The Ninth International Biocuration Conference will be held in the hometown of the Swiss-Prot Database, Geneva, Switzerland, from April 10-14, 2016.
| Monday 11 April | |
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| 08:45-9:00 | Welcome |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Keynote lecture: Edward Marcotte
Evolution and the proteome: Insights into protein function from deeply conserved gene modules |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Data integration, data visualization
Chairs: Marc Robinson-Rechavi and Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi |
| 10:00-10:15 | Cecilia Arighi
iPTMnet: An Integrated Resource for Protein Post-Translational Modification Network Analysis |
| 10:15-10:30 | Andrew Nightingale
Knowledge driven research by combining large-scale genomic data and functional annotations in UniProt. |
| 10:30-10:45 | Frédéric Bastian
TopAnat: GO-like enrichment of anatomical terms mapped to genes by expression patterns |
| 10:45-11:00 | Jean-Philippe Gourdine
Using glycobiology in the evaluation of undiagnosed diseases |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-13:10 |
Data standards and ontologies
Chairs: Pascale Gaudet and Paul Thomas |
| 11:30-11:50 | Amos Bairoch
The Cellosaurus, a wealth of information on cell lines |
| 11:50-12:10 | Jinmeng Jia
PAM: A standards-based database for integrating and exchanging pediatrics-specified information from multitude of biomedical resources |
| 12:10-12:30 | Lynn Schriml
The OBO Foundry in 2016 |
| 12:30-12:50 | Valerie Hinard
ICEPO: the Ion Channel ElectroPhysiology Ontology |
| 12:50-13:10 | Marie-Angelique Laporte
Comparison of ontology mapping techniques to map traits |
| 13:10-13:15 | Launch of the Giga-Curation Challenge, Chris Hunter |
| 13:15-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Keynote lecture: Theodora Bloom
Publishing articles and making linked data available: steps towards seamless research reporting |
| 15:30-17:40 |
Functional Annotation
Chairs: Sylvain Poux and Frédérique Lisacek |
| 15:30-15:50 | Matthew Campbell
How to make glycomics more accessible to the life science community? |
| 15:50-16:10 | Judith Blake
'What does this gene do': Strategies for Summary Data Presentation in MODs |
| 16:10-16:40 | Coffee break |
| 16:40-17:00 | Lucila Aimo
The SwissLipids knowledge resource for lipid biology |
| 17:00-17:20 | Paul D. Thomas
LEGO: expressing complex biological models using the Gene Ontology |
| 17:20-17:35 | Philippe Le Mercier
Human immunodeficiency virus life cycle and host interaction resource at Viralzone |
| 17:40-19:00 | Poster session |
| Tuesday 12 April | |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Keynote lecture: Donna Maglott (will be presented by Kim Pruitt)
From paper to the cloud: the mechanics of biocuration may change but not the logic |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Crowd/community curation
Chair: Alex Bateman |
| 10:00-10:15 | Ellen M. McDonagh
Curation in the 100,000 Genomes Project |
| 10:15-10:30 | Alba Gutierrez Sacristan
Leveraging text mining, expert curation and data integration to develop a database on psychiatric diseases and their genes |
| 10:30-10:45 | Andra Waagmeester
Leveraging Wikidata for crowd curation |
| 10:45-11:00 | Aleksandra Shypitsyna
The Gene Ontology Annotation project: community curation standards and best practices |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-13:10 |
Curation standards and best practice; inference from evidence; data and annotation quality
Chairs: Kim Pruitt and Sandra Orchard |
| 11:30-11:50 | Ivan Erill
From data repositories to submission portals: rethinking the role of domain-specific databases in CollecTF |
| 11:50-12:10 | Raul Rodriguez-Esteban
Biocuration with insufficient resources and fixed timelines |
| 12:10-12:30 | Cricket Sloan
Principles of metadata organization at the ENCODE Data Coordination Center |
| 12:30-12:50 | Steven Vercruysse
SciCura: a new tool for intuitive annotation |
| 12:50-13:10 | Kent Shefchek
Creating a Standard Schema for Evidence and Provenance in Data Sharing |
| 13:10-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Text mining
Chairs: Patrick Ruch and Cecilia Arighi |
| 14:30-14:45 | Tonia Korves
Exploring human-machine cooperative curation |
| 14:45-15:00 | Jiao Li
A text-mining method for identifying a scientific program generated data use |
| 15:00-15:15 | Zhiyong Lu
Text mining genotype-phenotype associations at PubMed scale for database curation and precision medicine |
| 15:15-15:30 | Kimberly Van Auken
TextpressoCentral: A System for Integrating Full Text Literature Curation with Diverse Curation Platforms including the Gene Ontology Consortium’s Common Annotation Framework |
| 15:30-17:40 | DATABASE Virtual Issue session |
| 15:30-15:45 | Lionel Breuza
The UniProtKB guide to the human proteome |
| 15:45-16:00 | Amaia Sangrador
GO annotation in InterPro: why stability does not indicate accuracy in a sea of changing annotations |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30-16:45 | Stacia Engel
From one to many: Expanding the Saccharomyces cerevisiae reference genome panel |
| 16:45-17:00 | Zhiyong Lu
Discovering Biomedical Semantic Relations in PubMed Queries for Database Curation and Literature Retrieval |
| 17:00-17:15 | Timothy Putman
Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes |
| 17:15-17:30 | Tanya Berardini
Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
| 17:40-19:00 | Poster session |
| Wednesday 13 April | |
| Workshops | |
| Thursday 14 April | |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Keynote lecture: Melissa Haendel
Why the world needs phenopacketeers, and how to be one |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Large scale and predictive annotation
Chairs: Alan Bridge and Monica Muñoz-Torres |
| 10:00-10:15 | Gemma Holliday
David meets Goliath: Using curated data to infer functional boundaries in large datasets |
| 10:15-10:30 | Ivo Pedruzzi
HAMAP – leveraging Swiss-Prot curation for the annotation of uncharacterized proteins |
| 10:30-10:45 | Marco Pagni
MetaNetX/MNXref – reconciliation of metabolites and biochemical reactions to bring together genome-scale metabolic networks |
| 10:45-11:00 | Betina Porcel
The gene repertoire of eukaryotes: a focus on the missing knowledge of current genome annotations |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Big data
Chairs: Zhang Zhang and Ioannis Xenarios |
| 11:30-11:45 | Michael Baudis
Harvesting cancer genome data - Current opportunities and future challenges |
| 11:45-12:00 | Zhang Zhang
The BIG Data Center: from deposition to integration to translation |
| 12:00-12:15 | Anna I Guyer
Compendium of gene-expression data sets to facilitate machine-learning benchmarks |
| 12:15-12:30 | Markus Muller
Mining Large Scale Proteomics LC-MS/MS Data for Protein Modifications |
| 12:30-13:30 |
International Society of Biocuration General Meeting ISB General Meeting Next conference announcement Announcement of the ISB award laureate Poster prize sponsored by Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics and f1000 Closing remarks |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |