For those who have not seen this announcement... Info below can also be found at: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/cls/bbhome.nsf The National Research Council invites you to attend: BIOINFORMATICS: Converting Data to Knowledge Date: February 16, 2000 Location: National Academies 2101 Constitution Ave. N.W. Washington, DC Opening Remarks: (0830) (to be determined) Opening Presentation: The Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (0840) Brian Ray, American Association for the Advancement of Science Session I: Generating and Integrating Biological Data (0900-1030) a. Methods for data collection Dong-Guk Shin, University of Connecticut b. Data characteristics Stephen Koslow, Office on Neuroinformatics, National Institute of Mental Health c. Data integration Jim Garrels, Proteome, Inc. Moderated Discussion: By Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Break (1030-1045) Session II: Interoperability of Databases (1045-1230) a. Design features of interoperable databases Daniel Gardner, Cornell University b. Information retrieval and complex queries Peter Karp, SRI International c. Definition of data elements and database structure William Gelbart, Harvard University d. Novel approaches to achieving interoperability Jaron Lanier, National Tele-Immersion Initiative Moderated Discussion: By Perry Miller, Yale University Lunch (1230-1330) Session III: Database Integrity (1330-1500) a. Curation and quality control Michael Cherry, Stanford University b. Error detection protocols Chris Overton, University of Pennsylvania c. Methods for correcting errors (to be determined) Moderated Discussion (1415-1500) (to be determined) Break (1500-1515) Session IV: Converting Data to Knowledge--Analytical Approaches (1515-1645) a. Modeling and simulation James Bower, California Institute of Technology b. Data Mining Douglas Brutlag, Stanford University c. Visualization of model fit to data John Mazziotta, University of California Los Angeles Moderated Discussion (1600-1645) By Ray White, University of Utah Wrap Up (1645-1700) Adjourn (1700) -------------------------- J. Steinbachs, PhD Computational Biologist Dept of Botany The Field Museum Chicago, IL 60605-2496 office: 312-665-7810 fax: 312-665-7158 http://cb.fmnh.org --------------------------