The practical biocuration course, which introduced concepts vital to biocuration, ran in May 2023. Here, we have made the course materials available for you to access any time.

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Using these materials

These course materials provide a mixture of pre-recorded lectures, presentations and practicals to help advance your knowledge and skills in the analysis of biological data. You may select your topic of interest from the Course content page to view the relevant materials or work your way through all the course materials.

To find out more about the trainers who created these materials, follow the links from the Course content page or go directly to the Trainer biographies page. You can also find the software requirements for the practicals in the Technical help sheet.

In the Further learning section you may explore the details about the EMBL-EBI’s free access online tutorials and webinars on a variety of life sciences topics.

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Learning outcomes

After the course you should be able to:

• Discuss the varied role of biocurators and different types of biocuration
• Describe how metadata and ontologies are used by biological data resources
• Extract biological data from literature 
• Explain some challenges that arise in biocuration 
• Use some tools and techniques for the handling of biological data

Material collection editors

• Dayane Rodrigues Araujo, EMBL-EBI
• Michele Magrane, EMBL-EBI
• Anna Swan, EMBL-EBI

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.PracticalBiocuration-t.2023.00001.1