NaCTeM

Text Mining / Bioinformatics Symposium

A symposium to explore the interface between Text Mining and Bioinformatics.

17 July 2007 — MIB Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester

We are uniquely positioned at Manchester to capitalise on the interaction between these two disciplines, and we hope that this informal, half-day event will allow us to gain a better appreciation for the current activities that bridge these communities, and stimulate ideas for new projects and grant proposals in these areas.

Event Schedule

Session 1

13:00 - 13:15 Casey Bergman
"Exploring the role of text mining in regulatory bioinformatics."

13:15 - 13:30 Sophia Ananiadou
"Providing bio-text mining services using advanced natural language
processing."

13:30 - 13:45 Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
"Similarity measures for smart gene/protein name dictionary look-up."

13:45 - 14:00 David Robertson
"Identifying best practice in molecular phylogenetics."

14:00 - 14:15 Break

Session 2

14:15 - 14:30 Terri Attwood
"Developing annotation tools for database curators."

14:30 - 14:45 Goran Nenadic
"Mining hypotheses from biomedical literature."

14:45 - 15:00 John McNaught
"Bootstrapping bio-lexica and bio-ontologies for gene regulation."

15:00 - 15:15 Irena Spasic
"Facilitating the development of controlled vocabularies for
metabolomics with text mining."

15:15 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:30 Discussion

16:30 - 17:30
Drinks, demos and follow up discussion in the ATRIUM