Biocuration 2016

The Ninth International Biocuration Conference will be held in the hometown of the Swiss-Prot Database, Geneva, Switzerland, from April 10-14, 2016.

Agenda


Sunday 10 April Monday 11 April Tuesday 12 April Wednesday 13 April Thursdays 14 April
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Keynote lecture
Edward Marcotte
Keynote lecture
Donna Maglott (will be presented by Kim Pruitt)
Workshops Keynote lecture
Melissa Haendel
10:00-11:00 Data integration, data visualization
Chairs: Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi
Crowd/community curation
Chair: Alex Bateman
Large scale and predictive annotation
Chairs: Alan Bridge, Monica Muñoz-Torres
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:30 Data standards and ontologies
Chairs: Pascale Gaudet, Paul Thomas
Curation standards and best practice; inference from evidence; data and annotation quality
Chairs: Kim Pruitt, Sandra Orchard
Workshops
Big data
Chairs: Zhang Zhang, Ioannis Xenarios
International Society of Biocuration General Meeting

13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Keynote lecture
Theodora Bloom
Text mining
Chairs: Patrick Ruch, Cecilia Arighi
Workshops Departure
15:30-16:00 Registration Functional Annotation
Chairs: Sylvain Poux, Frédérique Lisacek
DATABASE Virtual issue session
Chairs: David Landsman and Mike Cherry
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:40 Functional Annotation
Chairs: Sylvain Poux, Frédérique Lisacek
DATABASE Virtual Issue session
Chairs: David Landsman and Mike Cherry
Workshops
17:40-19:00 Poster session Poster session
19:00-22:00 Swiss-Prot 30th anniversary cruise dinner Dinner for keynote speakers Meeting cocktail dinner