The 1st Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting (January 15-18, 2017)


SAB Members

Prof. Vladimir Bajic

Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Saudi Arabia

Dr. Guy Cochrane

Head of European Nucleotide Archive
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
United Kingdom

Dr. Frank Eisenhaber

Executive Director, Bioinformatics Institute
Singapore

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Prof. Takashi Gojobori

Former Vice-Director and Professor of National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Distinguished Professor of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

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Prof. Jingchu Luo

China Node Manager of the European Molecular Biology Network
Peking University
China

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Dr. Ilene Mizrachi

GenBank Coordinator
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
United States

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Prof. Weimin Zhu

Professor of Data Science
National Center for Protein Sciences
China


Agenda

January 15 (Sunday): Pick-up & Registration
January 16 (Monday): SAB Meeting, Conference room at the 2nd floor, BIG, CAS
09:00 - 12:00 Session 1: Center's Database Resources
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch and Group Photo
13:30 - 17:00 Session 2: Development Strategies and Directions
17:00 - 18:00 Free Time and Transfer
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
January 17 (Tuesday): SAB Invited Talks, Conference Hall at the 1st floor, BIG, CAS
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
  • Welcome Address
  • Introduction of SAB Members
09:30 - 10:10 Big data analyses of comparative marine metagenomics
Takashi Gojobori, Former Vice-Director and Professor of National Institute of Genetics and Distinguished Professor of KAUST
10:10 - 10:40 Tea & Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20 Sequence archives at the NCBI
Ilene Mizrachi, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), United States
11:20 - 12:00 China's NCBI - a dream?
Jingchu Luo, Peking University, China
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and Institution Tour
14:00 - 14:40 Biomolecular mechanism discovery with computational biology
Frank Eisenhaber, Executive Director of Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
14:40 - 15:20 Archiving the world’s sequence data: human and technical aspects
Guy Cochrane, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), United Kingdom
15:20 - 15:40 Tea & Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:20 Text- and Knowledge-Mining of Big Biomedical Data
Vladimir Bajic, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
16:20 - 17:00 What we do with omics big data?
Weimin Zhu, National Center for Protein Sciences, China
17:00 - 18:00 Free Time and Transfer
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
January 18 (Wednesday): SAB Meeting, Conference room at the 2nd floor, BIG, CAS
09:00 - 12:00 Session 3: Open Discussion
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

Location

Hotel