Are you a scientific literature curator looking for a part time role?
We have an exciting chance for you to join the pathogen-host interactions (PHI-base) team.
The PHI-base database is publicly funded and freely available at http://www.phi-base.org. For the last 20 years, this database has catalogued experimentally verified pathogenicity, virulence and effector genes from fungal, bacterial and protist pathogens, which infect animal, plant, fish, insect and/or fungal hosts. (Urban et al. (2022) Nucleic Acids Research, doi 10.1093/nar/gkab1037)
This knowledge base is used by research scientists investigating many different aspects of the health of humans, animals, cropped plant species, and ecosystems.
You would be working as a biocurator to curate new information into PHI-base from the peer-reviewed literature. Reviewing information submitted to PHI-base by other researchers and professional curators.
The main duties of this role are:
- Literature curation: curate information from publications on pathogen-host interactions and add this to PHI-base by using the PHI-Canto curation tool (https://demo-canto.phi-base.org), Cuzick et al., (2023) doi 10.7554/ eLife.84658
- Ontology development: define new concepts and improve existing concepts in the Pathogen-Host Interaction Phenotype Ontology (PHIPO) and other ontologies developed by the PHI-base team. Also, reuse existing concepts from ontologies and controlled vocabularies developed by other teams (such as the Gene Ontology and the BRENDA Tissue Ontology).
- Literature triage: review monthly batches of publications suggested by our long-term subcontractor (Molecular Connections Pvt Ltd.) and select publications that should be curated by the subcontractor.
- Curation review: review the curation submitted by other curators from the pathogen-host research community (also using the PHI-Canto curation tool). Ensure quality control on the curation performed by Molecular Connections.
- Curation training and knowledge exchange: help to familiarise researchers from other teams in the UK and elsewhere, with the PHI-Canto curation tool and the PHI-base curation process. Share your experience with curation with other interested groups.
You would also be responsible for:
- Presenting internally to colleagues and externally at scientific conferences
- Assisting with grant applications and reports for UKRI
- Writing manuscripts for publication in a range of journals through peer review.
Does this sound like the role for you? Apply now!