ISB2014 WormBase notes

Logistics

Dates: 6-April,2014 - 9-April,2014
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Attendees: 
Caltech: Wen Chen, Xiaodong Wong, Karen Yook, Mary Ann Tuli
Hinxton: Paul Davis
OICR: Abby Cabunoc, Todd Harris, Scott Cain

Links

Site: ISB_meeting
Twitter feed: here, search for #isb2104
Minutes of the meeting taken by Abby and other attendees :

• Schedule of events and notes ISB2014 group notes (with links to etherpad notes and copies of notes as etherpad notes are not permanent).

Speakers

Tim Hubbard (King’s College London, UK)
Suzy Lewis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Patricia Babbit (California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), UCSF) 
Lincoln Stein

Sessions

Clinical Annotations: reflecting databases and resources for clinical annotation of biological samples.

Systems Biology: coordinating the development of the various community standards and formats for computational models, initially in systems biology and related fields. Chairs: Henning Hermjakob & Fritz Roth.

Functional Annotations: attaching biological information to genomics data. Chairs: Iddo Friedberg.

Microbial Informatics: characterizing microbial diversity requires whole genome sequencing coupled with bioinformatics to facilitate genome assembly, gene prediction, and functional annotation. Chairs: Fiona Brinkman & John Parkinson.

Data Integration and Data Sharing: supporting tools and annotation pipelines vary considerably with the data type being curated. Chairs: Gary Bader & Win Hide.

WorkShops

Biological and Clinical Ontologies Chairs: Mike Cherry & Melissa Haendel.

Phenotype Chairs: Judy Blake & Peter D'Eustachio.

Publishing and Curation Chairs: Pascale Gaudet & David Landsman.

Data Curation (Dealing with Supplementary Data) Chairs: Owen White & Francis Ouellette.

Biocreative Text Mining Chairs: Cecilia Arighi and Lynette Hirschman.

Function Prediction Chairs: Iddo Friedberg & Sean Mooney.