Scientific Program

Thursday, April 23, 2015
09:00 - 16:30 Training Courses
Ju Ying Hall, Friendship Palace
   09:00 - 12:00 Biocuration of GenBank & RefSeq
Ilene Mizrachi and Kim Pruitt
   12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   13:30 - 16:30 Biocuration of UniProt & Proteomics Databases
Claire O'Donovan and Sandra Orchard
13:00 - 18:00 Arrival & Registration
Ju Ying Hall, Friendship Palace
17:00 - 17:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Weimin Zhu, Jingchu Luo, Zhang Zhang
Ju Ying Hall
17:10 - 18:00 Plenary Session, Chaired by Alex Bateman, Ju Ying Hall
Keynote Lecture 1
Title: TBD
Guoping Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
18:00 - 20:00 Reception
Dining Hall
 
Friday, April 24, 2015
08:30 - 09:05 Opening Ceremony, Chaired by Heng Wang, Ju Ying Hall
TBD
Yongbiao Xue, Director, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alex Bateman, Chair, International Society for Biocuration
09:05 - 10:25 Plenary Session, Chaired by Weimin Zhu, Ju Ying Hall
   09:05 - 09:55 Keynote Lecture 2
Title: TBD
Philip Bourne, National Institutes of Health, USA
   09:55 - 10:25 Invited Lecture 1
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD
10:25 - 10:45 Group Photo and Coffee & Tea Break
10:45 - 12:00 Session 1: Curation and Data annotation: from molecules to communities
Chaired by Suzanna Lewis, Ilene Mizrachi
Ju Ying Hall
5 talks, each 15 minutes
12:00 - 13:10 Lunch
Dining Hall
13:10 - 14:30 Plenary Session, Chaired by Jingchu Luo, Ju Ying Hall
   13:10 - 14:00 Keynote Lecture 3
Title: TBD
Amos Bairoch, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
   14:00 - 14:30 Invited Lecture 2
Title: TBD
Xiujie Wang, CAS, China
14:30 - 15:30 Session 2: Curation: from genotype to phenotype
Chaired by Ming Qi
Ju Ying Hall
4 talks, each 15 minutes
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea Break
16:00 - 17:30 Concurrent Workshops
Workshop 1: Crowd/community curation: challenges & credit attribution
Chaired by Henning Hermjakob
Ju Ying Hall
Workshop 2: Data visualization & annotation
Chaired by Rama Balakrishnan and Monica Munoz-Torres
Conference Room 2
17:30 - 19:00 Poster Session 1
Conference Rooms 3 and 4
 
Saturday, April 25, 2015
09:00 - 10:20 Plenary Session, Chaired by Yixue Li, Ju Ying Hall
   09:00 - 09:50 Keynote Lecture 4
Title: Big data to small data and back again: integrating biological data with the open access literature
Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI
   09:50 - 10:20 Invited Lecture 3
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee & Tea Break
10:45 - 12:00 Session 3: Biological database, tool & framework
Chairs: TBD
Ju Ying Hall
5 talks, each 15 minutes
12:00 - 13:10 Lunch
Dining Hall
13:10 - 14:30 Plenary Session, Chaired by Jun Yu, Ju Ying Hall
   13:10 - 14:00 Keynote Lecture 5
Title: TBD
Takashi Gojobori, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
   14:00 - 14:30 Invited Lecture 4
Title: TBD
TBD, TBD
14:30 - 15:30 Session 4: Drug & small molecules
Chaired by Yanli Wang
Ju Ying Hall
4 talks, each 15 minutes
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea Break
16:00 - 17:30 Concurrent Workshops
Workshop 3: Biocuration in big data to knowledge: new strategy, process & framework
Chaired by Francis Ouellette
Ju Ying Hall
Workshop 4: International collaboration in biocuration: projects & data/expertise sharing
Chaired by Claire O'Donovan and Sandra Orchard
Conference Room 2
17:30 - 19:00 Poster Session 2
Conference Rooms 3 and 4
19:00 - 21:00 Special Workshop: Biocuration in China: importance, road map & priority
Chaired by Weimin Zhu, Jinchu Luo and Zhang Zhang
Ju Ying Hall
 
Sunday, April 26, 2015
09:00 - 10:20 Plenary Session, Chaired by Zhang Zhang, Ju Ying Hall
   09:00 - 09:50 Keynote Lecture 6
Title: TBD
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University, Israel
   09:50 - 10:20 Invited Lecture 5
Title: TBD
Yixue Li, Shanghai Center of Bioinformation Technology, China
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee & Tea Break
10:45 - 12:00 Session 5: Data standards & Ontologies
Chairs: Sandra Orchard and Pascale Gaudet
Ju Ying Hall
5 talks, each 15 minutes
12:00 - 13:10 Lunch
Dining Hall
13:10 - 14:10 Session 6: Literature mining
Chaired by Zhiyong Lu and Cecilia Arighi
Ju Ying Hall
4 talks, each 15 minutes
14:10 - 15:00 Special Session: Lightning Talks for Database-Journal accepted publications
Chair: TBD
Ju Ying Hall
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee & Tea Break
15:30 - 17:00 Concurrent Workshops
Workshop 5: Genotype-2-phenotype: Curation challenges in translational & reverse
translational informatics

Chair: TBD
Ju Ying Hall
Workshop 6: Money for biocuration: strategies, ideas & funding
Chaired by Renate Kania, Ulrike Wittig
Conference Room 2
17:00 - 17:30 Closing Session: Discussions, Awards and Closing Remarks
Ju Ying Hall