Symposium

Public symposium of the BioHackathon 2013 will be held at Tokyo Skytree Space 634 on June 23 (Sun).

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12:30 Registration opens

13:00 Welcome coffee

13:30 Opening remarks

13:30-13:35 Welcome address
Michio Oishi National Bioscience Database Center, Japan
13:35-13:45 Introduction to the NBDC/DBCLS BioHackathon 2013
Toshiaki Katayama Database Center for Life Science, Japan
13:45-14:00 Integration of Microbial Data Resources with Semantic Web Technologies
Shuichi Kawashima Database Center for Life Science, Japan

14:00 Invited talks

14:00-14:30 Tripling Bioinformatics Productivity
Jerven Bolleman Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
14:30-14:50 Semantic Web Technologies in Proteomics. An EBI overview
Antonio Fabregat European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
14:50-15:10 Data integration in Tohoku Medical Megabank project
Soichi Ogishima Tohoku University, Japan
15:10-15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:30-15:50 Linking Text Mining Efforts to Semantic Web
Jin-Dong Kim Database Center for Life Science, Japan
15:50-16:10 Towards Standardization of Annotation Representation for Text and Other Web Resources
Karin Verspoor National Information and Communications Technology, Australia
16:10-16:30 The FANTOM5 project: Identifying the complete set of promoters used to define cellularity
Hideya Kawaji RIKEN, Japan
16:30-16:50 Opportunities and Challenges in Nanopublishing
Mark Thompson Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
16:50-17:10 Identifiers.org: Practical Integration Tool for Heterogeneous Datasets
Nick Juty European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
17:10-17:30 BioDBCore: Current Status and Next Developments
Pascale Gaudet Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

17:30 Group photo

18:00 Skytree tour

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