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1 st International Biocurator Meeting
Pacific Grove, CA * December 8-11, 2005

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Thursday, December 8, 2005
3:00-7:00 Arrival / Registration
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:00-10:00 Reception
Friday, December 9, 2005
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Introductions by Sue Rhee - in Powerpoint format
9:00-10:00 PLENARY SPEAKER:
Rolf Apweiler , EMBL-EBI
A short history of functional annotation of protein sequences - in Powerpoint format
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 SESSION I (Chair: Maria Costanzo):
LITERATURE CURATION


Ian Lewin , University of Cambridge
Language processing in support of FlyBase curation - in Powerpoint format

Hans-Michael Muller , California Institute of Technology
Using Textpresso to accelerate literature curation - in Powerpoint format

Joel Martin , NRC Institute for Information Technology
Rapid Text Mining across Terabytes - in Powerpoint format
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:30-3:00 SESSION II (Chair: Takashi Gojobori):
GENOME SEQUENCE ANNOTATION


Takashi Gojobori , Japan Biological Information Research Center, National Institutes of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), National Institute of Genetics
New Developments of the Integrated Database of Human Genes, the H-Invitational Database - in Powerpoint format

Jennifer Wortman , The Institute for Genomic Research
Leveraging comparative data to improve eukaryotic genome annotation - in Powerpoint format

Jennifer Harrow , The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Future direction of vertebrate genome annotation - in Powerpoint format
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 SESSION III (Chair: Simon Twigger):
LITERATURE CURATION AND GENOME SEQUENCE ANNOTATION


Fiona McCarthy , Mississippi State University
AgBase: GOing down to the farm for functional annotation - in Powerpoint format
Renate Kania , SDBV, EML Resarch gGmbH
SABIO-RK: a reaction kinetics database - in Powerpoint format

Igor Grigoriev , US DOE Joint Genome Institute
Annotation of Eukaryotic Genomes at JGI - in Powerpoint format

Sima Misra , University of California, Berkeley
The Apollo genome annotation browser and editor - in Powerpoint format
5:00-5:30 Minority Recruitment
Lee Bitsoi , Director of Minority Training in Genomics/ Bioinformatics. FlyBase- Harvard University
5:30-6:00 DISCUSSION (Moderator: Sima Misra)
Open discussion on the day's topics
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:30-10:00 POSTER SESSION I
Saturday, December 10, 2005
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 PLENARY SPEAKER:
Russ Altman , Stanford University
PharmGKB: integrating genotypes and phenotypes for pharmacogenomics - in Powerpoint format
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 SESSION IV (Chair: Win Hide):
ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT


Chris Mungall , University of California, Berkeley
Integrated Ontologies for Biological Annotation: The National Center for Biomedical Ontologies - in Powerpoint format

Jonathan Bard , University of Edinburgh
Curating Anatomy - in Powerpoint format

Monte Westerfield , University of Oregon
Ontologies and syntax to annotate phenotypes - in Powerpoint format
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:30-3:00 SESSION V (Chair: Sean May):
FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS DATA CURATION

Olga Troyanskaya , Princeton University
Data integration algorithms, gene function prediction

Elisabetta Manduchi , University of Pennsylvania
Expression-driven annotation using the GUS functional genomics database system - in Powerpoint format

Peifen Zhang , Carnegie Institution of Washington
Curating Biochemical Pathways - in Powerpoint format
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 SESSION VI (Chair: Sue Rhee):
ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CURATION

Adele Kruger , SANBI, University of the Western Cape
Development and implementation of a bridging ontology to allow for cross species gene expression analysis - in Powerpoint format

Ken Fukuda , CBRC, AIST
INOH - pathway data and ontologies - in Powerpoint format

Xianghong Jasmine Zhou , University of Southern California
Gene Aging Nexus: An integrated web data mining platform on aging - in Powerpoint format

Mads Hjorth , Copenhagen University
Mendelian Cytogenetic Network Database
5:00-6:00 DISCUSSION: (Moderator: Sima Misra)
Open discussion on the day's topics
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:30-10:00 POSTER SESSION II
Sunday, December 11, 2005
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 PLENARY SPEAKER:
Mike Tyers, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
10:00-10:40 SESSION VII (Chair: Doug Howe):
PATHWAY AND MOLECULAR INTERACTION DATABASES

Gopal Gopinathrao, Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Reactome - a knowledgebase of biological pathways - in Powerpoint format

Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
CBioC: Web-based Collaborative Curation of Molecular Interaction Data from Biomedical Literature - in Powerpoint format
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 MEETING EVALUATION AND FUTURE PLANNING (Moderated by Sue Rhee) - in Powerpoint format
--All attendees are encouraged to attend--
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-4:00 Wrap up session of organizing committee; draft white paper