tutorials-for-curators.md

Training Materials for Curators

This page collects video tutorials and training materials for curators learning to use AI tools.

OBO Academy AI Training

The OBO Academy Monarch Ontology Training offers regular seminars on ontology development and AI-assisted curation workflows. Key AI-focused sessions include:

Claude Code for Biocuration

• Efficient Biocuration and Bioinformatics with Claude Code Part 1 (October 2025) - Chris Tabone Practical introduction to using Claude Code for biocuration tasks.

• Using AI Coding Apps for Ontology Developers (June 2025) - Chris Mungall Overview of agentic AI tools for ontology development, focusing on Goose and Claude Code.

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Earlier AI Sessions

• Introduction to developing agentic workflows for semantic engineers (April 2025) - Chris Mungall
• AI-assisted ontology editing workflows 2: Validation (April 2024) - Chris Mungall
• AI-assisted ontology editing workflows 1: Generating and Augmenting (March 2024) - Chris Mungall
• Enhancing curation workflows with CurateGPT (November 2023) - Chris Mungall

See the full OBO Academy training calendar for all sessions.

External Resources

• OBO Academy obook - Comprehensive semantic engineering training materials
• Claude Code tutorial for ontology developers - Step-by-step guide for getting started
• DeepLearning.AI Claude Code course - General introduction accessible to non-programmers