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volume 6, issue 3

President’s Letter

ISMB 2003

ISMB/ECCB 2004

SGI Awards

Sponsorship Opportunities

Rocky 1

Elections

ISCB Staff Introduction

Strategic Planning

Government Relations

Special Interest Groups

OUP

RECOMB 2003

PSB 2004

Book Review

Website

Events and Opportunities

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


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


3rd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
DATE: August 27, 2003
LOCATION: Washington D.C., US
URL: www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD03



The Mathematics of Bioinformatics
DATE: August 27-29, 2003
LOCATION: Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
URL: www.crm.umontreal.ca/Bio2003/


Third International Summer School on Computational Biology (ISSCB 2003)

DATE: August 31-September 5, 2003
LOCATION: Warsaw, POLAND
URL: www.mimuw.edu.pl/isscb03/


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


3rd Annual Development, Evaluation, & Dissemination of Methods for the Analysis of Gene Expression by Microarrays
DATE: September 13-17, 2003
LOCATION: New Paltz, New York, USA
URL: www.soph.uab.edu/statgenetics/Microarray/webnew/mrcnAnnualRetreat.asp


7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2003)

DATE: September 14-17, 2003
LOCATION: Dortmund, GERMANY
URL: www.ecal2003.org


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


2003 IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing
DATE: September 17-19, 2003
LOCATION: Toulouse, FRANCE
URL: isp.imm.dtu.dk/nnsp2003/


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


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


15th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003)
DATE: November 3-5, 2003
LOCATION: Sacramento, California, USA
URL: sierra.ecs.csus.edu:8080/



BISTIC Symposium 2003
DATE: November 6-7, 2003
LOCATION: Bethesda, Maryland, USA
URL: www.bisti.nih.gov/2003meeting/



Atlanta Bioinformtics Conference

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


6th International Meeting On Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Complex Genome Analysis (SNP2003)
DATE: November 20-23, 2003
LOCATION: Chantilly, Virginia, USA
URL: snp2003.nci.nih.gov/snp2003/home.cfm


II WOB 2003 - Second Brazilian Workshop on Bioinformatics
DATE: December 3-5, 2003
LOCATION: Macaé, RJ, BRAZIL
URL: wob2003.inf.puc-rio.br


Rocky 1
DATE: December 5-7, 2003
LOCATION: Aspen, Colorado, USA
URL: www.iscb.org/rocky1


PSB 2004
DATE: January 6-January 10, 2004
LOCATION: Big Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA
URL: psb.stanford.edu/


Bioinformatics Workshop Paper Presentation Competition
DATE: January 10-January 14, 2004
LOCATION: San Diego, California, USA
URL: www.intl-pag.org/


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

BIFI 2004
DATE: February 11-13, 2004
LOCATION: Zaragoza, SPAIN
URL: bifi.unizar.es/zar2004/



Proteomics: Sequence, Structure, Function
DATE: March 8-June 11, 2004
LOCATION: Los Angeles, California, USA
URL: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/prot2004



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

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


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


ISMB/ECCB 2004 (in conjunction with GPCVIII)
DATE: July 31-August 5, 2004
LOCATION: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
URL: www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2004/


ISMB 2005
DATE: TBD
LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA


ISMB 2006

DATE: August 4-11, 2006
LOCATION: Ceara, Fortaleza, BRAZIL

 

ADDITIONAL ITEMS


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.



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.


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