Biocurator
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A Biocurator is a Data Curator of Biological Data.
- See: Biocuration Task.
References
2008
- (Howe et al., 2008) ⇒ Doug Howe, Maria Costanzo, Petra Fey, Takashi Gojobori, Linda Hannick, Winston Hide, David P. Hill, Renate Kania, Mary Schaeffer, Susan St Pierre, Simon Twigger, Owen White, and Seung Yon Rhee. (2008). “Big Data: The future of biocuration.” In: Nature, 455.
- In recent years, this challenge has been met by a growing cadre of biologists — 'biocurators' — who manage raw biological data, extract information from published literature, develop structured vocabularies to tag data and make the information available online.