1. EMBRACE Workshop Appled Gene Ontology ITB – CNR Bari, Italy 7. – 9. November 2007 Domenica D’Elia, Giulia De Sario, Andreas Gisel, Cecilia Saccone, Angelica Tulipano

2. Institute of Biomedical Technologies (ITB) – Bari, CNR The main research projects of ITB are focused on: SPECIALIZED DATABASES ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE FOR GENOME ANALYSIS MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY AND DNA BARCODE COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND EVOLUTION OF GENE FAMILIES GRID RESEARCH IDENTIFICATION OF P53 GENE FAMILY DIRECT TARGET GENES BY IN SILICO AND MICROARRAY APPROACHES

3. EMBRACE European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education Work packages Content Integration Integration of the major databases such as EMBL, SwissProt, TrEMBL, PDB, ArrayExpress, GO, GOA and specific DBs developed by members Tool Integration Integration of bioinformatics tools such as BLAST, MultiBLAST, EMBOSS, and specific tools provided from the community Technology assessment and adoption Assessing the middleware solutions available and the IT trends such as Grid Computing Test-problems In close collaboration with experimental laboratories to test and prove the Network Outreach The aim is to enable bioinformatics research through better interoperability of servers, database, and services. Network of Excellence

4. Wednesday 7. November 2007 Introduction Cecilia Saccone ITB-CNR, Bari, Italy Ontology: An Introduction Claudia d'Amato Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Italy Gene Ontology Midori Harris EBI, Hinxton, GB GOA: Looking after GO annotations Emily Dimmer EBI, Hinxton, GB (UniProt GOA project) Insight into GO and GOA Andreas Gisel ITB-CNR Bari, Italy GO Browsers: AmiGO Erika Feltrin CRIBI, University of Padova, Italy Thursday 8. November 2007 Gene Analogue Finder Angelica Tulipano / Giulia De Sario INFN Bari, Italy / ITB-CNR Bari, Italy GO Annotation tools: GoPubMed Andreas Doms Biotech TU Dresden, Germany GO Microarray tools: GOToolBox David Martin Genome bioinformatics lab, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain Friday 9. November 2007 GO Other tools: Blast2GO Ana Conesa Bioinformatics Department,Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain Collaborative tagging for GO Domenico Gendarmi Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Italy Final Discussion Final programme