+ International Society for Biocuration Newsletter September 2013 Election week is here: it's time to VOTE! +If you have not already done so, inform yourself and vote! The Executive Committee is composed of nine (9) members, each with a 2-year term. This year there are five (5) open positions. The list of candidates for the 2013 Elections of the ISB Executive Committee is available at http://biocurator.org/isb_election.shtml The last day to vote is Wednesday, September 18th, 2013. Only paying members with registration fees cleared on or before September 17th will be entitled and allowed to vote. We would like to kindly thank this year's volunteers of the nominating committee: Amos Bairoch (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland), Tomás Di Domenico (University of Padova, Italy), Robin Haw (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada), Suzanna Lewis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), and Betina Porcel (CEA, IG, Genoscope, France). 12 + ISB Regional Micro-Grants Apply Today! ISB Micro-Grants are meant to [email protected] no later than 30 sponsor local/regional short meetings days after the end of the meeting. The of ISB members to synergize their report will be also posted on the ISB work efforts, to generate a space to Newsletter. share their work, and to further help to advance the goals of the society. To apply, members fill out and sign a form and submit a description of the Micro-Grants are awarded in the purpose of the meeting, its target amount of (US) $250 per group, and audience and possible affiliations, and applications may be submitted at any how the meeting will benefit the time (i.e. no deadlines). If awarded, members of the ISB community. To the group will write a 300-word report request a form, please contact us at informing the ISB membership about [email protected] with the subject the outcomes of the meeting. This line ‘ISB Micro-Grants Application’. report must be sent to 2 ISB Newsletter September 2013 12 + News and Views from the ISB Community ‘ISB Spotlight’ in Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, EMBnet.journal Education & Training: GOBLET “EMBnet.journal: Bioinformatics Without GOBLET was established in 2012, after Borders" is an international, open access, leaders of several Bioinformatics, on-line, peer-reviewed journal, Biocuration, Biocomputing, and established in 2010 as a successor to the Computational Biology societies and EMBnet.news magazine (published by networks met to discuss worldwide EMBnet since 1994). One of the Journal’s training initiatives at a workshop in primary goals is to provide life scientists Uppsala, hosted by EMBnet. The meeting with practical information to help: concluded that an umbrella organisation - tackle routine data- to coordinate international training analysis tasks (basic activities would be useful: to share, not or advanced) duplicate, efforts and costs; to work together towards common solutions and a - implement complex sustainable future. IT architectural infrastructures - address challenges The ISB was one of the 10 founders of of modern, data- GOBLET, which now has more than 20 driven life science member organisations and several research. individual members. The most recent meeting was hosted by the ISCB, in Berlin, alongside the events of This month, the Journal publishes a new ISMB/ECCB 2013; the possibility of the ISB feature, ISB Spotlight, providing a hosting a GOBLET meeting during the snapshot of some of the work and 2014 Biocuration Conference in Toronto is activities of members of the Society. The now under discussion. Spotlight presents brief descriptions of a range of databases and biocuration tools, re-published in the Journal, with More recently, GOBLET permission, from the News & Views was presented in a section of this newsletter. The latest issue ‘lightning talk’ at the of the Journal, featuring the first ISB Workshop for e- Spotlight, is freely available from Infrastructure Trainers http://journal.embnet.org/index.php/em held on 14 August at the bnetjournal/issue/archive. Hartree Centre in Daresbury, UK To find out more, and request information, (http://goo.gl/8QDKjq). please contact us at http://www.embnet.org/contact_form. To find out more, and request information please visit us at Submitted by Terri Attwood http://www.mygoblet.org. on behalf of ISB and EMBnet Submitted by Terri Attwood on behalf of ISB and GOBLET. ISB Newsletter September 2013 3 123 + Upcoming Conferences Workshop on Ontologies and Data Korea) with a public symposium on the in Life Sciences What: HGV2013 will bring latest developments in Network http://tinyurl.com/odls-2013-en together human geneticists from Biology. Please find program and When: Sep 19-20 around the world to explore and registration details below. Where: Koblenz, Germany share the latest in genetic Notes: Registration deadline is 23 What: This workshop integrates technology, cancer genetics, September 2013. workshops of two series: the population genetics, genomic workshop series Data in Life Sciences medicine and more. NETTAB 2013: Semantic, Social, and Ontologies in Biomedicine and and Mobile Applications for Life Sciences (OBML), thereby BioCreative IV Critical Bioinformatics and Biomedical connecting two important areas of Challenge & Workshop Laboratories biomedical research. This http://www.biocreative.org/event http://www.nettab.org/2013/ connection covers the overall s/biocreative-iv/CFP/ When: Oct 16-18, 2013 spectrum of biomedical information When: October 7-9, 2013 Where: Lido of Venice, Italy processing, from experimental data Where: NCBI, National Institutes What: The NETTAB 2013 acquisition and data management, of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. workshop will explore mobile, across analysis, structuring and What: BioCreative is a social, and semantic solutions for interpretation of data, up to the community-wide effort for bioinformatics and laboratory development of structures of evaluating text mining and informatics. A savvy combination knowledge in the form of ontologies information extraction systems of these technologies could with their various applications. applied to the biological domain. greatly enhance the research Notes: Paper submission deadline: One key goal of BioCreative is the outcome of life scientists and Apr 22, 2013 active involvement of the text markedly simplify workflows in mining user community in the biomedical laboratories. 12th International Conference on design of the tracks, preparation Bioinformatics - InCoB2013 of corpus and the testing of Discovery Informatics http://ictbi.imed-cn.org/incob2013 interactive systems. Symposium: AI Takes a When: Sep 20-22, 2013. Science-Centered View on Big Where: Taicang (China). 10th Annual Network Biology Data What: InCoB2013 has overall Symposium and Cytoscape http://www.discoveryinformaticsi objective to provide a platform for Workshop nitiative.org/dis2013 experts and budding http://nrnb.org/cyretreat2013/ When: November 15–17, 2013 bioinformaticians to discuss and When: October 9-10, 2013 Where: Arlington, VA (USA) exchange ideas and thoughts on the Where: Institut Pasteur - Paris, What: Part of the AAAI Fall development of bioinformatics in the France Symposium Series, this Asia Pacific region. What: The annual Network symposium will provide a forum Biology Symposium and for researchers interested in HGV2013: 14th International Cytoscape Workshop brings understanding the role of AI meeting on Human genome together the entire Network techniques in improving or variation and complex genome Biology and Cytoscape innovating scientific processes. analysis communities, including users and Notes: To receive further http://www.hgv2013.org/home developers, for an overview of notifications about this and When: September 30th - October network biology, and a series of related meetings you may 2nd, 2013 tutorials, workshops, meetings subscribe to: Where: JW Marriott Hotel (19-3 and demos. The meeting kicks off http://discoveryinformaticsinitiati Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South ve.org/mailman/listinfo/dii 4 ISB Newsletter September 2013 + Biocuration Job Opportunities. Bioinformatics Analyst. Mouse Genome Database (MGD), BarHarbor, MA, USA. Posted September 8, 2013. Details available at http://goo.gl/uxdpjH Scientific Curator. Mouse Genome Database (MGD), BarHarbor, MA, USA. Posted September 8, 2013. Find more about this position at http://goo.gl/3iRlLq Community Manager. National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO), Stanford University, CA, USA. Posted August 13, 2013. Details available at http://biocurator.org/jobs/NCBO_Community_Manager.pdf Data wrangler. Oregon Health & Science University, Eugene, OR, USA. Posted August 4, 2013. More information available at http://biocurator.org/jobs/Data_wrangler_OHSU.pdf Young investigators. the Institute for Computational Biology of Montpellier, France. Posted on August 4 2013, Closing Date: 15 September 2013. For further details visit http://www.ibc- montpellier.fr/open-positions/young-investigators PhD position. Semantic Web, biomedical ontologies, multilingualism, Montpellier, France. Posted July 2, 2013. Please find more information at http://www.lirmm.fr/sifr/positions/2013_SIFR_PhD_position.html Biocurator. Genestack, Cambridge, UK. Posted on May 24, 2013. Find more about this positions at http://www.genestack.com/careers Senior Software engineer. Genestack, Cambridge, UK. Posted May 24, 2013. More information can be found at http://www.genestack.com/careers Scientific Curator. Eugene, OR, USA. Posted March 23, 2013. Details available