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.
Update On The Zebrafish Genome Project
The zebrafish genome, which consists of 25 linkage groups and is ~1.4Gb in size, is being sequenced, finished and analysed in its entirety at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The manual annotat…
Received 20 April 2009 15:39 UTC; Posted 20 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
The role of Havana and communities in the manual curation of unfinished vertebrate genomes
Manual annotation (the “museum” model of annotation) relies on a small group of specialized curators to catalogue and classify genes according to their functional roles. This is both cost…
Received 20 April 2009 13:17 UTC; Posted 20 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
SABIO-RK: Curated Kinetic Data of Biochemical Reactions
SABIO-RK (http://sabio.villa-bosch.de/SABIORK/) is a curated, web-accessible database for modellers and wet-lab scientists to get comprehensive information ab…
Received 19 April 2009 08:15 UTC; Posted 20 April 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Bioinformatics
Development of GCP Ontology for Sharing Crop Information
The Generation Challenge Programme (GCP – http://www.generationcp.org) is a globally distributed crop research consortium directed toward crop improvement through the …
Received 19 April 2009 10:02 UTC; Posted 20 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
