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Ever
wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out
what we were up to on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday in early June.
A typical Friday in Emma’s week
Fridays are usually meeting-free by design. This allows unbroken time to work deeply on tasks. Such tasks include focused curation, enhancements, or investigation into data quirks or errors. Occasionally, we’re also involved in training, data analysis, or drafting publications. On several recent Fridays, biological curators worked alongside other team members on our recent bioassay annotation paper, particularly in the generation of the gold-standard training set. Our biological curation role also extends to the annotation of the comprehensive drug data that can be found in ChEMBL. This means that we gain an insight into emerging modalities making their way through the clinical pipeline. To capture these entities, curation strategies are continually reviewed and refined. This led to dedicated curation and (re)structuring of proximity-inducing modalities in ChEMBL, and a new annotation for Targeted Protein Degraders for ChEMBL 37. As novel biologics, drug delivery features, and precision medicines continue to make their way into ChEMBL’s drug data, we expect there’ll be another Friday or two spent delving into drug data.
Our weeks vary, and are very much dependent on the release stage and timeline. Although roughly half of our time is spent on core curation of incoming and existing data, there’s always a plethora of tasks demanding our attention and ensuring our role remains fulfilling!
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Emma Manners
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