Workshop 2: Annotation, Interpretation and Management of Mutations (AIMM)

Workshop Website: http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2010/

At the ECCB: http://www.eccb10.org/index.php/workshops/workshop2

This will workshop showcase the state of the art in extraction and reuse of genotype-phenotype information. Annotation of mutations with their impact on phenotypic expression is crucial to understanding genetic mechanisms involved in phenotypic processes and ultimately in complex diseases. Managing this knowledge is key to generating novel hypotheses. Despite the existence of literature and databases describing impacts of mutations, association studies fail to deliver linkage to phenotypes which is the most important contemporary research interest. Extraction of such information from scientific literature is a promising research field and existing solutions are ready to be deployed as services and as semantic web services.

Organizers

Christopher J. O. Baker,PhD
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Innovatia Research Chair, Department of Computer Science and Applied Statistics
University of New Brunswick
Saint John, Canada
Email:kerc@unb.ca

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann,MD,PhD
Research Group Leader
European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD,
United Kingdom
Email: Rebholz@ebi.ac.uk

René Witte
Dr.-Ing.,Assistant Professor,Group Leader
Semantic Software Lab, Concordia University
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Montreal, Canada
Email:rwitte@cse.concordia.ca

Venue: ECCB2010 @ Ghent, Belgium. http://www.eccb2010.org/

Previous Workshop in 2008 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/aimm.html

Visit our website http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2010/ to keep track of our most recent updates.

Keynote speakers

Michael Schroeder
Professor BIOTEC Technical University Dresden, DE.

Joost Schymkowitz
Professor VIB Switch Laboratory,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel.