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Biocurator

A biocurator is a professional scientist

Scientist

A scientist, in the broadest sense, refers to any person that engages in a system activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy....
who collects, annotates, and validates information that is disseminated by biological

Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
and model organism

Model organism

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

Database

A database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. The structure is achieved by organizing the data according to a database model....
s. The role of a biocurator encompasses quality control of primary biological research data intended for publication, extracting and organizing data from original scientific literature, and describing the data with standard annotation

Annotation

An annotation is an addition made to pragmatics in a book, document, online record, video, or other information.Commonly this is used, for example, in draft documents, where another reader has written notes about the quality of a document at a certain point, "marginalia", or perhaps just underlined or highlighted passages....
protocols and vocabularies that enable powerful queries and biological database

Biological database

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A biocurator is a professional scientist

Scientist

Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
and model organism

Model organism

Database

Annotation

Biological database

Biological databases are libraries of life sciences information, collected from scientific experiments, published literature, high throughput experiment technology, and computational analyses....
inter-operability. Biocurators communicate with researchers to ensure the accuracy of curated information and to foster data exchanges with research laboratories.

Biocurators (also called scientific curators, data curators or annotators) have been recognized as the "museum catalogers of the Internet age".

To annotate data, biocurators commonly employ—and take part in the creation and development of—shared biomedical ontologies

Ontology (computer science)

In computer science and information science, an ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a Domain of discourse and the relationships between those concepts....
: structured, controlled vocabularies that encompass many biological and medical knowledge domains. These domains include genomics

Genomics

Genomics is the study of the genomes of organisms. The field includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping efforts....
and proteomics

Proteomics

Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their protein structure and functional genomics. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, as they are the main components of the physiological metabolic pathways of biological cell....
, anatomy

Anatomy

Anatomy is a branch of biology that is the consideration of the body plan. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy and plant anatomy ....
, animal and plant development

Developmental biology

Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. Modern developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, cellular differentiation and "morphogenesis," which is the process that gives rise to biological tissues, organ s and anatomy....
, biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
, metabolic pathways, taxonomic classification

Alpha taxonomy

Alpha taxonomy is the science of finding, describing and categorising organisms, thus leading to the recognition of proposed taxonomic groups, or taxon , which may then be naming conventions....
, and mutant phenotypes.

Biocurators enforce the consistent use of gene nomenclature

Gene nomenclature

Gene nomenclature is the scientific naming of genes, the units of heredity in living organisms. An international committee published recommendations for genetic symbols and nomenclature in 1957....
guidelines and participate in the genetic nomenclature committees of various model organisms, often in collaboration with the HUGO

Hugo

Hugo is a man given name.Hugo may also refer to one of the following....
Gene Nomenclature Committee (). They also enforce other nomenclature guidelines like those provided by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology....
(IUBMB), one example of which is the Enzyme Commission EC number

EC number

The Enzyme Commission number is a numbering scheme scheme for enzymes, based on the chemical reactions they catalysis.As a system of enzyme nomenclature, every EC number is associated with a recommended name for the respective enzyme....
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