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.
H-InvDB release 6, a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts
H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB; http://www.h-invitational.jp/) is an integrated database of human genes and transcripts. By extensive analyses of all human transcr…
Received 14 May 2009 02:31 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Literature Triage and Indexing in the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Group
The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI; http://www.informatics.jax.org) group is comprised of several collaborating projects including the Mouse Genome Database (MGD) Pr…
Received 13 May 2009 16:01 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
Studying Biocuration Workflows
As the first phase of a knowledge engineering study of biocuration workflows, we performed a preliminary task-modeling exercise on seven separate bioinformatics systems. This involved constructing …
Received 13 May 2009 17:48 UTC; Posted 14 May 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
Data Curation in Biology – Past, Present and Future
Data curation has been critical in the development of biology from Darwin and Linnaeus to UniProt, the careful collection and organisation of data has been the spring from which new hypotheses and …
Received 06 May 2009 08:51 UTC; Posted 12 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, 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
Standardization in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
Within the UniProt consortium, the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot knowledge base provides the international community with a stable, comprehensive, fully classified, richly and accurately annotated protein s…
Received 04 May 2009 09:41 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Changes in Scholarly Communication and the Potential Impact on Biocuration
Open access in particular and changes in on-line scholarship have the potential to impact biocuration which often involves translating information currently read in papers to knowledge that is foun…
Received 07 May 2009 15:07 UTC; Posted 08 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
IUPHAR-DB: An Expert-Curated, Peer-Reviewed Database of Receptors and Ion Channels
The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology database (IUPHAR-DB) integrates peer-reviewed pharmacological, chemical, genetic, functional and anatomical information on the 354 non-sen…
Received 07 May 2009 15:50 UTC; Posted 07 May 2009
Posted to: Pharmacology, Bioinformatics
Present and future of proteomics data curation at the PRIDE database
Significant progress has been made in improving the accessibility and utility of the large amounts of generated high-throughput proteomics data by the introduction of publicly available proteomics …
Received 05 May 2009 17:45 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Bioinformatics
