Public symposium of the BioHackathon 2014 will be held at the Tohoku Medical Megabank, Sendai, Japan, on Nov 9 (Sun).
Note for domestic participants: The symposium is free and requires no prior registration, however, those who plan to have a conference lunch together with us, please make a reservation here just by adding your name (accepting until Sep 21st).
Note for speakers: Please try to leave 5min for Q&A within a given slot.
- 8:30 Meet up at the hotel lobby
- 9:00 Registration opens
- 10:00 Introduction from organizers
10:00-10:05 |
Welcome address |
10:05-10:20 |
Introduction to the NBDC/DBCLS BioHackathon 2014 |
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Toshiaki Katayama Database Center for Life Science, Japan |
10:20-10:40 |
Introduction to the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (TBD) |
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Masao Nagasaki Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Japan |
10:40-11:00 |
Integrated database and triplestore in prospective cohort study at the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project |
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Soichi Ogishima Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Japan |
- 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:20 Invited talks
11:20-11:40 |
Embracing Semantic Web Technologies at the European Bioinformatics Institute |
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Simon Jupp European Bioinformatics Institute, UK |
11:40-12:00 |
Identifiers.org: new services to support the Semantic Web community |
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Sarala Wimalaratne European Bioinformatics Institute, UK |
12:00-12:20 |
Introduction to BioJS |
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Leyla Jael Garcia Castro European Bioinformatics Institute, UK |
- 12:20 Lightning talks #1
- 12:40 Lunch
- 13:30 Invited talks
13:30-13:45 |
Construction of ortholog database using the Semantic Web technology |
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Hirokazu Chiba National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan |
13:45-14:00 |
Semantic integration of orthology resources: beyond the OGO experience |
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Jesualdo Thomas Fernandez Breis University of Murcia, Spain |
14:00-14:20 |
Text mining for ontology learning and matching |
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Jung-Jae Kim Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
- 14:20 Coffee break
- 14:40 Invited talks
14:40-15:00 |
Rhea: a reactions database linking biology and chemistry |
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Thierry Lombardot Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland |
15:00-15:20 |
PRIDE and ProteomeXchange – Making proteomics data accessible and reusable |
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Yasset Perez-Riverol European Bioinformatics Institute, UK |
15:20-15:40 |
PubChemRDF: Towards a semantic (web) description of PubChem |
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Evan Bolton National Center for Biotechnology Information, US |
15:40-16:00 |
Challenges and Solutions for Data Integrity in Linked Data Systems |
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Robert Buels Foundation Medicine, US |
- 16:00 Lightning talks #2
- 16:30 Group photo / ToMMo tour
- 17:30 Bus to the hackathon venue
- 19:00 Reception party
Live streaming will be available at
Video streaming by Ustream |
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