About International Society of Biocuration

Since 2005, the biocuration community has been holding international conferences, and as of 2010, these have been held under the umbrella of the International Society of Biocuration (http://biocurator.org). The goals of the conference are for the participants to present and promote their various projects, exchange ideas, and foster collaborations. The audience is mostly composed of biocurators and programmers from various public and private databases and companies. 
The yearly International Biocuration Conferences are attended by around 300 experts in the field. The 2016 Biocuration Conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. 
The conference covers a broad range of topics, including Functional Annotation, Phenotypes, genotypes, and variants, Clinical annotations, diseases, drugs, Big data to knowledge, Large scale and predictive annotation, Data standards and ontologies, Crowd/community curation, Data integration, data visualization, Curation standards and best practice; inference from evidence; data and annotation quality, Biocuration and the scholarly communication cycle; data publishing and curation, data sharing, International collaborations, Funding strategies, User outreach, and Training and careers in biocuration.