Events
and Opportunities of Interest
A more thorough description of events
is available here.
Center
for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
(DIMACS) Special Focus on Computational Molecular Biology
DATES: September 2000-August 2003
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Workshop on Complexity in Biosystems: Innovative Approaches
at the Interface of Experimental and Computational Modeling:
April 8-10, 2002; DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway,
New Jersey; URL: dimacs.rutgers.edu/
Workshops/Complexity
DIACS-National Chiao Tung University Conference on
the Interconnections Among Codes, Designs, Graphs and Molecular
Biology: May 24-26, 2002; National Center of Theoretical Science,
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; URL: dimacs.rutgers.edu/
Workshops/Chiaotung
Protein Domains: Identification, Classification and
Evolution Dates: February 27-28, 2003; DIMACS Center, Rutgers
University, Piscataway, New Jersey
URL: dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/index-compmolecbiol.html
CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS: Methods in Functional Genomics (A Special
Issue of Machine Learning Journal)
DEADLINE: May 15, 2002
URL: www.genomethods.org/mlj
CONTACT: Paola Sebastiani (sebas@math.umass.edu)
ABOUT: Machine Learning Journal invites submissions to a Special
Issue devoted to machine learning advances in functional genomics.
The special issue seeks contributions of significant methodological
content and high potential impact on the functional genomics
research community.
Second
Annual RECOMB Satellite meeting on DNA Sequencing and Characterization
DATE: May 18-19, 2002
LOCATION: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
URL: robotics.stanford.edu/~serafim/ra2002/ra2002.htm
ABOUT: Genome sequencing has flourished the past several years,
with genomes such as the C.elegans, D.melanogaster, the human,
mouse, and rat either complete, or currently being sequenced
and assembled. Computational assembly has been an essential
part of sequencing since the conception of the sequencing
technology. Recent sequencing achievements have become possible
due to advances in lab techniques, computational power, and
algorithms and software. This meeting will bring together
many people working on algorithms and systems for genome-scale
sequencing and analysis.
SHORT
COURSE: Bioinformatics: Methods and Techniques
DATE: June 18-20, 2002
LOCATION: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
URL: proed.stanford.edu/?bioinformatics_iscb
ABOUT: An introduction to fundamental problems in genomics
and bioinformatics. Topics include DNA and protein sequence
and structure analysis, structure prediction and the impact
of new technologies such as mRNA expression arrays and proteomics
techniques. The URL leads to an informational video and contains
full course details.
CONTACT: Jody Gladstein, 650-723-9041 (scpd_proed@forsythe.stanford.edu)
Bioinformatics
DATE: June 19-21, 2002
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusettes
URL: www.LifeScienceSolutions.com
ABOUT: Conference synopsis: This information-intensive conference
will bring together the industrys most forward-thinking
computational biologists to examine diverse bioinformatics
strategies and applications. Key components of this event
include open-source industry collaboration and integration,
computational proteomics, post-genomic bioinformatics and
drug discovery. Focused pre-conference tutorials will offer
hands-on experience with leading bioinformatics tools.
CONTACT: Ann Pendleton, 312.894.6418 (conferences@marcusevansch.com)
NETTAB
2002 Second International Workshop on Agents in Bioinformatics
DATE: July 12-14, 2002
LOCATION: Bologna, Italy (Ex scuola Ercolani, Mura Anteo Zamboni,
2b)
URLs: www.nettab.org,
www.nettab.org/2002/progr.html
ABOUT: This workshop aims to bring together researchers working
toward the vision of a genome analysis and annotation using
agents-based systems. NETTAB2002 aims to strengthen the relationships
within the bioinformatics community, to activate cooperation
between bioinformatics and computer science communities, to
collect the latest ideas, achievements and proposals in the
application of agents and multi-agent systems to the bioinformatics
area.
CALL FOR PAPERS, DEADLINE: April 30, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS, TOPICS:
Co-operation between intelligent agents to improve
information retrieval in bioinformatics
Multi-agent systems to support eScientists during their
daily research
Agents applications in bioinformatics
Multi-agent systems that improve the data resources
integration
Bioinfomatics agent-based decision support systems
Information agents that gather, compile and organize
biological knowledge available on Internet
Biological data and knowledge modeling tools
Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics
in Bioinformatics
APPLICATION URL: www.nettab.org/2002/progr.html
The
Third International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome
Regulation and Structure (BGRS2002)
DATE: July 14-20, 2002
LOCATION: Novosibirsk, Russia
URL: www.bionet.nsc.ru/meeting/bgrs2002/index_local.html
ABOUT: BGRS2002 will provide a forum for the accumulation,
analysis, and recognition of genomic regulatory sequences.
Experimental biologists are also encouraged to attendBGRS2002
aims to be a stimulating event to facilitate an application
of computational biology to experimental research.
WABI
2002: 2nd Workshop on Algorithms in BioInformatics
DATE: September: 16-21, 2002
LOCATION: Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome La
Sapienza (Italy)
URL: www.dis.uniroma1.it/%7Ealgo02/wabi02
ABOUT: WABI2002 will cover research in algorithmic work in
bioinformatics and computational biology. The emphasis is
on discrete algorithms that address important problems in
molecular biology, genomics and genetics that are founded
on sound models, computationally efficient, and have been
implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets.
CALL FOR PAPERS, DEADLINE: April 26, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS, TOPICS:
Exact and approximate algorithms for genomics, genetics,
sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment,
molecular evolution, phylogenetics, structure determination
or prediction, gene expression and gene networks, proteomics,
functional genomics, and drug design.
Development of methods, software and dataset repositories
to develop and test such algorithms and their underlying models.
High-performance computing approaches to computationally
hard problems in bioinformatics, particularly optimization
problems.
APPLICATION URL: www.dis.uniroma1.it/%7Ealgo02/wabi02/wabi02-cfp.txt
Invitation
to the 3rd International Conference on Systems Biology
The Logic of Life
DATE: December 13-15, 2002
LOCATION: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SWEDEN
URL: www.ki.se/icsb2002/
ABOUT: ICSB 2002 will feature experimental, computational
and theoretical advances in the rapidly advancing fields of
gene expression acquisition technologies, gene expression
data analysis, functional analysis of biological control systems,
proteinomics, modeling and analysis of kinetic networks, metabolomics,
signal transduction, morphogenesis, and much more.
EVENT
REPORTS
First OReilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference
Built Bioinformatics Bridges
SUMMARY: OReilly and Associates first Bioinformatics
Technology Conference took place January 28-31, 2002. Over
700 scientists, researchers, programmers and bioinformaticians
came together to examine the state of computational biology
and learn from each others study and practice. OReilly
and Associates will post news on future conferences as they
become available on their website: conferences.oreilly.com/biocon
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