Remote MedLINE Curation & MeSH Specialist

Computercraft Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Computercraft is seeking a Biomedical Curator to support the National Library of Medicine at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. The role focuses on reviewing MEDLINE citations indexed with MeSH and adjusting indexing in the PMDM system.

This full-time, remote-eligible position involves manual indexing, gene linking, and QA tasks to ensure indexing accuracy. Strong biology background, MeSH familiarity, and the ability to obtain public trust clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher education in biology, biomedical science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of biomedical vocabulary, principles, and facts sufficient for analyzing scientific literature on diverse biomedical topics.
• Ability to annotate bibliographic citations to the scientific literature with appropriate terms from a controlled vocabulary (MeSH familiarity).
• Ability to obtain public trust clearance

Responsibilities

• Reviewing machine-indexed citations and making adjustments in accordance with established MEDLINE citation curation policy
• Manual indexing (indexing MEDLINE citations with MeSH in the PMDM system)
• Gene linking (linking genes to NCBI’s Gene database)
• Construct PubMed searches to identify citations with missing or incorrect MeSH terms; submit batch correction requests; make manual corrections in PMDM

Skills

NLP/text mining

Information retrieval

Search analytics

Evaluation metrics (precision/recall/F

Controlled vocabularies/MeSH

Biomedical terminology

PubMed/MEDLINE proficiency

Indexing principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in biology/biomedical sciences

Tools

SQL

PubMed/Medline tooling

Git

Job description

Computercraft is seeking a Biomedical Curator to support the National Library of Medicine at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. The role focuses on reviewing MEDLINE citations indexed with MeSH and adjusting indexing in the PMDM system.

This full-time, remote-eligible position involves manual indexing, gene linking, and QA tasks to ensure indexing accuracy. Strong biology background, MeSH familiarity, and the ability to obtain public trust clearance are required.