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管理员会议（IBCM）提供了部分支持。本次会议的总体目标是将世界各地创建和维护生物数据库内容的不同科学家聚集在一起，这些数据库对现代生物医学和生物学研究至关重要。大多数听众将是数据库管理员和管理员助理。数据库管理员通常是具有生物学或相关领域博士学位的科学家，通常具有几年的博士后研究经验。馆长助理通常是本科研究生，或刚毕业的生物学或相关领域的文学士或硕士。我们也期待项目负责人（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。会议将在两天半的时间内召开，将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：文献整理和收集，基因组序列注释和比较基因组学，本体开发和大规模功能基因组学数据的整理。口头会议将包括三个小时的全体演讲和20个较短的演讲（每次20或30分钟）。其中12个较短的演讲将由邀请的演讲者进行，其余的将从提交的摘要中选择。在每天结束的时候，会有一个适度的讨论环节。海报会议将致力于策展工具、技术和质量控制的发展，还将包括信息学资源的演示。本次会议的目的是促进生物策展人社区内部的交流，以提高这些数据库资源的质量，并促进对生物策展作为一种职业的认可。随着生物信息的绝对数量呈指数级增长，数据库在保持信息的组织和便于整个国际研究界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，但这次会议对改进生物数据的管理和整合的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.