Internaional Workshop on Genomics Databases 2007

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

International Workshop on Genomic Databases (IWGD�07)
August 29-31, 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Many bioinformatics projects use a set of chained software packages, which produce and consume a significant amount of data. Besides accessing distributed public databases, most projects also maintain their data in local files or, most often, in databases. They usually constitute independent initiatives leading to redundant efforts and proprietary solutions, which lack standard formats and terminology, making interoperability with other resources a hard task. In order to address this issue, general database schemas capable of storing a comprehensive scope of genomic information for a wide range of interests have been proposed. GUS and CHADO are the most relevant initiatives for this purpose. Although many projects in areas such as Genomics, Post-genomics and Bioinformatics have been supported by government agencies in Brazil, there is still little discussion on standards, interoperability and integration issues. Besides, as the number of bioinformatics projects grows, new data management issues emerge, such as projects and experiments management, workflow support to programs executions, ontology driven querying and resource integration, data mediation and distribution, data provenance, data mining, etc.

The IWGD is one of the first workshops to be organized in Brazil focusing on genomic databases. It is organized by the BiowebDB consortium (http://www.biowebdb.org) and it is intended to bring together researchers working on issues related to designing, managing, integrating, accessing and exploring genomic databases, giving them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and motivating atmosphere.

Invited speakers

 Kimmen Sjolander 
 Susan Davidson 
 Julian Gough 
 Kathy Wu

Topics of Interest

The workshop seeks to provide a forum for these topics of interest, but not limited to:

Biological Databases
Biological Data Integration
Biological Data Mining
Biological Data Visualization
Biological Information Extraction and Retrieval
Biological Knowledge Bases
Biological Knowledge Representation and Inference
Bioontologies
Biological Data Distribution
Biological Knowledge Discovery and Learning
Molecular Sequence Databases
Phylogeny Databases Systems
Biology databases

Poster Submission

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work for a poster
session to [email protected] with the subject "IWGD 2007". English is the
workshop official language. To present a poster at the workshop, authors must
submit an abstract (*.RTF format) on the topic or theme to be discussed.
Abstracts should use Times New Roman 12 fonts and be no longer than 2 A4 pages
(1 inch to each margin), where:

1st page will contain only:
   Title of the abstract
   Authors and their filiation
   Body of the abstract
2nd page will contain only:
   References
   References should follow the BMC Bioinformatics format (examples available
at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/ifora/#references). All
authors who present their posters at the workshop will have their abstracts
published on the conference Web site. All posters will be displayed at the
beginning of the workshop

IWGD poster session provides space on a poster board that is 1.20m wide and
1.80m high. If you are sizing your poster for a use other than a conference
poster session or for easy transportation, you can set the dimensions to any
size you like. Just remember that you will be able to print single-sheet
posters up to 1.18m wide and 1.78m high. 


Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline - June, 29th 2007.
Notification to authors - July, 15th2007.


Workshop Chairs

Alberto M. R. D�vila, FIOCRUZ RJ, Brazil, davila AT fiocruz.br
Marta Mattoso, COPPE Sistemas - UFRJ, Brazil, marta AT cos.ufrj.br


Organizing Committee

Maria Luiza Campos, DCC/NCE; UFRJ, Brazil, mluiza AT nce.ufrj.br
Guilherme de Oliveira, FIOCRUZ MG, Brazil oliveira AT cpqrr.fiocruz.br
Maria Claudia Cavalcanti, IME RJ, Brazil, yoko AT de9.ime.eb.br
Fernanda Bai�o - UNIRIO, Brazil, fernanda.baiao AT uniriotec.br

Supported by:

Fogarty International Center
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Banco do Brasil
CNPq / MCT
Faperj

Rita Daniela Fern�ndez Medina 1, Cl�udio Jos� Struchiner 1, Jos� Marcos Ribeiro 2.

1 Escola Nacional de Sa�de P�blica, Funda��o Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2 Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research. NIAID, NIH. Rockville, MD 20852 USA

Semantic Web Reasoning: Novel Paradigms for Knowledge Modelling in Bioinformatics

The use of OC identifier tool selecting optimal clones in finished genomes as an alternative to synthesis of primers for DNA Microarray analysis

An environment for managing and executioning gene expression experiments with microarrays

MULTIOBJECTIVE EVOLUCIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR BIOLOGICAL MULTIPLE SEQUENCES ALIGNMENT

Margarita Ramona Ruiz Olazar1, Eugenius Kaszcurewicz1, Benjam�n Bar�n Cegla2

Impact of 16S rDNA sequence heterogeneity and redundancy on the phylogeny, diversity and identification of bacteria of the order Firmicutes.

1. IOC / FIOCRUZ / RJ; 2. CCB / UFSC / SC; 3. IME / RJ; 4.NCE / UFRJ / RJ; 5.COPPE / UFRJ / RJ; 6.ACBS / UNOESC / SC

Selection of Predictive Genes from Cancer DNA Microarrays Using Evolutionary and Recursive Models.

BioAgents: A Multiagent System for Manual Annotation on Genome Sequencing Projects

Federal University of S�o Carlos, Computer Science Department, S�o Carlos, Brazil

Kele T. Belloze1, Maria Claudia Cavalcanti 1, Renata M. Araujo2, Felipe F. Albrecht1, Alberto M. R. D�vila3

Zerlotini A1, Moraes RLV1, Heiges M2, Wang H2, Stahl AO2, Kissinger JC2, Oliveira GC1

Applying Information Science and Terminology Theories to Ontologies Integration Strategies

1 - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Departamento de Ci�ncia da Computa��o