Curator Meeting
October 27-28, 2003
Milwaukee, WI

Monday, October 27

 

8:15

Shuttle Bus departs Radisson for MCW

 

8:30-9:00

Breakfast

 

9:00-9:15

Introduction

Howard Jacob, HMGC

9:15-9:45

Participant Introductions

 

9:45-10:35

 

Overview

¼  Curation of the EcoCyc Database: The EcoCyc Update Project

¼  An Overview of Eukaryotic Annotation at TIGR

 

Martha Arnaud, EcoCyc

Roger Smith, TIGR

10:35-10:55

Break

 

10:55-12:35

 

¼  Organization and presentation of biological information in the Saccharomyces Genome Database

¼  GeneDB: A Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Genome Resource

¼  RegulonDB: Curation, Literature Search, Notation and Evidences about Transcriptional Regulation and Transcription Unit Organization in E.coli K-12

¼  Integration of New Data into RGD: Quality Control and Data Submission Tools

Maria Costanzo, SGD                                                       

Christiane Hertz-Fowler, GeneDB

Socorro Gama Castro, Regulon

 

Dean Pasko

12:35-1:35

Lunch

 

1:35-3:15

 

Mapping curation

¼  Comparative Map Curation in Gramene Using Cmap

¼  Map Curation on GrainGenes

Sequence curation

¼  Sequence Curation in dictyBase

¼  Apollo: a genome annotation tool

 

Immanuel V. Yap, Gramene

Victoria Carollo, GrainGenes

 

Petra Fey, dictyBase

Lynn Crosby, FlyBase

3:15-3:35

Break

 

3:35-5:15

 

Informatic aspects of curation

¼  Clustering MeSH Representations of Medical Literature

¼  Textpresso: An Information Retrieval and Extraction System for C. elegans Literature

¼  PubFetch: Collecting literature from multiple data sources

¼  BioCreAtIvE: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction

 

Craig Struble, Marquette U.

Wen Chen, Wormbase

Vijay Narayanasamy, GMOD

Marc Colosimo, Mitre

5:30

Shuttle bus departs MCW for Radisson

 

6:15

Meet in Radisson Lobby to Carpool to dinner

 

 

Tuesday, October 28

 

8:15

Shuttle Bus departs Radisson for MCW

 

8:30-9:00

Breakfast

 

9:00-10:15

 

Curation of specialized data

¼ Curatorial procedures at Mouse Genome Informatics, with an emphasis on expression data

¼ Gene Expression Curation in WormBase

¼ Biological Interaction Curation In FlyBase

 

Connie Smith, MGI

Wen Chen, Wormbase

Chihiro Yamada, FlyBase

10:15-10:35

Break

 

10:35-12:15

¼ Mutant Manifests: toward a zebrafish phenotype ontology

Community input

¼ Community Curation at MaizeGDB

¼ Community Interactions: Feedback, Support and Curation

General discussion

David S. Fashena, Zfin

 

Carolyn Lawrence, MaizeDB

Eva Huala, TAIR

 

12:15-1:15

Lunch

 

1:15-2:15

Wrap-up, Future Meetings