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.
The GABI Primary Database: GABIPD – Integration of Plant ‘Omics’-Data in Gene Context
GabiPD (http://www.gabipd.org/) at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology constitutes a repository and analysis platform of genomic, transcriptomic, proteom…
Received 04 May 2009 16:15 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
DDBJ Activities: Contribution to the Research in Information Biology
DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan; http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ its database activities in 1986. From the beginning, DDBJ has been one of INSDC (International Nucleoti…
Received 01 May 2009 07:33 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Maize gene review – A new on-line journal promotes community curation of phenotypes
The first formal phenotype summaries for maize can be found in early editions of theMaize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter (MNL). Prior to on-line databases, the MNLserved to systematize availab…
Received 04 May 2009 21:29 UTC; Posted 04 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Reactome – a knowledgebase of human biological pathways
Reactome (http://www.reactome.org) is an expert-authored, peer-reviewed knowledgebase of human reactions and pathways that functions as a data mining resource and electron…
Received 29 April 2009 09:05 UTC; Posted 03 May 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
HGNC: The Why and How of Standardised Gene Nomenclature
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) aims to approve a unique gene symbol and gene name for every human gene. Standardisation of gene symbols is necessary to allow researchers and curators …
Received 27 April 2009 11:12 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
UniProt in RDF: Tackling Data Integration and Distributed Annotation with the Semantic Web
The UniProt knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is a comprehensive repository of protein sequence and annotation data. We collect information from the scientific literature and other databases and provide li…
Received 28 April 2009 13:14 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Plant Metabolic Pathways in MetaCyc and SolCyc
MetaCyc is a metabolic encyclopedia of experimentally validated biochemical pathways curated from scientific literature, that spans all organisms, with an emphasis on plants and microbes. The Pathw…
Received 28 April 2009 12:38 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Curating Genetic Association Literature for Common Diseases
Papers describing genetic associations with common diseases are currently being published at a rapid rate. These new papers add to an already large body of literature which includes candidate gene …
Received 24 April 2009 17:57 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, 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
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
