Re: [Obo-discuss] [go-friends] Abstract Submission Deadline extended : Biocuration Conference 2013

[Antonia L. <a....@uc...>]

Score! I panicked a bit when Irealized I should get it in today.

What do you think about:

 We have developed a web-based tool to support community curation on a
large scale. The community annotation tool, CANTO, is highly configurable
and can be set up for use by most research communities, with minimal
support from professional curators. It is therefore highly suitable for
research communities not supported by a manual curation team, but who want
to contribute gene-specific experimental information to the biological
databases from their organism.



To date, CANTO has been set-up and used for community curation by the *S.
pombe* community, the *K. pastoris* (Pichia) community and in Gene Ontology
workshops at UCL where researchers and post-graduates are invited to curate
their own papers of interest. The tool can be set-up to recognize different
identifiers such as organism specific systematic gene identifiers, or
UniProt identifiers. It is also configurable for the types of data that can
be curated. For instance, in the UCL curation workshops, community curators
are restricted to annotating their gene to GO terms whereas the *S.
pombe*community can curate additional information, such as phenotypes
and
post-translational modifications.



The tool is fully accessible online, thereby avoiding the need to download
software which might discourage certain users. We have integrated help and
tips where appropriate, however, feedback from community curators is very
positive stating that the tool is very intuitive and easy to use. The tool
is in continuous development, meaning that we can use feedback from users
to improve existing features or to implement new ones.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Valerie Wood <vw...@ca...> wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues,
>
> The deadline for submitting an abstract for the 6th Biocuration
> Conference  has been extended by  until midnight *February 3rd, 2013 (PST)
> *, due to problems with the submission software. ****
>
> For more information please visit http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biocuration2013/***
> *
>
> To be considered for a Biocuration 2013 presentation or poster you MUST
> pre-register and SUBMIT an abstract for the meeting.****
>
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> More Key Dates:****
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> Early Bird Registration ends: 25th February 2013****
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> Online registration ends: 30th March 2013****
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> Conference dates: 7-10th April 2013****
>
> 2013 GMOD meeting dates: 5-6th April 2013****
>
> Ontologies with Galaxy Workshop: 6th April 2013****
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> We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge in April (7th-10th) 2013.****
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-- 
Antonia Lock, PhD
PomBase Biocurator, http://www.pombase.org
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment,
The Darwin Building,
University College London
London WC1E 6BT, UK