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.
Genome Network Project: An Integrated Genomic Platform
With the objective of elucidating the structure of gene interactions in the human genome, the Genome Network Project has generated a vast quantity of experimental data, mainly focusing on transcrip…
Received 27 April 2009 05:40 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
GOAssay: from Gene Ontology to Assays IDentifiers – Towards Automatic Functional Annotation of PubChem BioAssays
OBJECTIVES: We report on a experiment to functionally annotate PubChem assays using the Gene Ontology Categorizer (GOCat). METHODS and MATERIALS: The assays are processed to filter out non func…
Received 24 April 2009 20:48 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Challenges in Whole-Genome Annotation of Pyrosequenced Fungal Genomes
Pyrosequencing technologies such as 454/Roche and Solexa/Illumina vastly lower the cost of nucleotide sequencing compared to the traditional Sanger method, and thus promise to greatly expand the nu…
Received 28 April 2009 02:30 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
Grid technology for collaborative ontology development
In contrast with the centrally-organised curation of the Gene Ontology, many biological ontologies are developed by loosely-organised groups who develop their ontology remotely. These groups tend t…
Received 27 April 2009 19:36 UTC; Posted 27 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Manual annotation of the mouse genome: HAVANA and EUCOMM
The European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis (EUCOMM) project aims to establish a mutant resource containing up to 13,000 conditional mouse mutations in C57BL/6N embryonic stem cells. As part of this…
Received 27 April 2009 09:12 UTC; Posted 27 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
UIMA in the Biocuration Workflow: A coherent framework for cooperation between biologists and computational linguists
As collaborating partners, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre and GRIB (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) seek to combine strengths from Computational Linguistics and Biomedicine to produce a robust Text Mi…
Received 24 April 2009 16:05 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Expert Assertions Through Community Annotation Jamborees
Although there is significant optimism that community involvement can drive genome curation, results to date are disappointing. The Human Genome and Saccharomyces Genome Databases both tried commun…
Received 24 April 2009 15:33 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Protein Ontology and Community Curation
The Protein Ontology (PRO) is designed as a formal and well-principled Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry ontology for proteins. The components of PRO extend from the classification of protei…
Received 24 April 2009 12:34 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Curation of NISEED, an integrative framework for the digital representation of embryonic development
NISEED (Network for In situ Expression and Embryological Data) is a generic infrastructure for the creation, maintenance and integration of molecular and anatomical information on model organisms. ...
Received 24 April 2009 09:22 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Immunogenetic sequence annotation based on IMGT-ONTOLOGY
IMGT/LIGM-DB1 is the first and the largest IMGT® database2 in which are managed, analysed and annotated more than 136,000 immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) nucleotide sequences fro…
Received 24 April 2009 09:18 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Bioinformatics
