Ayer me llegó un correo relacionado con la siguiente conferencia del ciclo Barcelona BioMed Conferences que organiza IRB Barcelona. Esta conferencia se titula The DNA-Proteome: recent advances towards establishing the protein-DNA interaction space, y se celebrará del 20 al 22 de Abril en la sala Prat de Riba del Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Para aquell@s que esteis interesad@s, la asistencia a esta conferencia es gratuía pero hay un número limitado de plazas, y el plazo de inscripción termina el próximo 20 de Febrero.

El formulario de inscripción está en la página de la conferencia, y a continuación os incluyo el anuncio completo original que recibí:

Dear Colleagues

The registration deadline for the next Barcelona BioMed Conference is approaching. Register now to reserve your place.

Barcelona BioMed Conference "The DNA-Proteome: recent advances towards establishing the protein-DNA interaction space"
April 20-22, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

Organizers: Herbert Auer (IRB Barcelona) and Erich Grotewold (Ohio State University, USA)

Speakers:

• Robin Allshire (Edinburgh, UK)
• Sarah Bray (Cambridge, UK)
• Vivian G. Cheung (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• Bart Deplancke (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Joe Ecker (La Jolla, CA, USA)
• Peggy Farnham (Davis, CA, USA)
• Eileen Furlong (Heidelberg, Germany)
• Tom Gingeras (Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA)
• Erich Grotewold (Columbus, OH, USA)
• Roderic Guigo (Barcelona, Spain)
• Jan Karlseder (La Jolla, CA, USA)
• Saadi Khochbin (Grenoble, France)
• Manel Esteller (Madrid, Spain)
• Rolf Ohlsson (Uppsala, Sweden)
• Dirk Schübeler (Basel, Switzerland)
• Michael Snyder (New Haven, CT, USA)
• Gary Stormo (St Louis, MO, USA)
• Barbara Wold (Pasadena, CA, USA)
• Greg Wray (Durham, NC, USA)

 

Registration deadline: February 20, 2009
There is no registration fee for this conference, but the number of participants is limited.

Organized by IRB Barcelona with the collaboration of the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation.
Hosted by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

For more information and registration, see http://www.irbbarcelona.org/biomed/dnaproteome

Barcelona BioMed Conference Secretariat
biomed@irbbarcelona.org

Siguiendo la nueva tendencia en las competiciones bianuales en áreas de la Bioinformática, comenzada por CASP6.5 y continuada en CASP7.5, BioCreative, la competición relacionada con el área de text-mining, va a celebrar su propia edición fraccional (BioCreative II.5). Esta edición está principalmente pensada para participantes, debido a que las fechas proporcionadas por el comunicado oficial de la organización apuntan a los distintos plazos que tienen para entrenar sus herramientas, probarlas y evaluarlas.

Ya está abierto el plazo de inscripción, y se cerrará el próximo 3 de Abril. Aunque todavía no hay datos sobre el lugar de celebración ni las fechas de las reuniones que se suelen celebrar al final de estas competiciones, la página web de BioCreative II.5 va a ir actualizándose con información adicional. Además, hay una lista de correo electrónico dedicada a la competición: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/biocreative-participant

El anuncio completo original del evento viene a continuación:

BioCreative II.5 Challenge (2009)

Can Information Extraction contribute to the creation of Structured Digital Abstracts (SDAs)?

• BioCreative II.5 builds on the FEBS Letters experiment for the creation of SDAs.
• BC II.5 will systematically assess the potential use of automated IE in the curation of full-text articles.
  

See previous controversial articles:

• Ceol et al., Linking entries in protein interaction database to structured text: The FEBS Letters experiment., FEBS Letters (2008) vol. 582 (8) pp. 1171-7
  http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0014-5793%2808%2900196-8
• Gerstein et al., Structured digital abstract makes text mining easy., Nature (2007) May 10;447(7141):142
  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7141/full/447142a.html
• * Hahn et al., Text mining: powering the database revolution., Nature (2007) May 10;447(7141):142
  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7150/full/448130b.html
• Leitner et al., A text-mining perspective on the requirements for electronically annotated abstracts., FEBS Letters (2008) vol. 582 (8) pp. 1178-81
  http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0014-5793(08)00195-6
  

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

OVERVIEW

Interesting new aspects of BioCreative II.5 relate to:

TASKS

1. INT - Interaction normalization task
   (Given an article extract a set of biological entities, namely mentioned interactor proteins)
2. IPT - Interaction pair task
   (Extraction of biological relations, namely pairs of interacting proteins)
3. ACT - Article categorization task
   (Binary classification of articles as relevant for extracting interaction annotations)
   

For more information on the tasks, please visit the website at: http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-ii5/biocreative-ii5/

EVALUATION

PUBLICATIONS

• BioCreative I - BMC Bioinformatics
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6?issue=S1&page=1
• BioCreative II - Genome Biology
  http://genomebiology.com/supplements/9/S2
  

MAILING LIST / REGISTRATION

To join the BioCreative mailing list visit: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/biocreative-participant

To obtain data (BioCreative data and workshop proceedings): http://www.biocreative.org/accounts/register/

If you are interested in the BC II.5 challenge, register at: http://www.biocreative.org/team/create/

(Note: Servers will be down on Sat., 7th Feb., from 9:00-14:00 GMT for maintenance.)

DATES

We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for further information.

REFERENCES AND LINKS

• BioCreative website (new!): http://www.biocreative.org
• BioCreative MetaServer (BCMS): http://bcms.bioinfo.cnio.es
• Author-based annotations (FEBS Letters SDAs):
• summary [http://www.febsletters.org/content/sda_summary]
• special issue [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/4938-2008-994179991-684107]
• BioCreative I: special issue
  [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6?issue=S1&page=1]
• BioCreative II: special issue
  [http://genomebiology.com/supplements/9/S2]
  

Thank you,

the BioCreative Organizers

Alfonso Valencia
Martin Krallinger
Florian Leitner
* CNIO - Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

Lynette Hirschman
Scott Mardis
* The MITRE Corporation

Gianni Cesareni
* MINT Database