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AWARDS: Best of Show Awards, Best Practices Awards and 2014 Benjamin Franklin Award  @ BioIT World, April 29 – May 1, 2014 Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA

Reorter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

 

Best of Show Awards

The Best of Show Awards offer exhibitors an opportunity to distinguish their products from the competition. Judged by a team of leading industry experts and Bio-IT World editors, this award identifies exceptional innovation in technologies used by life science professionals today. Judging and the announcement of winners is conducted live in the Exhibit Hall. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 30 at 5:30pm. The deadline for product submissions is February 21, 2014. To learn more about this program, contact Ryan Kirrane at 781-972-1354 or email rkirrane@healthtech.com.

2014 WINNER(s) are announced in Real Time

2014 – Five categories

1. Clinical ad Health IT – Astazeneca with Tessella – Real Time Analytics for Clinical Trial (RTACT) – engine for innovations

2. Research and Drug Discovery: U-bioPRED with the TranSMART Foundation – Open Source  – Emperial College – Biomarkers for Asthma,  hospitals, 340 universities, 34 Pharmas

3. Informatics: Pistoia Alliance – HELM – Pfizer, released data for HELM Project

4. Knowledge Management Finalists: GENENTECH – Genentech Cell Line Resource

5. IT Infrastructure/HPC Winner:

Baylor College of Medicine with DNAnexus –

 

2014 Judges’Prize – UK for Patient Data Intgration

2014 Editors’ Choice Award: Mount Sinai – Rethinking Type 2 Diabetes through Data Informatics

2014 Benjamin Franklin Award

The Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences is a humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually by the Bioinformatics Organization to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences. Nominations are now being accepted!

The winner will be announced in the Ampitheater at 9:00am on Wednesday, April 30 during the Plenary Keynote and Awards Program, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 | 8:00 – 9:45 AM.

Full details including previous laureates and entry forms are available at www.bioinformatics.org/franklin.

2014 WINNER is:

Helen Berman, Ph.D.

Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University;

Founding Member, Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB); Director, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics PDB (RCSB PDB)

Helen: ACCEPTANCE AWARD SPEECH

Proteins: Synthesis, enzymes, Health & Disease

PDB depositors: 850 new entries / month, 468 Miliions downloads & views, PDB Access

History of sharing the databank on protein

J.D. Bernl – 1944 crystalied Pepsin with Dorothy Hodgkin Oxford, manyWomen Distingushed

1960 – Early structure of proteins: Myoglobin, hemoglobin

1970

1980

1990

2000  Ribosomes

2010s: macromolecule machines

• Science of protein structure
• Technology: electromicroscopy,  Structure Genomics – data driven science Hybrid methods at Present for 3D structure identification

COMMUNITY ATTITUDE –  1971 PDB archive established at Cold Spring Harbor, Walter Hamilton, petition to have an Open DB of Protein, Brookhaven Labs, to be shared with UK, Nature New Biology: Seven Structures to the DB

1982 – AIDs epidemic – NIH – requested data to be Open, community set its own rules on data organization Fred Richards, Yale, requested on moral ground, DB to be Open.

1993 – mandatory to sahre dat linked to publication, no Journal will accet  an article id data was not in PDB.

1996 – dictionary put together

2008: experimental data madatory to be put in PDB, Validation

2011: PDBx  definition of X-Ray, NMR, and 3DEM, small-angle Scattering

Collaboration with to enable: self storage, structure based drug design

SCIENCE in ther IMPORTANT to be put there, IT evolved, changes to data

global organization collaboration

Communities to work together

L.D>Bernal – SOcial function of Science, 1939

Elenor Ostrom 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics – Community collaboration by rules