene nomenclature is the scientific naming of genes, the units of heredity in living organisms.

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Genomics

Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of science focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes.

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Human Genome Organisation

The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome.

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International Society for Biocuration

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) was founded in 2008.

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International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology.

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Metabolic pathway

In biochemistry, a metabolic pathway is a linked series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell.

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Model organism

A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Model organism databases

Model organism databases (MODs) are biological databases, or knowledgebases, dedicated to the provision of in-depth biological data for intensively studied model organisms.

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Nucleic Acids Research

Nucleic Acids Research is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press.

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OBO Foundry

The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry (now The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry) is a collaborative experiment involving developers of science-based ontologies.

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Ontology (information science)

In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definition of the categories, properties, and relations of the concepts, data, and entities that substantiate one, many, or all domains.

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Open Biomedical Ontologies

Open Biomedical Ontologies (abbreviated OBO; formerly Open Biological Ontologies) is an effort to create controlled vocabularies for shared use across different biological and medical domains.

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Phenotype

A phenotype is the composite of an organism's observable characteristics or traits, such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, behavior, and products of behavior (such as a bird's nest).

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PLOS Computational Biology

PLOS Computational Biology is a peer-reviewed computational biology journal established in 2005 and published by the nonprofit Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computational Biology.

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Protein Data Bank

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a crystallographic database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids.

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Proteomics

Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins.

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Rfam

Rfam is a database containing information about non-coding RNA (ncRNA) families and other structured RNA elements.

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Scientist

A scientist is a person engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge that describes and predicts the natural world.

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Selective breeding

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

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Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

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Text mining

Text mining, also referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, is the process of deriving high-quality information from text.

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Wikidata

Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocurator

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