Val Wood
Senior Editor for Computational Resources, Software, and Databases 

Val Wood is the Project Manager and co-PI of PomBase, the model organism knowledgebase for the fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) based in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.

Val has been involved in fission yeast bioinformatics and resources since leading the genome curation effort at the Sanger Institute (Hinxton, UK) from 1997 to 2008. She then served as a data manager in Paul Nurse’s laboratory at Cancer Research UK (2008-2011), contributing to the fission yeast deletion project publications and laying the groundwork for PomBase. Val is also a key contributor to the Gene Ontology (GO) project, serving as an ontology editor and playing a pivotal role in annotation quality control. In recognition of her contributions to biocuration, she received the International Biocuration Society Exceptional Contribution to Biocuration Award in 2019.

Her research interests include: literature curation (particularly community curation and biological pathway curation), investigation of unstudied and understudied proteins, distant orthology detection, ensuring PomBase conforms to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles, and
making biocuration scalable.

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