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
Twitter feed: http://www.wormbase.org/species/c_elegans/gene/WBGene00044623?query=bus-8#07b-d-6-7b
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Site: http://biocuration2014.events.oicr.on.ca/biocuration

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.