We often get asked what biocurators actually do, so we sat down with Emily Bowler-Barnett to find out more about her role in the UniProt team, and how her life led her down the path of biocuration. We also found out why curation is important to open science, how AI is changing the field, and had a chance to meet Emily’s bouncy border collie. UniProt is a world-leading resource for protein sequence data, jointly run with the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). Georgetown University School of Medicine University of Delaware
A life without UniProt would be like a life without search engines. Many of the things we do with a few clicks would take hundreds of hours of research and effort. That’s how Emily Bowler-Barnett sees UniProt, the world-leading resource for protein sequence data, which is jointly run by the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI, the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). Emily is a Senior Curator and Product Manager, meaning she reads hundreds of scientific publications and curates the data in UniProt, saving scientists huge amounts of time. The first scientist in her family, Emily is a genuine advocate for the power of open science. In her spare time, she loves weightlifting, architectural photography, and training her border collie ‘Nettie’ 🐕, who is named after an often overlooked scientist. A fitting detail for someone whose job includes making sure evidence can be traced back to its source. Find out more about Emily in our latest We are EMBL profile. https://lnkd.in/enpJhka3