All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST) using the standard 24 hour clock. ⚡ denotes a lightning talk (10 minutes, including Q&A). 🎞️ denotes a long talk (20 minutes, including Q&A).
See here for information about pre-conference workshops, occurring both on Sunday evening (the day before the conference) and on Monday (the morning before the conference).
Sunday, April 23rd
2nd Mapping Commons Workshop on Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 14.30-17.30
Monday, April 24th
Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry Ontologies with Wikidata Workshop
- Location
- Spazio 35
- Time
- 9.00-11.00
Gaining Perspective Towards Enhancing the Intersection of Biocuration and Machine Learning Workshop
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 9.00-12.00
Functional Impact of Glycans and Their Curation Workshop
- Location
- Spazio 35
- Time
- 11.00-13.00
Lunch Break and Sponsors Exhibition
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 13.15-14.15
Conference Salutation from Charles Tapley Hoyt
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 14.30-14.45
- Session Chairs
- Charles Tapley Hoyt, Silvio Tosatto
ISB Greeting from Ruth Lovering (ISB EC Chair)
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 14.45-15.00
- Session Chairs
- Charles Tapley Hoyt, Silvio Tosatto
Keynote 1 - Paula Leitman
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 15.00-16.00
- Session Chairs
- Charles Tapley Hoyt, Deepti J Kundu
Coffee Break and Sponsors Exhibition
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 16.00-16.30
Standards 1
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 16.30-18.00
- Session Chairs
- Frédérique Lisacek, Deepti J Kundu
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 16.30-16.50 |
🎞️
Human-pathogen interaction networks: IMEx’s approach on the contextual metadata of the experimental evidence. Kalpana Panneerselvam |
| 16.50-17.10 |
🎞️
Gene Ontology Causal Activity Models (GO-CAMs) for human biology Patrick Masson |
| 17.10-17.30 |
🎞️
The Knowledge Graph Development Kit David Osumi-Sutherland |
| 17.30-17.40 |
⚡
ICGC-ARGO Data Submission Workflow - Integration of data validation and submission to accelerate the data curation and improve the data quality Qian Xiang |
| 17.40-17.50 |
⚡
Multiplexed scRNA-seq Experiments in Biocuration Yalan Bi |
Welcome cocktail
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 18.30-20.00
Tuesday, April 25th
Keynote 2 - Marco Roos
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 9.00-10.00
- Session Chairs
- Paola Roncaglia, Deepak R. Unni
FAIR 1
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 10.00-10.30
- Session Chairs
- Deepak R. Unni, Paola Roncaglia
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 10.00-10.10 |
⚡
APICURON: standardizing attribution of biocuration activity to promote engagement Adel Bouhraoua |
| 10.10-10.20 |
⚡
scFAIR: Standardization and stewardship of single-cell metadata Frederic B. Bastian |
| 10.20-10.30 |
⚡
Resolving code names to structures from the medicinal chemistry literature: not as FAIR as it should be Christopher Southan |
Coffee Break and Sponsors Exhibition
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 10.30-11.00
FAIR 2
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 11.00-12.30
- Session Chairs
- Deepak R. Unni, Paola Roncaglia
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 11.00-11.20 |
🎞️
GigaDB: Utilising ontologies to curate data publications Christopher Hunter |
| 11.20-11.40 |
🎞️
KG-IDG: A FAIR Knowledge Graph for Illuminating the Druggable Genome J. Harry Caufield |
| 11.40-12.00 |
🎞️
A 20 year perspective on FAIR and TRUST-worthy Human Disease Knowledge Representation. Lynn M Schriml |
| 12.00-12.10 |
⚡
FAIR Wizard: Making the FAIRification process accessible Wei Kheng Teh |
| 12.10-12.20 |
⚡
Providing Expanded Contextual Metadata for Biological Samples using Both Geographic and Taxonomic Factors Peter Woollard |
| 12.20-12.30 |
⚡
Making expert curated knowledge graphs FAIR Jerven Bolleman |
Lunch Break and Sponsors Exhibition
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 12.30-13:30
Applications 1
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 13.30-14.30
- Session Chairs
- Philippe Le Mercier, Michael Baudis
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 13.30-13.50 |
🎞️
Biocuration in DisProt, the manually curated database for intrinsically disordered proteins Silvio Tosatto |
| 13.50-14.10 |
🎞️
The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database - Curating the Global Resistome Brian Alcock |
| 14.10-14.30 |
🎞️
Annotation of biologically relevant ligands in UniProtKB using ChEBI Elisabeth Coudert |
AI and Text Mining 1
- Location
- Spazio 35
- Time
- 13.30-14.30
- Session Chairs
- Jennifer Harrow, Tiago Lubiana
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 13.30-13.50 |
🎞️
ACKnowledge: expanding community curation to include fact extraction using artificial intelligence Kimberly Van Auken |
| 13.50-14.10 |
🎞️
Machine Learning for Scalable Biocuration Rebecca Foulger |
| 14.10-14.20 |
⚡
BioKC: a collaborative platform for curation and annotation of molecular interactions Marek Ostaszweski |
| 14.20-14.30 |
⚡
Building a reference dataset of single-cell RNA-Seq data for training Machine-Learning algorithms Anne Niknejad |
Applications 2
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 14.45-15.45
- Session Chairs
- Michael Baudis, Philippe Le Mercier
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 14.45-14.55 |
⚡
The landscape of microRNA interactions annotation in IMEx: analysis of three rare disorders as case study Simona Panni |
| 14.55-15.05 |
⚡
Medical Action Ontology (MAxO) development and tool implementation for the annotation of Rare Disease (RD) Leigh C Carmody |
| 15.05-15.15 |
⚡
Improved Insights into the SABIO-RK Database via Visualization Ulrike Wittig |
| 15.15-15.25 |
⚡
Phenopackets for curated repository data over Beacon v2 Progenetix database Ziying Yang |
| 15.25-15.35 |
⚡
Unifying Protein Complex Curation across the Diversity of Species Sandra Orchard |
AI and Text Mining 2
- Location
- Spazio 35
- Time
- 14.45-15.45
- Session Chairs
- Tiago Lubiana, Jennifer Harrow
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 14.45-14.55 |
⚡
eMIND: Enabling automatic collection of protein variation impacts in Alzheimer’s disease from the literature Cecilia Arighi |
| 14.55-15.05 |
⚡
Machine-assisted curation of molecular mechanisms using automated knowledge extraction and assembly Benjamin M. Gyori |
| 15.05-15.15 |
⚡
Assessing the Use of Supplementary Materials to Improve Genomic Variant Discovery Emilie Pasche |
| 15.15-15.25 |
⚡
A Framework for Assisting MeSH Vocabulary Development at the National Library of Medicine: Reliably Identifying Literature Containing New Chemical Substances Rezarta Islamaj |
| 15.25-15.35 |
⚡
Predicting protein metal binding sites with artificial intelligence and machine learning in UniProt Rossana Zaru |
Poster Session 1 (Even Numbers)
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 16.00-17.00
Poster Session 2 (Odd Numbers)
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 17.00-18.00
Evening Networking or Social Dinner
- Location
- Caffè Pedrocchi
- Time
- 20.00-23.30
Wednesday, April 26th
Keynote 3 - Guy Cochrane
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 9.00-10.00
- Session Chairs
- Luana Licata, Deepti J Kundu
Community 1
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 10.00-10.40
- Session Chairs
- Luana Licata, Frédérique Lisacek
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 10.00-10.10 |
⚡
A complete draft human gene functionome from large-scale evolutionary modeling and experimental Gene Ontology annotations Marc Feuermann |
| 10.10-10.20 |
⚡
Towards making sense of glycan-mediated protein-protein interactions Catherine Hayes |
| 10.20-10.40 |
🎞️
Single Cell Expression Atlas and FlyBase - the Fly Cell Atlas Anatomograms – where data meets art Nancy George |
Coffee Break and Sponsors Exhibition
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 10.40-11.10
Careers in Biocuration Panel/Workshop
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 11.10-12.10
- Session Chairs
- Deepti J Kundu, Philippe Le Mercier
Lunch Break and Sponsors Exhibition
- Location
- Agora
- Time
- 12.10-13.10
Community 2
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 13.10-14.30
- Session Chairs
- Frédérique Lisacek, Luana Licata
| Time (CEST) | Title |
|---|---|
| 13.10-13.30 |
🎞️
Promoting the longevity of curated scientific resources through open code, open data, and public infrastructure Charles Tapley Hoyt |
| 13.30-13.40 |
⚡
Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types Tiago Lubiana |
| 13.40-14.00 |
🎞️
Leveraging crowdsourcing and curation prioritisation for maintenance of clinical gene panels Arina Puzriakova |
| 14.00-14.10 |
⚡
Community SARS-CoV-2 Curation Driven Emergent Experiences - Increased Curation Efficiency and Learned Lessons for the Future Henning Hermjakob |
| 14.10-14.20 |
⚡
wwPDB Biocuration: Supporting Advances in Science and Technology Irina Persikova |
| 14.20-14.30 |
⚡
Accessing UK Biobank-derived data through the AZ PheWAS portal, with reassigned phenotypic ICD10 codes. Jennifer Harrow |
Valediction and ISB Time
- Location
- Sala Piero Tortolina Auditorium
- Time
- 14.30-15.30
- Session Chairs
- Charles Tapley Hoyt, Silvio Tosatto