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.

Registration

Agenda

Venue and Access

Proceedings

Instruction to authors

Workshop Registration

Registration to BioCreative Workshop 2012 is now open.

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Registration includes:

Attendance to workshop and joined Biocuration sessions (see workshop agenda)

Coffee breaks on April 4-5

Evening reception on April 4

Breakfast and lunch on April 5

Registration is in US dollars:

Regular registration $250

Biocurator (participating in testing at workshop) $125

Student/post-doc $125

Organizer/Advisory Group Member free

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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

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Local Attractions

Cherry Blossom Festival

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.

Dining

Area Hotels (same as Biocuration meeting)

Directions Directions 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 - DCA Distance: 5.0 mi Estimated taxi fare: 20.00 USD (one way) Driving directions: Take George Washington Parkway North. Follow signs for Key Bridge/Route 50. Follow the road until the Key Bridge exit. You will want to be in the left lane as you cross over Key Bridge. At the end of Key Bridge take a left at the light. This is Canal Road. Follow the road as it bears to the right. At this point the road becomes Foxhall Rd. At the third light take a right onto Reservoir Rd. Follow Reservoir Rd. until you get to Entrance #1 of Georgetown University Hospital, turn right. Follow directions to the parking garage or the main entrance, given below. From Washington, DC/Dulles - IAD Distance: 25.0 mi Estimated taxi fare: 45.00 USD (one way) Driving directions: Follow Dulles Airport Access Road to I-66. Take I-66 east to Key Bridge exit. You will want to be in the left lane as you cross over Key Bridge. At the end of Key Bridge take a left at the light. This is Canal Road. Follow the road as it bears to the right. At this point the road becomes Foxhall Rd. At the third light take a right onto Reservoir Rd. Follow Reservoir Rd. until you get to Entrance #1 of Georgetown University Hospital, turn right. From Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport - BWI Distance: 45.0 mi Estimated taxi fare: 65.00 USD (one way) Driving directions: Follow I-95 South to I-495. Take the I-495 West Exit towards Silver Spring. Continue towards Virginia on I-495 South. Follow to Cabin John Parkway Exit 40 (Glen Echo). Continue on the Parkway past Chain Bridge Rd. and take a left at the next light. This is Arizona Ave. At the top of the hill take a right onto MacArthur Blvd. When the road divides bear left onto Reservoir Rd. Follow Reservoir Rd. until you get to Entrance #1 of Georgetown University Hospital, turn right. Parking 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. Though street parking is available, it is very limited with respect to both time and capacity, and therefore it is not recommended. Main Entrance If 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.

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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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Instructions to authors and template are provided below.