Omics studies, such as those of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics and metabolomics, have accumulated a large volume of biomedical data. However, the promise to translate these “big data” into biomedical knowledge can be realized only if they are standardized to be interoperable, complete to ensure data integrity, and consistent in data content. Biocuration provides tools and procedures critical in realizing the promise. International Biocuration Conference (IBC) is the global discussion platform for biocurators, bioinformaticians, data scientists, as well as any biomedical researchers and practitioners who care about data quality and interoperability, and interested in the exploration of a great application potential by data-driven knowledge discovery It is our great pleasure to announce that the 8th International Biocuration Conference (IBC) will be held in April 23-26, 2015, at Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China. The newly assembled Organizing Committee, consisting of not only local organizers, but also of members from Executive Committee of International Society for Biocuration and the 7th IBC Organization Committee, will start to work out the details to repeat previous success in the delivery of great scientific program, intuitive and functional logistics. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 21st Century is arguably the age of biosciences, and centre stage to this projection is the maturing of genomically powered approaches to all kinds of fundamental and applied questions. The next few decades will undoubtedly see a substantial increase in the number and diversity of species with sequenced genomes, as well as the exploration of variation of genomes across populations, different environments and over evolutionary time, and this will greatly empower integrative and comparative biosciences. The last five years have seen significant contributions to understanding of the evolution of vertebrate complexity, and how physiology of lower vertebrates can be advanced and specialized through successive rounds of genome duplications. This session will focus on these recent genomic achievements and how they empower a more comprehensive understanding of evolutionary and physiological adaptations. ... [Information of the supplier]
The modularized Diversity Workbench (=DWB) represents a virtual research environment for multiple scientific purposes with regard to management and analysis of life sciences data. The framework is appropriate to store different kinds of bio- and geodiversity data and facilitates the processing of ecological, molecular biological, observational, collection and taxonomic data. It is capable and flexible enough to be applied as data storage unit for institutional data repositories. The DWB is set up on a xml-enabled relational database system. Clients of every database of the Workbench are used as stand-alone applications and provide supporting functions to clients of corresponding databases. This results in a high flexibility with regard to the conceptual design, enabling sophisticated user administration and a rapid setup of project-specific and user-adapted entry forms. Further, it facilitates the dynamic integration of web services and external data resources. The DWB is work in progress, aiming at developing a set of information models and application components that collaborate through agreed software interfaces. That is, each component of the Workbench applications uses services from other applications, but at the same time does not need to know about the internal design and implementation of them (encapsulation principle). The goal is increased reuse and collaboration across project and national borders. ... [Information of the supplier]
BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology is a community-wide effort for evaluating text mining and information extraction systems applied to the biological domain. Built on the success of the previous BioCreative Challenge Evaluations and Workshops (BioCreative I, II, II.5, III, 2012 workshop, and IV) the BioCreative Organizing Committee will host the BioCreative V Challenge in Sevilla, Spain on September 9-11, 2015. 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. For BioCreative V, the selection of the tracks has been driven in part by suggestions from the biocuration community, by our goal of addressing interoperability -- a major barrier to adoption to text mining tools --, and via an open call for tasks of interest to both the bioNLP and user communities. ... [Information of the supplier]
This conference provides a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaboration and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research. In 2016 it is hosted by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The conference will include four plenary talks featuring established scientists who have influenced the field of biocuration. The plenary speakers are Theodora Bloom, Donna Maglott, Melissa Haendel and Edward Marcotte. ... [Information of the supplier]
BioMart is a community-driven project to provide unified access to distributed research data to facilitate the scientific discovery process. The BioMart project provides free software and data services to the international scientific community in order to foster scientific collaboration and facilitate the scientific discovery process. The project adheres to the open source philosophy that promotes collaboration and code reuse. ... [Information of the supplier]
The International Society for Biocuration's conference "Biocuration 2017" will be held next March at Stanford University in Palo Alto, south of San Francisco. [Information of the supplier, modified]
The 12th International Biocuration Conference is being held on Sunday April 7th to Wednesday April 10th, 2019 at The West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, UK. More details will be available shortly. This meeting will provide a forum for biocurators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaboration and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research. Participants from academia, government, and industry interested in the methods and tools employed in curation of biological data are encouraged to attend, and to submit an abstract for consideration for an oral or poster presentation. ... [Information of the supplier]
Botany 2019 will be held in Tucson, Arizona on July 27 - 31, 2019. Societies participating in Botany 2019 will include the: American Fern Society, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Botanical Society of America, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Society for Herbarium Curators, American Bryological and Lichenological Society. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
