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.
Direct submission system and literature annotation of rice genes in Oryzabase
Oryzabase (http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/rice/oryzabase/) is a comprehensive rice science database 1. It houses a variety of genetic resources, relevan…
Received 24 April 2009 04:20 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
Increasing Access To Bioinformatics Resources: Increase Community Curation by Increasing Your Community
The amount of biological data has risen exponentially over the last decade. Along with this rise, the number and types of bioinformatics resources has risen such that the sheer number of bioinforma…
Received 23 April 2009 19:00 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
GreenPhylDB: A Gene Family Database for plant functional Genomics
With the increasing number of genomes being sequenced, a major objective is to transfer accurate annotation from characterised proteins to uncharacterised sequences. Consequently, comparative genom…
Received 22 April 2009 14:39 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Text mining for Swiss-Prot curation: A story of success and failure
A text mining group has been set up at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, with objective to develop and adapt information retrieval and extraction tools to help Swiss-Prot curators in their dai…
Received 24 April 2009 09:36 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
IMGT/GENE-DB: genomic reference sequences for human and mouse IG and TR genes and alleles
The immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) major loci span about 6 Megabases (Mb) of the human genome on chromosomes 2, 7, 14 and 22, and 9 Mb in mouse on chromosomes 6, 12, 13, 14 and 16. Th…
Received 23 April 2009 13:26 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Bioinformatics
The Gene Ontology’s Reference Genome Project: A Unified Framework for Functional Annotation across Species
Complete functional annotation of genomes is a powerful tool for researchers; however, such annotation is a time-consuming task limited by the availability of experimental data. The function of gen…
Received 22 April 2009 22:47 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
GENCODE: Creating a Validated Manually Annotated Geneset for the Whole Human Genome
The Human and Vertebrate Analysis and Annotation (HAVANA) group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute produced the manually annotated geneset for the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) pilot pr…
Received 23 April 2009 10:51 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Resource (ELM): Regulatory Sites in Proteins
Linear motifs are short and evolutionarily variable sequence patterns associated with particular functions often involving post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, acetylation, gl…
Received 23 April 2009 10:26 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Worm Annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB)
The nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, was the first multicellular organism to be sequenced. Its genome was published in 1998, providing an impetus for gene and protein annotation. Recently, ...
Received 23 April 2009 11:47 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Xenopus and Zebrafish Annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB)
The African clawed frog Xenopus laevis and the zebrafish Danio rerio have both proved to be good model organisms for studying early vertebrate cellular and developmental biology. More recently, the…
Received 23 April 2009 10:30 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
