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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/
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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
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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% discountuse
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
To recommend a conference for inclusion in the ISCB Newsletter,
please write to admin@iscb.org.
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