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volume 6, issue 2

President’s Letter

Register for ISMB 2003

ISCB Board Nominations

ISMB 2003

Jim Kent

David Sankoff

Best Paper Award by SGI

ISMB 2003 Committees

Sydney Brenner

ISMB 2004

ISMB 2006

Affiliated Conferences

ISCB Staff Introduction

Affiliated Regional Groups

Events and Opportunities

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Events and Opportunities of Interest
A more thorough description of events is available here.

DIMACS Special Focus on Computational Molecular Biology
DATE: September 2000-August 2003
URL: dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/index-compmolecbiol.html


3rd Annual RECOMB satellite meeting on DNA Sequencing Technologies and Computation
DATE: May 17-19, 2003
LOCATION: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
URL: recomb-satellite.stanford.edu


Bioinformatics 2003
DATE: May 22-24, 2003
LOCATION: Helsinki, FINLAND
URL: bioinf.uta.fi/bio2003/



Hawaii International Conference on Statistics
DATE: June 5-8, 2003
LOCATION: Honolulu, Oahu, USA
URL: www.hicstatistics.org/cfp_stats.htm


CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 6, 2003
URL: www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD03/


Frontiers in Bioinformatics 2003
DATE: June 6-8, 2003
LOCATION: Buffalo, New York, USA
URL: www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu/current_buffalo/frontiers.html



CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 15, 2003
URL: sierra.ecs.csus.edu:8080/



Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny

DATE: June 16-19, 2003
LOCATION: Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, FRANCE
URL: www.ihp.jussieu.fr/mep/



SHORT COURSE: Bioinformatics: Key to a New Biology
DATE: June 19-20, 2003
LOCATION: Berkeley, California, USA
URL: www.unex.berkeley.edu/eng/sum/336727.html


WORKSHOP: Science and Social Responsibility
DATE: June 20-23, 2003
LOCATION: Garrison, New York, USA
CONTACT: Callahan@thehastingscenter.org



2003 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '03)
DATE: June 23-26, 2003
LOCATION: Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
URL: metmbs.sdsu.edu/



BioMED 2003
DATE: June 25-27, 2003
LOCATION: Salzburg, AUSTRIA
URL: www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/salzburg/biomed.htm




CALL FOR PAPERS: Theoretical Computer Science Special Issue on Pattern Discovery in the Post Genome
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 30, 2003
URL: www.dimi.uniud.it/labs/bioinformatics/downloads/callForPapersTCS2003.html

International Conference on Computer Science and Its Applications (ICCSA-2003)
DATE: July 1-2, 2003
LOCATION: San Diego, California, USA
URL: www.useducationservice.com/conference/callforpaper.htm



Genetics XIX International Congress of Genetics Gemones: The Linkage to Life
DATE: July 6-12, 2003
LOCATION: Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
URL: www.geneticscongress2003.com/index.php



15th Edition Lipari Summer School

DATE: July 13-26, 2003
LOCATION: Lipari, ITALY
URL: lipari.cs.unict.it



15th John Innes Symposium: Structural Challenges in the Post-Genomic Era
DATE: July 15-18, 2003
LOCATION: Norwich, UK
URL: www.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/events/symposium/


BioThailand 2003
DATE: July 17-20, 2003
LOCATION: Bangkok, THAILAND
URL:
biothailand2003.biotec.or.th

Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (MCCMB'03)
DATE: July 22-25, 2003
LOCATION: Moscow, RUSSIA
URL: mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2003/



CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issues of the Informs Journal on Computing: Computational Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 1, 2003
LOCATION: Lipari, ITALY
URL: joc.pubs.informs.org/CallSpecialIssueCompBio.html


Symposium Integrative Bioinformatics

DATE: August 4-5, 2003
LOCATION: Bielefeld, GERMANY
URL: cweb.uni-bielefeld.de/agbi/home/index.html?id=142


COURSE: Techniques in Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics
DATE: August 4-8, 2003
LOCATION: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
URL: www.btci.org/courses/intermediate/tbcg03.html


IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference
DATE: August 11-14, 2003
LOCATION: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
URL: conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics/


COURSE: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Gene Expression Data
DATE: August 11-15, 2003
LOCATION: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
URL: www.btci.org/courses/intermediate/caaged03.html



12th International Congress of Radiation Research
DATE: August 17-22, 2003
LOCATION: Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
URL: www.icrr2003.org/


Gordon Research Conference on Bioinformatics 2003: From Inference to Predictive Models

DATE: August 24-29, 2003
LOCATION: Queen's College, Oxford, UK
URL: www.grc.org/programs/2003/bioinf.htm


Third International Summer School on Computational Biology (ISSCB 2003)
DATE: August 31-September 5, 2003
LOCATION: Warsaw, POLAND
URL: www.mimuw.edu.pl/isscb03/


7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2003)
DATE: September 14-17, 2003
LOCATION: Dortmund, GERMANY
URL: www.ecal2003.org


2003 IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing
DATE: September 15-17, 2003
LOCATION: Toulouse, FRANCE
URL: isp.imm.dtu.dk/nnsp2003/



WABI 2003: 3rd Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
DATE: September 15-20, 2003
LOCATION: Budapest, HUNGARY
URL: wabi.biomath.mssm.edu/


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ECCB Satellite Meeting: Modeling and Simulation of Biological Regulatory Processes
DATE: October 1, 2003
LOCATION: Paris, FRANCE
URL: www.inra.fr/eccb2003/satellite2.html


6th Annual Conference on Computational Genomics
DATE: October 8-11, 2003
LOCATION: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
URL: www.jax.org/courses/tigr03.html


German Conference on Bioinformatics
DATE: October 12-14, 2003
LOCATION: Neuherberg, GERMANY
URL: www.gcb03.de


Atlanta Bioinformtics Conference

DATE: November 13-16, 2003
LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
URL: opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/conference/



Hawaii International Conference on Sciences
DATE: January 15-18, 2004
LOCATION: Honolulu, Oahu, USA
URL: www.hicss.hawaii.edu/


2nd Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2004)
DATE: January 18-22, 2004
LOCATION: Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND
URL:
www.fit.qut.edu.au/~chenp/APBC2004


SAC 2004 -19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Bioinformatics Track

DATE: March 14-17, 2004
LOCATION: Nicosia, CYPRUS
URL: www.cs.iupui.edu/~bioin/

 

ISCB Affiliated Conferences

ISMB 2003
$80USD Discount for Regular ISCB members; $45USD Discount for Student/Postdoc Members
DATE: June 29-July 3, 2003
LOCATION: Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
URL: www.iscb.org/ismb2003/index.shtml



InCOB 2003

DATE: September 8-10, 2003
LOCATION: Penang, MALAYSIA
URL: cgat.ukm.my/incob/

ECCB 2003
DATE: September 27-30, 2003
LOCATION: Paris, FRANCE
URL: www.inra.fr/eccb2003/


PSB 2004
$100USD Discount for ISCB Members
DATE: January 6-10, 2004
LOCATION: Big Island of Hawaii, USA
URL: psb.stanford.edu/


ISMB/ECCB 2004 (a joint meeting in conjunction with GPCVIII)
DATE: August 1-5, 2004
LOCATION: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
URL: www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2004/


RECOMB 2004
DATE: March 27-31, 2004
LOCATION: San Diego, California, USA
URL: recomb04.sdsc.edu


ISMB 2006
Date: August 4-11, 2006
Location: Fortaleza, Ceara, BRAZIL


ISCB members receive a US $300 discount when they register for the
following three events:


Microarray Analysis, Visualization, and Integration
DATE: May 20-22, 2003
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
URL: www.marcusevans.com/EVENTS/Life_Science_CFEventinfo.asp?RecID=7349


Knowledge Management for Pharmaceutical R&D
DATE: June 3-5, 2003
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
URL: www.marcusevans.com/EVENTS/Life_Science_CFEventinfo.asp?RecID=7318


Executive IT Life Science Forum
DATE: June 4-5, 2003
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
URL: www.marcusevans.com/EVENTS/Life_Science_CFEventinfo.asp?RecID=7332


 

Scholarship offer for ISCB members

The Stanford University Biomedical Informatics Training Program and Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) will award one ISCB member a scholarship to attend Bioinformatics: Methods and Techniques - a three-day, intensive survey of Bioinformatics. The scholarship will cover the cost of course tuition but not expenses related to travel or accommodations. The scholarship has a value of $2595 USD and ISCB memberships must be paid for year 2003 to qualify to win. Application deadline is May 23, 2003. Apply at proed.stanford.edu/?bioinformatics_iscb-scholarship

ADDITIONAL ITEMS

Models of Infectious Diseases RFA

ABOUT: NIGMS has issued a request for applications for pilot research projects and database development for a new initiative, Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS). MIDAS will consist of a centralized database and a network of multidisciplinary scientists conducting computational and mathematical research to improve the ability to detect, control, and prevent emerging infectious diseases caused by naturally occurring or intentionally released pathogens, including those relevant to biodefense. The request for applications is at grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-03-008.html


American Heart Association (AHA)
ABOUT: The AHA supports research activities broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke, as well as basic science, clinical, bioengineering/biotechnology and public health problems. National Research Programs are offered bi-annually. Application deadline: July 15, 2003. Information and forms are available at my.americanheart.org/portal/professional/research


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Bioinformatics India
URL: www.bioinformaticscentre.org/journal/
ABOUT: In an attempt to fill vacuum created by lack of comprehensive information on bioinformatics development s in India, the Bioinformatics Institute of India is launching first of its kind of journal dedicated solely to bioinformatics. BII is providing the platform for expression and is calling for research papers/review articles news clips to be published in this quarterly journal.


Forthcoming Titles from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press
URL: www.crcpress.com
ABOUT: Order the following titles online and receive a 10% discount—use discount code CHB20XXXX when ordering. Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data, Terry Speed; Data Analysis Tools for DNA Microarrays, Sorin Draghici; Statistical Genomics and Bioinformatics, Second Edition, Ben Hui Liu.


NSF, Science Journal Announce Science Visualization Contest
ABOUT: The National Science Foundation and the journal Science are now accepting entries for the inaugural 2003 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. This new national contest will recognize outstanding achievement by scientists, engineers, and visual information practitioners in the use of visual media to promote understanding of research results. Contest rules and entry submission instructions are available on the Web at www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/sevc/.


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (SAGMB)
URL: www.bepress.com/sagmb
ABOUT: SAGMB publishes significant research on the application of statistical ideas to problems arising from computational biology. The focus of the papers should be on the relevant statistical issues but should contain a succinct description of the relevant biological problem being considered. The range of topics is wide and will include topics such as linkage mapping, association studies, gene finding and sequence alignment, protein structure prediction, design and analysis of microarray data, molecular evolution and phylogenetic trees, DNA topology, and data base search strategies.


Free CD 'Automation in Bioscience' Now Available
URL: www.modernsciences.com/
ABOUT: A free CD 'Automation in Bioscience' is now available. Microbiological calculations and growth curve charts are shown directly in MS Excel. Almost all microbiology related fields are covered.


Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)
URL: www.worldscinet.com/jbcb/jbcb.shtml
ABOUT: The first issue is FREE online at: www.worldscinet.com/jbcb/jbcb.shtml. If you would like to receive a FREE printed copy for review, please complete the form at: www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/printed_copy.cgi?jbcb.
CONTACT: limsoon@lit.a-star.edu.sg, mli@cs.ucsb.edu, jwooley@sdsc.edu


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Intl. Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
URL: www.worldscinet.com/ijcis/mkt/guidelines.shtml
ABOUT: This issue focuses is Data Management and Modeling Support in Bioinformatics. Papers describing state-of-the research including, but not limited to, the following areas are solicited: Database integration and interoperability; Information Modeling, metadata and data sharing; Multidatabase indexing and multidatabase queries; Data semantic and control; Ontology design; Knowledge discovery and datamining; Algorithms for large scale and distributed biological databases



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