Biocuration involves the translation and integration of information relevant to biology into a database or resource that enables integration of the scientific literature as well as large data sets. Accurate and comprehensive representation of biological knowledge, as well as easy access to this data for working scientists and a basis for computational analysis, are primary goals of biocuration.

The goals of biocuration are achieved thanks to the convergent endeavors of biocurators, software developers and researchers in bioinformatics. Biocurators provide essential resources to the biological community such that databases have become an integral part of the tools researchers use on a daily basis for their work.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Session Abstracts , which may offer you a talk at one of the conference sessions. The Session anstracts submission deadline is 15-Dec-2017, and the selection notices will be sent to the presenters by 15-Jan-2018. Those who have submitted session abstracts but not been given oral presentation chances, will be considered given a chance for poster presentation. 
• Posters. Poster submitters will only be given chance for poster presentation. The deadline is 15-Feb-2018, and the selection notices will be sent to the presenters by 15-Mar-2018.    For Poster Submission Only， you should specify it at the end of you abstract content that "For poster only".

List of Topics

• Precision Medicine
• Phenotypes, genotypes, and variants
• Data Standards and Ontologies
• Text Mining
• Functional Annotation
• Community Annotation
• Data Integration and Visualization
• Deep Learning in curation process
• Softwares, Applications and Systems in biocuration
• Curation Standards and Best Practice;inference from evidence; data and annotation quality
• Abstracts on topics outside the above will also be considered for publication

Committees

Scientific Committee

• Li Jin, Fudan University, China
• Monica Munoz-Torres, ISB Executive Committee, USA
• Zhang Zhang, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Qianqing, Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
• Guoping Zhao, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Jingchu Luo, Peking University, China
• Weimin Zhu, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
• Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA
• Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
• Pascale Gaudet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
• Takashi Gojobori, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Robin Haw, Reactome/Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada 
• Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,UK
• Claire O'Donovan, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
• Cathy Wu, University of Delaware, USA
• Peng Yu, Texas A&M University, USA
• Zhiyong Lu, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
• Kun Huang, Indiana university, USA

Organizing committee

• Lei Liu, Fudan University, China
• Yixue Li, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, China
• Zhang Zhang, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Jingfa Xiao, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Ping Xu, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
• Jiao Li, Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
• Lei Wang, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, China
• Dong Li, Beijing Proteome Research Center, China
• Hui Lv, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Hongye Sun, WuXi Apptec Co., Ltd. China
• Weimin Zhu, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
• Zhiyong Lu，National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
• Weidong Tian，School of Life Science, Fudan University, China
• Zhong Yang, School of Life Science, Fudan University, China

Venue

The conference will be held in Crowne Plaza, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to biocuration2018@126.com