How Do I Participate in the TREC Genomics Track?
As described in the Background document
on this site, the Text Retreival
Conference (TREC) is an annual activity of information retrieval
(IR) research sponsored
by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).
In order to participate in the TREC Genomics Track, you must be
registered
as an official participant in TREC. Registration must be renewed
annually.
It is a relatively simple process that costs no money, and the
instructions
for registering for the 2007 track are on the
registration page at the TREC Web site. You must be
registered in TREC to participate
in the Genomics Track and get access to the data being used.
Anyone can join the TREC Genomics Track email list. Registration
in
TREC is not requied, but being on the mailing list does not mean
you are
registered for TREC. To join the email list, send an email to
Bill Hersh, the Track chair.
The Genomics Track follows the general pattern of TREC, which consists
of
an annual cycle, with data distributed in the spring, experiments run
in
the summer, and the results presented at the annual conference in
November.
Last update: February 18, 2007.