The Second International Meeting on Microarray Data
Standards, Annotations, Ontologies and Databases
May 25 - 27, 2000, DKFZ and EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
See http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray/MGED/index.html
Registration now open
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Preliminary programme:
Wednesday, 24 May 2000 - venue DKFZ
Registration begins in the evening
Thursday, 25 May 2000 - venue DKFZ
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:15 Opening
Keynote address (Mike Eisen)
Working group reports and aims:
i. Microarray data representation and
annotation standards (Alvis Brazma, EMBL-EBI)
ii. Microarray data representation in XML
(Paul Spellman, Berkeley)
11:15-11:45 Coffee
11:45-13:00 Working group reports and aims continued:
iii. Ontologies for microarray experiment
description (Mike Bittner, NHGRI)
iv. Normalisation, quality control and
cross-platform comparison (Frank
Holstege, UMC-Utrecht)
v. Data queries and mining (Martin Vingron, DKFZ)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Ongoing database projects
o GEO (Alex Lash, NCBI)
o GeneX (Harry Mangalam, NCGR)
o Stanford (Mike Cherry, Stanford)
o DKFZ database (Kurt Fellenberg, DKFZ)
15:45-16:05 Coffee
16:05-17:20 Ongoing database projects (continued)
o DDBJ activity on microarray databases
(Yoshio Tateno, DDBJ)
o Relational implementation of
ArrayExpress (David Hancock, University of Manchester)
o Max Planck (Steffen Schulze-Kremer)
o ChipDB (Peter Young, MIT/Whitehead
o RAD (Chris Stoeckert, University of Pennsylvania)
o ArrayExpress (EMBL-EBI)
17:20-17:40 Coffee
17:40-19:00 Databases (companies)
o Incyte (Rick Johnson)
o Gene Logic (Victor Markowitz)
o Affymetrix
o more to be announced
Friday, 26 May 2000 - venue DKFZ
09:00-10:15 Plenary session
o OMG/LSR Overview and the new Gene
Expression RFP (Scott Markel, NetGenics)
o Data quality and normalisation issues
(Roger Bumgarner, University of Washington, Seattle)
o Integrating gene expression and genome
annotation (Terry Gaasterland,
Rockefeller University)
o Quality control steps for standardisation (Wilhelm Ansorge, EMBL)
o more to be announced
10:15-10:35 Coffee
10:35-13:00 Working groups meet
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Poster session
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-19:00 Working groups meet
Saturday, 27 May 200 - venue EMBL
09:00-09:50 Keynote talk (Anne-Marie Poustka, DKFZ)
09:50-10:10 Coffee
10:10-13:00 Working groups meet
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Final Plenary session - conclusions from the
working groups
