Claire O’Donovan, leader of the Protein Function Content team at EMBL-EBI, gives an introduction into biocuration and talks about what it is like to work as a biocurator and the skill sets you need.

This webinar was recorded on 2 March 2016 and is best viewed using Google Chrome and in full-screen mode.

These Online Educational Resources (OERs) cover a variety of topics related to data science and are intended for use in courses, programs, workshops, and related activities.

Modules relevant to biocuration:

• BDK05 Basic Research Data Standards (https://github.com/OHSUBD2K/BDK05-Basic-Research-Data-Standards). Standards for biomedical data, participating in communities that develop them, aiding reproducibility.
• BDK11 Identifiers (https://github.com/OHSUBD2K/BDK11-Identifiers). Introduction to identifiers (modeling, identifying and describing resources and objects.)
• BDK12 Data Annotation And Curation (https://github.com/OHSUBD2K/BDK12-Data-annotation-and-curation). Data preparation, developing standardized quality assurance processes and pipelines.
• BDK14 Ontologies 101 (https://github.com/OHSUBD2K/BDK14-Ontologies-101). Introduction to OWL2 and data reasoning.

Authors: OHSU BD2K team

Type of Material: Presentation slides, videos (in BDK12), exercises, and other resources.

License: CC-BY