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LINK-AGE/LIFESPAN Workshop on "Data Handling for Biogerontology Research"
29-30 April 2010
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
This
two-day workshop will be hosted by Newcastle University's Centre for
Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition to address a range
of issues around the curation and management of the large volumes of
data that are being generated in a range of projects on the biology of
ageing. Many of these issues are generic across the life sciences.
The
workshop (see below for Aims and Scope) will provide presentations,
demonstrations, and hands-on tutorials for the data handling
applications and integrated data analysis systems developed as part of
CISBAN. There will also be opportunities for presentations from
speakers from other groups.
Accommodation (maximum two nights) and meals will be paid by the organisers. Participants are expected to pay their own travel.
To
register for the workshop please email Allyson Lister
(a.l.lister@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:a.l.lister@ncl.ac.uk>). There is no
deadline but places are limited in number and will be allocated on a
first-come-first accepted basis.
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Description of the Workshop Aims and Scope
Vast
quantities of heterogeneous data are being produced within the life
sciences. There is a need to integrate these diverse datasets to build
a more systems-level view of the organisms under study. The datasets
must also be archived, curated with appropriate metadata in
widely-accepted formats, and made available in a suitable form for
subsequent analysis, integration, and sharing.
There is an
urgent need to provide tools and resources that allow the digital
curation and management of scientific data in a fashion amenable to
standardisation and to facilitate data sharing and discovery of
knowledge. It is desirable that this data storage and annotation
process is implemented as early as possible in the data management
cycle to prevent data loss and ensure traceability throughout.
This
2-day workshop will provide presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on
tutorials for the data handling applications and integrated data
analysis systems developed as part of CISBAN. There will also be
presentations from invited speakers from outside CISBAN. The CISBAN
projects covered during this workshop can be used by other research
groups who share the same goals of data archiving and sharing. We will
be covering CISBAN's data archiving and sharing system (SyMBA),
database of integrated probabilistic networks (CID), database of
high-throughput robotic experiments (ROD), and application for
annotating systems biology models with biological information (Saint).
We will also discuss why and how data sharing and common data formats
are important for all research groups.
Ageing event - Brussels March 3-5 2010 and April 19- 20 2010
A report will be available soon.