International Society for Biocuration
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The International Society for Biocuration (ISB)[1] was founded in 2008. The society, a non-profit organisation, promotes the field of biocuration and 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]
Aims of the society
The aims of the society include:[3]
- promoting interactions among biocurators
- fostering the professional development of biocurators
- promoting best practices
- ensuring interoperability
- creating and maintaining standards
- promoting relationships with journal publishers.
