Biomarker World Congress 2009

Version 1 of the FlyReactome Knowledgebase has been released and is accessible at http://fly.reactome.org.

 FlyReactome (Mark Williams and Michael Ashburner at the Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Cambridge), developed in collaboration with the Reactome Knowledgebase group (www.reactome.org), covers Drosophila melanogaster signalling processes. The information in FlyReactome is provided by expert biological researchers and edited and maintained by the FlyReactome staff. New material is peer-reviewed and revised as necessary before publication to the web. FlyReactome entries are linked to corresponding ones in FlyBase, UniProt, KEGG (Compound), ChEBI, PubMed and Gene Ontology (GO).

The web interface allows users to view the curated annotations of the following signalling pathways: Wingless, JAK/STAT, Imd, Toll, and Hedgehog.

Systems Biology symposium announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

Systems Biology: Integrative, Comparative, and Multi-Scale Modeling
June 11-14, 2009
The 18th Annual Growth Factor and Signal Transduction Conference
http://www.bb.iastate.edu/~gfst/phomepg.html

PROGRAM:  Systems Biology is an exciting, emerging discipline at the interface of biological and informational sciences. Over the past several decades, biologists have been accumulating detailed knowledge of the building blocks of biological systems e.g., DNA, RNA, genes, proteins, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and ecologies. Genomics has provided us with an enormous collection of molecular parts. Anatomical, physiological, molecular, cellular, and structural approaches to biology have begun to transform our understanding of how these specific parts of living things function. However, biological systems are more than simply a collection of molecules, cells, or organs. We need to understand how these parts work together to form dynamic functional units so that we can precisely describe, model, and simulate biological systems.