title: Inside FlyBase: biocuration as a career.
abstract: As research in the biological sciences continues to advance at a rapid pace, it is increasingly important that the data be captured, standardized, organized and made accessible to the scientific community. This is the job of a biocurator. Here we describe the process of biocuration from our perspective as FlyBase curators.
authors.affiliation: Harvard University, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: St Pierre
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McQuilton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002321:Career Choice; D003625:Data Collection; D016208:Databases, Factual; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004330:Drosophila; D020407:Internet