International Society for Biocuration

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) was founded in 2008. The society, a non-profit organisation, promotes the field of biocuration and provides a forum for information exchange through meetings and workshops. The society's conference, the International Biocuration Conference, has been held in Pacific Grove, California (2005), San José, CA (2007), Berlin (2009), Tokyo, Japan (2010), Washington, DC (2012), Cambridge, UK (2013), Toronto, Canada (2014), Beijing, China (2015) and Geneva, Switzerland (2016). The meeting in 2017 will be held in Stanford, California.

DATABASE is the official journal of the society and it has published the proceedings of the societies conferences since 2009.