Conferences
International Biocuration Meetings
The goal of these meetings is to create a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research.
Next conference: The 6th International Biocuration Conference will be held on April 7-10, 2013, at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.
The website and registration are now open: 6th International Biocuration Conference Please note that the online registration deadline is March 31, 2013.Related Meetings
- HARMONY 2013 When: May 20-23, 2013 Where: Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, CT, USA. HARMONY is a hackathon-type meeting, with a focus on development of the standards, interoperability and infrastructure. There is generally not many general discussions or oral presentations during HARMONY; instead, the time is devoted to allowing hands-on hacking and interaction between people focused on practical development of software and standards.
- 1st International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BIODIV) When: May 26-27, 2013 Where: Montpellier, France The workshop aims to identify the key challenges faced by the bioinformatics community, discuss potential solutions and identify the opportunities emerging from the trans-disciplinary interactions between Plant Science and Informatics experts. Therefore, we expect the bioinformatics experts to explain how they apply semantic web standards and tools to their scientific topic, from biology, agriculture, agro-ecology, genomics, environmental studies, to social sciences, citizen sciences.
- 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013) When: May 26-30, 2013 Where: Montpellier, France The ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies. Building on its past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role.
- 4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2013 (ICBO2013)
When: July 7-9, 2013
Where: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The event is part of the Semantic Trilogy 2013 featuring:
- International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2013)
- Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013)
- Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2013)
- Bioinformatic tools for NRPS discovery: from genomic data to the products International workshop for young researchers When: July 10-12, 2013 Where: University of Lille1-Villeneuve d’Ascq, France AIM & SCOPE: being able to rapidly identify, annotate and analyze polyketide and nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genomes, managing the prediction of the most probable structure and activity of the peptides, getting familiar with bioinformatic tools such as Norine (http://bioinfo.lifl.fr/norine/) and antiSMASH. Registration: http://www.lifl.fr/~pupin/workshopnrps2013.html
- Bio-Ontologies SIG 2013 Co-located with ISMB/ECCB 2013. When: July 20, 2013 Where: Berlin, Germany. The Bio-Ontologies SIG provides a forum for discussion of the latest and most innovative research in the appplication of ontologies and more generally the organisation, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biomedicine and the life sciences. Bio-Ontologies has existed as a SIG at ISMB for 15 years, making it one of the longest running. Submissions due: April 12th, 2013
- BioNLP Shared Task 2013 at the BioNLP'11 Workshop When: Aug. 8-9 2013 Where: Sofia, Bulgaria The BioNLP Shared Task (BioNLP-ST) series represents a community-wide trend in text-mining for biology toward fine-grained information extraction (IE).
- 12th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2013) When: Sept 10-11, 2013 Where: Graz, Austria The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'13) provides a forum on the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2013 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, social networks, mobile systems, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and computational linguistics. The organizers also encourage the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information integration, and information extraction, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various applications. Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: May 11, 2013 Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 18, 2013 Author Registration Due: July 16, 2013 The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
- Workshop on Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences When: Sep 19-20 Where: Koblenz, Germany This workshop integrates workshops of two series: the workshop series Data in Life Sciences and Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences (OBML), thereby connecting two important areas of biomedical research. This connection covers the overall spectrum of biomedical information processing, from experimental data acquisition and data management, across analysis, structuring and interpretation of data, up to the development of structures of knowledge in the form of ontologies with their various applications. Paper submission deadline: Apr 22, 2013
- BioCreative IV Challenge and Workshop When: October 7-9, 2013 Where: NCBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. BioCreative: (http://www.biocreative.org/) is a community-wide effort for evaluating text mining and information extraction systems applied to the biological domain. One key goal of BioCreative is the active involvement of the text mining user community in the design of the tracks, preparation of corpus and the testing of interactive systems. More details on upcoming deadlines are available at http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#dates.
- NETTAB 2013: Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories When: Oct 16-18, 2013 Where: Lido of Venice, Italy The NETTAB 2013 workshop will explore mobile, social, and semantic solutions for bioinformatics and laboratory informatics. A savvy combination of these technologies could greatly enhance the research outcome of life scientists and markedly simplify workflows in biomedical laboratories. July 5, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Oral communications July 31, 2013: Abstract submission deadline for Posters September 13, 2013: Early registration deadline
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5th International Biocuration Conference
Washington, DC, USA, April 2-4, 2012
- * The 2012 Biocuration Virtual Issue from DATABASE, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, has published 21 papers decribing work presented at the 5th Biocuration conference.
- * Some presentations from Biocuration 2012 are available at Biocuration 2012 on SlideShare
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4th International Biocuration Conference
Tokyo, Japan, October 11-14, 2010
- * Presentations are available on Biocuration 2010 collection from Nature Precedings
- * Group picture: 4th Biocuration Conference Group Picture
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3rd International Biocuration Conference
Berlin, Germany, April 16–19, 2009
- * Audio of presentations are available on SciVee
- * Presentations are available on Nature Precedings
- * 2009 Biocuration meeting evaluation survey results.
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2nd International Biocuration Meeting
San Jose, CA, October 25-28, 2007 * 2007 Biocuration meeting evaluation survey results.
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1st International Biocuration Meeting
Asilomar, CA, December 8-11. * Group picture: 1st Biocuration Conference Group Picture
