Biomedical Curator

Job Responsibilities

• Reviewing machine-indexed citations and making adjustments in accordance with established MEDLINE citation curation policy
• Manual indexing (manually indexing MEDLINE citations with MeSH in the PMDM system in accordance with established MEDLINE indexing policy)
• Gene linking (linking genes mentioned in MEDLINE citations to NCBI's Gene database)
• Other work to support indexing quality assurance, such as constructing PubMed searches to identify citations with missing or incorrect MeSH publication types or other terms; reviewing lists of citations identified as potentially requiring specific indexing corrections; submitting lists of affected PMIDs as batch correction requests; and making manual corrections in the PMDM system

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's or higher education in biology, biomedical science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of biomedical vocabulary, principles, and facts sufficient for understanding and analyzing scientific literature on diverse biomedical topics such as anatomy, physiology, psychology, genetics, biochemistry, and health care practices; comprehending biomedical concepts (even unfamiliar ones); understanding biomedical vocabulary, its applications, and relationships between terms.
• Ability to annotate bibliographic citations to the scientific literature with appropriate terms from a controlled vocabulary: familiarity with biomedical terminology; knowledge of controlled vocabularies (preferably MeSH); knowledge of the principles of subject indexing (preferably using MeSH).
• Ability to obtain public trust clearance.

Desired Skills/Experience

• Experience with natural language processing (NLP), text mining, or automated text classification/indexing.
• Knowledge of information retrieval, search analytics, and search-user behavior.
• Experience evaluating algorithms using measures such as precision, recall, F1 score, and related performance metrics.
• Experience working with controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, or ontologies.
• Familiarity with biomedical or bibliographic data, particularly MEDLINE, PubMed, and MeSH.
• Experience using SQL, relational databases, version control (e.g., Git), and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of biomedical databases (especially PubMed/MEDLINE) and database search skills, including familiarity with typical practices in biomedical publishing, types of scientific publications, components of citations, and basic bibliographic data; proficiency in constructing complex queries (preferably in PubMed/MEDLINE) using advanced search features, including Boolean operators, search fields, and search filters.
• Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Jira.