The First International Biocurator Meeting to be held on December 8-11, 2005 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacifice Grove, CA.

该奖项为将于2005年12月8日至11日在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议场地举行的第一届国际生物策展人会议（IBCM）提供部分支持。本次会议的总体目标是汇集世界各地的科学家，他们创建和维护对现代生物医学和生物学研究至关重要的生物数据库的内容。大多数观众将是数据库策展人和策展人助理。数据库管理员通常是拥有博士学位的科学家。在生物学或相关领域，通常具有几年的博士后研究经验。策展人助理通常是研究生本科生，或最近毕业的学士学位。或文学硕士在生物学或相关领域。我们还希望项目负责人（教授，项目经理，首席科学家），博士后研究人员，研究生以及数据库和软件开发人员的参与。会议将持续两天半，包括白天的口头会议和晚上的海报会议，涵盖四个主要主题：文献策展和收集，基因组序列注释和比较基因组学，本体论发展和大规模功能基因组学数据的策展。口头会议将包括三个小时的全体讲座和20个较短的会谈（每个20或30分钟）。12个较短的演讲将由受邀演讲者进行，其余的将从提交的摘要中选出。每天结束时将有一个主持人讨论会。海报会议将致力于策展工具，技术和质量控制的发展，也将包括信息资源的演示。本次会议的目标是促进生物管理者社区内的沟通，以提高这些数据库资源的质量，并促进对生物管理作为一种职业的认可。随着生物信息的数量呈指数级增长，数据库在保持整个国际研究界组织有序和易于访问方面的重要性也在增加。因此，虽然这次会议的直接听众目前可能有几百人，但这次会议对改善生物数据的管理和整合的影响影响将波及整个国际生物医学和生物研究界。

This award provides partial support for the first International BioCurator Meeting (IBCM), to be held on December 8-11, 2005 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA. The overall objective of this conference is to bring together the diverse group of scientists worldwide who create and maintain the content of the biological databases so vital to modern biomedical and biological research. The majority of the audience will be database curators and curator assistants. Database curators are typically scientists with Ph.D. in biology or a related field, often with some years of post-doctoral research experience. Curator assistants are typically graduate undergraduate students, or recent graduates with a B.A. or M.A. in biology or a related field. We also expect participation by projects heads (professors, project managers, lead scientists), postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and database and software developers. The conference will convene over a period of two and a half days and will consist of daytime oral sessions and evening poster sessions covering four major topics: literature curation and collection, genome sequence annotation and comparative genomics, ontology development, and curation of large-scale functional genomics data. Oral sessions will include three hour-long plenary lectures and 20 shorter talks (20 or 30 minutes each). Twelve of the shorter talks will be given by invited speakers, and the remainder will be chosen from the abstracts submitted. There will be a moderated discussion session at the end of each day. The poster sessions will be dedicated to developments in curation tools, techniques, and quality control, and will also include demonstrations of informatics resources. The objectives for this meeting are to stimulate communication within the biocurator community in order to enhance the quality of these database resources, and to promote the recognition of biological curation as a profession. As the sheer volume of biological information increases exponentially, the importance of databases in keeping it organized and easily accessible to the entire international research community also increases. Thus although the direct audience for this meeting may be currently composed of several hundred people, the implications of this meeting for improved curation and integration of biological data reach to the entire international biomedical and biological research community.