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What is biocuration?
Biocuration involves the collection, curation and integration of information related to the biological sciences into databases or resources.
There are a number of roles involved in the curation of biological data, such as biocurators, software developers and researchers.
In this short video, Claire O’Donovan, Head of Metabolomics at EMBL-EBI, briefly explains what a biocurator is.
This video clip was taken from the recorded webinar ‘A guide to the maintenance of life science data by biocurators‘.
Continue to the next page to learn more about the skills and knowledge required to be a biocurator.