INW2 Provisional Program (27 April '99)
Objectives of meeting
- To bring together relevant scientists to address issues of gene family nomenclature.
- Publication of Recommendations/Guidelines for gene family nomenclature.
- Publication of a workshop report
FRIDAY 30th April 1999
2pm Registration & Poster assembly
4pm Sanger Centre Tour Group 1
5pm Sanger Centre Tour Group 2
7.30 pm EVENING BUFFET RECEPTION (sponsored by NATURE GENETICS)
SATURDAY 1st May
8.30am start (Poster area accessible from 8am)
1. Introduction and objectives for INW2
2. Review of INW1
3. Nomenclature Issues in Gene Family Analysis CHAIR: Judith Blake
Hester Wain Gene Families - a nomenclature perspective
Lee F. Kolakowski The G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Families
Marie-Paule Lefranc Nomenclature of the immunoglobulin, T cell receptor and MHC of
human and other vertebrate species: a standardized approach in IMGT.
10.30-11am COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING
David Hewett-Emmett The alpha-carbonic anhydrase gene family: Novel members encoding
evolutionarily conserved "acatalytic" isoforms
Kirill Degtyarenko Bioinorganic motifs vs sequence similarity: Functional diversity in
metalloprotein families
David Lonsdale The Gene Family database, Mendel and Mendel-ESTS:
databases of plant gene families and gene sequences
12.30-2pm LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING
4. Role of nomenclature in database linking and integration
Rolf Apweiler Large-Scale Characterization of Protein Sequences: Future Demands
on Annotation and Nomenclature
Jonathan Hodgkin Naming 20,000 genes in the nematode C. elegans
Donna Maglott LocusLink and RefSeq: NCBI's New Curated Gene-Based Resources
3.30-4pm TEA
Liora Yaar GeneCards and UDB: nomenclature perfect genome tools
Richard G.H Cotton Mutations: Their nomenclature and databases
5. Standardization of gene function/process terms - changing the role of nomenclature
Judy Blake From Functional Names to Naming Functions
Selina Dwight Saccharomyces Genome Database
(Poster area accessible until 7pm)
7.30pm CONFERENCE DINNER
SUNDAY 2nd May
8.30am start (Poster area accessible from 8am)
6. Comparative genomics and homology - role of nomenclature CHAIR: Ian Jackson
Jenny Graves Markers for comparative mapping and comparative painting.
Janan Eppig Comparative mammalian maps: orthologs, homologs, and paralogs
Anne Kwitek-Black The US Rat Genome Project
7. Phenotypes and functions - impact on gene nomenclature
Jean Frezal Nomenclature and the integration of genotypic and phenotypic
information
10.15-10.45am COFFEE & POSTER VIEWING
8 . Organization, co-ordination and authority of nomenclature CHAIR: Sue Povey
Pat Humphrey International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Receptor
Coding System
Daniel W Nebert Current status of the IUBMB-approved nomenclature program for
several gene superfamilies
Julia White The changing role of gene nomenclature committees
Concluding Discussion
1-2pm LUNCH
Group discussions
