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

[Peter Stevens]

So I suppose curators (e.g., me) in herbaria and zoological museums 
are not biocurators... It seems a rather unfortunate choice of a name!

P.


>** 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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