3rd International Biocuration Conference
April 16-19, 2009, Berlin, Germany
The 3rd International Biocuration Conference will provide a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaboration, and foster a sense of community in this active and growing area of research. Furthermore, we will introduce the newly formed International Society for Biocuration. Participants from academia, government, and industry interested in the methods and tools employed in biocuration are encouraged to attend.
A Framework for BioCuration Workflows (part II)
This is the second part of the talk ‘A Framework for BioCuration Workflows’, given by Martin Krallinger from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre at the ‘Text Mining for the BioCuration Work…
Received 22 April 2009 11:21 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
An Ontology To Represent Knowledge On Animal Testing Alternatives
EU Directive 86/609/EEC for the protection of laboratory animals obliges scientists to consider whether a planned animal experiment can be replaced, reduced or refined (3Rs principle). To meet this…
Received 22 April 2009 19:48 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Annotation and Curation of the Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the worldwide repository for experimentally determined 3D structures of biological macromolecules. Established in 1971 with just seven structures, it presently includ…
Received 27 June 2009 21:41 UTC; Posted 30 June 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Automatisation in UniProtKB / Swiss-Prot Annotation: New Rules and Tools
The development of next generation sequencing technologies promises a massive increase in the rate of submission of new protein sequences to sequence databases such as the Universal Protein Resourc…
Received 04 May 2009 11:27 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Beyond Structure: KiSAO and TEDDY—Two Ontologies Addressing Pragmatical and Dynamical Aspects of Computational Models in Systems Biology
Computational models are becoming more and more the central scientific paradigm for understanding the complexity of living systems. With the increasing number and size of these models there is a gr…
Received 22 April 2009 13:57 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
BioCatalogue: A Curated Web Service Registry For The Life Science Community
Web Services have gained a momentum as a means for packaging existing data and computational resources in a form that is amenable for use and composition by third party applications. The life scien…
Received 22 April 2009 12:59 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
BrainGrab: Capturing Curator Expertise as Reusable Annotation Rules
Experienced biocurators can outperform automated systems on specific genes once they determine which pieces of evidence should drive annotation, and which annotations should be spread. The annotati…
Received 03 June 2009 15:35 UTC; Posted 03 June 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Bringing Text Miners and Biologists Closer Together
The boosting of Biomedical Text Mining (BioTM) research in the last few years has led the way for finally bridging out the gap between text miners and biologists. Beyond the development of enhanced…
Received 27 April 2009 21:29 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Broadening Pfam Protein Sequence Annotations
Pfam is a database of conserved protein families or domains commonly used for genome annotation and sequence classification. It comprises two parts: (1) Pfam-A families, which are fully annotated a…
Received 28 April 2009 13:26 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Cancer Biology Data Curation at the Mouse Tumor Biology Database (MTB)
Many advances in the field of cancer biology have been made using mouse models of human cancer. The Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB, http://tumor.informatics.jax.org) da…
Received 13 May 2009 15:27 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
