First International Biocurator Meeting, Asilomar, CA, December 8-11, 2005

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** First announcement **
First International Biocurator Meeting, Asilomar, CA, December 8-11, 2005

The goal of this meeting is to create a forum for curators and developers of
biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster
a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research.
Confirmed plenary speakers include Rolf Apweiler (EBI), Russ Altman (Stanford
University), and Mike Tyers (University of Toronto).

Advance registration will be available from August 6 - October 1, and abstract
submission will be open from August 6 - October 11.

For more information, please see the meeting web site at:

http://biocurator.org/intnlbiocurator.html

The meeting organizers would like to thank the Genetics Society of America for
their support.

Organizing Comittee:
Richard Bruskiewich -International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines
Maria Costanzo -Saccharomyces Genome Database, Stanford University, USA
Kara Dolinski -Saccharomyces Genome Database, Princeton University, USA
Takashi Gojobori -Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan,
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Win Hide -South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the
Western Cape, South Africa
Doug Howe -Zebrafish Information Network, University of Oregon, USA
Sean May -NASC, the European Arabidopsis Stock Centre, UK
Gillian Millburn -FlyBase, University of Cambridge, UK
Sima Misra -FlyBase and BDGP, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mary Polacco -USDA ARS and University of Missouri, USA
Sue Rhee -The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Carnegie Institution, USA
Simon Twigger -Rat Genome Database, Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee,
USA
Yukiko Yamazaki -Oryzabase, Genetic Informatics Laboratory, Center for Genetic
Resource Information, National Institute of Genetics, Japan


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