__
.
--

.
ASLIB BIOSCIENCES GROUP

Introduction    •News & Events   •Committee Members   •Forum

Aslib Biosciences Group Annual Conference 2003: Research support in the online environment - a biosciences perspective

Innovative technologies and resource initiatives are revolutionizing international research activity in the biosciences, none more so than the UK Research councils e-Science programme. This one day conference will address some of the issues affecting the e-scientist and will include papers on: grid technologies and distributed computing, intellectual property, demystifying genomic resources on the Internet and making sense of research outputs data.

Programme

09.30 Registration & coffee

10.00 Introduction & welcome

10.05 Frank Norman, National Institute for Medical Research. Genomic resources: a taster for information professionals [view PowerPoint]

10.50 Mark Burfoot, Pfizer. Intellectual property and patent searching for biotechnology information [view PowerPoint]

11.35 Ian Rowlands, Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research. The Research Outputs Database - developing an evidence base for biomedical research funding [view PowerPoint]

12.20 Gary Horrocks, Senior Information Specialist, King's College London. COS mapping international research expertise and funding opportunities [view PowerPoint]

12.25 BioMed Central: a new publishing model [view PowerPoint]

12.40 ABG AGM

13.00 Lunch

14.00 BioMed Central: Faculty of 1000 [view PowerPoint]

14.15 Les Grivell, European Molecular Biology Organisation. E-BioSci: creating semantic networks of biological information [view presentation (PDF)]

15.00 Stephanie Marshall, Adept Scientific. Innovations in bibliographic software [view PowerPoint]

15.15 Tea

15.30 Tom Oinn, European Bioinformatics Institute. MyGrid: developing the e-biologist's workbench [view presentation PDF]

16.15 Alan Rector, Manchester University. The Clinical e-Science Framework [view PowerPoint]

--
-