GSC at ISMB/ECCB 2007

Towards a richer set of information to describe our complete genome collection

From Genomic Standards Consortium

Birds of a Feather meeting for the GSC, to be held during the ISMB/ECCB 2007 meeting.

Presentation Slides

Lynette Hirschman - Image:Hirschman.pdf
Dawn Field - Image:FieldISMB.pdf
Tatiana Tatusova - Image:Tatusova.ppt

Time, Date, Location, Facilities

Time: the meeting would be held over the lunch hour
Date: Monday 23rd July 2007
Location:
Facilities: The room will hold upwards to 100 (although we will not which room at this point). The room will have a computer, projector, and internet.

* Advertisement slide: [BoF Advert Slide]

Purpose

Brief Description

The aim of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) is to support the community-based development of a genomic standard that captures a richer set of information about complete genomes and metagenomic datasets.

An introduction to the GSC will be given, together with an open discussion concerning topics of relevance to the GSC. For further information, please visit: http://gensc.sf.net

The purpose of the BoF is to provide an introduction to the GSC and its activities, and to describe some of the issues relevant to the GSC. It will provide an opportunity for GSC members to meet each other as well as people interested in the work of the GSC.

Agenda

12.30 - 12.40 : Introduction by Tatiana Tatusov
12.40 - 12.50 : Dawn Field - An Overview of GSC Activities
12.50 - 13.00 : Robert Stevens - Harnessing Ontologies to Describe Genomes
13.00 - 13.10 : Lynette Hirschman - Mining Metadata for Metagenomics
13.10 - 13.30 : Open Discussion

GSC members who will attend

Robert Stevens
Susanna-A Sansone
Renzo Kottman
Lynette Hirschman]
Peter Dawyndt
Tatiana Tatusov
Tanya Gray
Dawn Field
Norman Morrison

Emailed responses:

Dawn Field

I will be there too, and I’m glad to see it will be Saturday. My main commitment is the micro-SIG on comparative microbial genomics the day before - I will talk about our work with QIPP but will mention the GSC and can advertise the BoF as well.

http://micro-sig.lbl.gov/

I could send an announcement of the BoF to the speakers in that session once you have further details.

Robert Stevens

I shall be there, keen to attend and my only duties are chairing the Ontology and Db session (and I haven’t looked to see when it is). I’m also doing some kind of feedback session for the bio-ontologies SIG on Sunday.

I’m always happy to talk about “what does it all mean anyway?”.

Susanna-A Sansone

I would be there on friday (when is the Bio-Ontology SIG), but am free on saturday, in case that would be the chosen day.

Lynette Hirschman

I will be at ISMB and would be happy to participate – and if anyone wants to talk about text mining (or to hear about what we discussed), I could say about 5 min worth on that or contribute a couple slides to an overview.

Renzo Kottmann

I will attend the BOF and would like a day as early as possible.

Tatiana Tatusov

I’ll be at the meeting and will be interested in attending BoF. I can lead some of the discussions either on genome annotation or on metagenomics

Peter Dawyndt

I will be at the ISMB/ECCB an surely am interested to attend the meeting. Hideaki Sugaware (DDBJ) will also be there, and also informed me on the fact that he would be interested to attend the meeting.

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if we want to reach out to the user community, the best aproach is a hybrid between a general presentation of the GSC and its different goals, followed by a round table discussion. What could also help is a short background paper that summarizes the activities of the GSC. After all, the ISMB/ECCB BoF gives a chance to inform people that have never heard of the GSC whatsoever.

Event Log

25 June 2007

Telecon scheduled for 4pm GMT+1 to agree on format for the meeting Telecon:_2007_06_25

14 June 2007

Notice sent out to gensc-wgs-all about change of date, and request for times to hold telecon on 21/22/25 June:

Emails from ISMB BoF contact - Steven Leard:

HI - we can change it to Monday.

Hello - the meeting can only be held during the conference days of Sunday to Wednesday. They are held over the lunch break. The room will hold upwards to 100 (although we will not which room at this point). The room will have a computer, projector, and internet.

Sent in application to hold GSC BoF: http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/bof/

Topic:

Genomic Standards Consortium

Topic Leader:

Tatiana Tatusov

Leader’s email address

curator@ceh.ac.uk

Affiliation

NIH/NLM/NCBI

Preferred Day

Saturday

Brief Description

An introduction to the GSC will be given, together with an open discussion concerning topics of relevance to the GSC. For further information, please visit: http://gensc.sf.net

12 June 2007

Proposal to hold BoF sent to gensc-wgs-all mailing list