This symposium celebrates the 10th birthday of UniProt in 2012. In 2002, forty years after the first comprehensive collection of protein sequences, the “Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure”, was published, the SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL protein sequence databases at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and the Protein Information Resource (PIR) in Washington, joined forces to create UniProt.
UniProt is used widely by scientists from a variety of life science fields in academia and industry. In this symposium, renowned speakers will give insight into their work and highlight how protein databases are underpinning life sciences. The symposium aims at anyone with an interest in proteins and their functions, including proteomics researchers, data curators, and bioinformaticians.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
Delegates who would like to present at the symposium work from fields such as listed above, which shows high-quality current research with relation to protein databases, are invited to submit an abstract for a talk or a poster at abstractsUP12@isb-sib.ch.
Let us know how you use UniProt! The best abstracts will be picked for oral presentation, and speakers get free registration.
Deadline for abstract submission, both for oral presentations and posters, is May 1, 2012. Authors will be notified about acceptance by June 1, 2012. Poster abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words long, abstracts for oral presentations a maximum of 2 pages. Accepted oral presenters will be given a 15 minute time slot to present their work.
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Introductory remarks by Rolf Apweiler, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
* Patricia Babbitt, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
* David Eisenberg, UCLA - DOE, Los Angeles, USA.
* Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
* Edward Marcotte, University of Texas, Austin, USA.
* William Pearson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
* Torsten Schwede, SIB & Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
* Paul Thomas, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
* Mathias Uhlen, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
We invite you to submit abstracts for oral presentations and posters that show high-quality current research with relation to protein databases in the fields of Interactions & protein modeling, Proteomics, Protein structure & function, and Genome analysis & annotation.
For more information on the meeting and abstract submission see http://www.eccb12.org/uniprot10.
