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Biocuration2010

Date:
11 Oct 2010 to 14 Oct 2010
Location:
Tokyo, Japan

About Biocuration2010
Biocuration2010 is the Conference of the International Society for Biocuration (ISB) and the 4th International Biocuration Conference. It is held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 11-14, 2010.

This conference will provide a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster a sense of community in this active and growing area of research.

Topics will include:

  • Text Mining
  • Literature Curation
  • Ontologies
  • Genome Sequence Annotation
  • Comparative Genomics
  • Functional Genomics
  • Crop/Plant Genome Curation
  • Community Curation
  • Data Standardization and Integration
  • Curation Tools/Workflows
  • Data Visualization
  • Journal/Database Interactions and Collaborations
  • Next Generation Sequence Annotation
  • Next Generation Curation

Programme
The meeting program will include:

  • plenary speakers:
    Dr. Minoru Kanehisa (Kyoto Univ., Japan) 
    Dr. Paul Thomas (Univ. of Southern California, USA) 
    Dr. Barend Mons (Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre)
  • sessions:
    [S1] Large Scale, Automated, Predictive Annotations 
    [S2] Outreach to User Communities & Community Annotation 
    [S3] Biocuration in Metabolomics and Systems Biology 
    [S4] Asian Models of Biocuration-Related Activities 
    [S5] Data Integration Platforms and Data Sharing
    [S6] Future Directions and Challenges for Biocuration  
  • workshops:
    [W1] Curation of Protein Structure and Chemicals
    [W2] Curation Interface and Software 
    [W3] Crop/Plant Genome Curation 
    [W4] New Approaches Towards Database Integration

The full meeting program can be found here: http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/program.html
The meeting schedule can be found here: http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/meeting_schedule.html

Registration
Follow this link to register: http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/registration.html
For questions or technical difficulties with the registration, please contact the secretariat at Biocuration2010@removethis.ics-inc.co.jp

Abstract submission
The abstract submission deadline is now extended to August 31, 2010.  For more information see http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/abstract.html.

Important dates
Event date: October 11-14, 2010
Abstract submission ends: August 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: will be done by September 3, 2010
Early bird registration ends: September 6, 2010

Location
Tokyo International Exchange Center, Tokyo, Japan.

Organizing Committee
http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/committee.html

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