The BioCreative workshop schedule is synchronized with the Biocuration meeting to allow attendance to the plenary sessions and other text mining relevant sessions.
The BioCreative meeting will coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Cherry Blossom festival in Washington D.C. Centennial celebrations will last from March 20th to April 27th 2012 featuring over 200 international cultural events. For more information about the festival, click here.
Workshop Registration
Registration to BioCreative Workshop 2012 is now open.
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BioCreative Workshop Agenda
Wednesday April 4, 2012
8:30am-noon | Registration (West Lobby) |
7:30-9:00 am | Breakfast (South Gallery) |
10:30am-12:30pm | BioCuration-2012 joint session (Conference Room 4) Session 6: Integrating text mining into biocuration workflows |
12:30-1:30pm | Lunch (Salons ABG) |
1:30-1:40pm | Workshop opening - Lynette Hirschman (Salon DE) |
1:40-2:15pm | Overview on Track I (Triage) results - T. Wiegers (Salon DE) |
2:15-3:40pm Participant Track I - Selected team participants | |
2:15-2:30pm Team 121- System Description for the BioCreative 2012 Triage Task | |
2:30-2:45pm Team 116- Ranking of CTD Articles and Interactions Using the OntoGene Pipeline | |
2:45-3:00pm Team 120- Selection of Relevant Articles for Curation for the Comparative Toxicogenomic Database | |
3:00-3:15pm Team 130- CoIN: a Network Exploration for Document Triage | |
3:15-3:40pm Discussion (Moderated by T.Wiegers) | |
3:40-4:00pm | Break (South Gallery) |
4:00-5:00pm | BioCuration-2012 joint session Plenary session 3: Amos Bairoch |
5:30-7:30pm | BioCreative Workshop Reception and Poster session (Salon CH) |
Thursday April 5, 2012
07:30-8:00am | Breakfast (South Gallery) |
8:00-8:20am | Overview on Track II (Workflow)- Z. Lu (Salon DE) |
8:20-10:00am | Participant Track II - Selected team participants |
8:20-8:35am Team 142- WormBase Literature Curation Workflow | |
8:35-8:50am Team 50- Literature curation workflow at The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) | |
8:50-9:05am Team 151- Summary of Curation Process for one component of the Mouse Genome Informatics Database Resource | |
9:05-9:20am Team 156- The Xenbase Literature Curation Process | |
9:20-9:35am Team 159- Summary of the FlyBase-Cambridge Literature Curation Workflow | |
9:35-9:50am Team 162- Incorporating text-mining into the biocuration workflow at the AgBase database | |
9:50-10:00am Discussion (Moderated by L. Hirschman) | |
10:00-10:30am | Break |
10:30am-10:50 | Overview on Track III (Interactive TM) - C. Arighi (Salon DE) |
10:50am12:30pm | Participant Track III - Selected team participants |
10:50-11:00am Team 132- T-HOD: Text-mined Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes Candidate Gene Database | |
11:00-11:15am Team 142- Textpresso Text Mining: Semi-automated Curation of Protein Subcellular Localization Using the Gene Ontology’s Cellular Component Ontology | |
11:15-11:30am Team 143- PCS for Phylogenetic Systematic Literature Curation | |
11:30-11:45am Team 153- PubTator: A PubMed-like interactive curation system for document triage and literature curation | |
11:45-12:00pm Team 158- PPInterFinder – A Web Server for Mining Human Protein ‐ Protein Interactions | |
12:00-12:15pm Team 160- Mining Protein Interactions of Phosphorylated Proteins from the Literature using eFIP | |
12:15-12:30pm Discussion (Moderated by: B. Carterette, M. Krallinger, K. Cohen and J. Wilbur) | |
12:30-1:30pm | Lunch (Faculty Club Restaurant) |
1:30-4:00pm | Participant Tracks I & III Demos and system testing (Salon BG) |
4:00-4:30pm | Retrospective & future: BioCreative IV- C. Wu (Salon DE) |
4:30pm | Workshop closing |
Venue and Access
Conference Venue
Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center
Leavey Center, Georgetown University
3800 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057
(202) 687.3200
(800) 228.9290
The BioCreative meeting will coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Cherry Blossom festival in Washington D.C. Centennial celebrations will last from March 20th to April 27th 2012 featuring over 200 international cultural events.
DirectionsDirections from area airports are given below. For directions from other locations please call the Conference Center directions line at 202-687-5452. From Ronald Reagan Washington National - DCAFrom Washington, DC/Dulles - IADFrom Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport - BWIParking
Parking is available at the Conference Center. From Entrance #1 (after following the directions given above), follow the road straight back, it will dead-end into a parking garage. This is the Leavey Center Building. Enter the parking garage and turn right. In front of you will be the door to the Conference Center Elevator.
Main EntranceIf you need to drive directly to the Conference Center Entrance, you will need to turn right before you enter the parking garage. The entrance is under the green awnings. |
Workshop Proceedings
For Track participants accepted descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submission of documents should be done via Easychair. Deadline March 15.
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