| SIGs
Over
the past 11 years a number of smaller, more specialized
meetings in computational biology have become regularly
associated with the ISMB annual meetings. This year
ISMB 2003 is pleased to have several special interest group
meetings associated with this year's conference.
|
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) |
Friday, June 27
09:00 - 21:00
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 21:00 |
Plenary: Mezzanine M3
Breakout Room 1: Mezzanine M5/M6
Breakout Room 2: Mezzanine M7/M8 |
Corporate
Rate: $ US $150.00
Academic / Government: $ 130.00
Student: $110.00 |
| For
more information regarding the BOSC SIG, click
here |
| Biopathways
|
Friday,
June 27
09:00 - 21:00
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 21:00 |
Plenary:
Mezzanine M4
Breakout Room 1: Plaza P3
Breakout Room 2: Plaza P4 |
Corporate
Rate: $ US $150.00
Academic / Government: $ 130.00
Student: $110.00 |
| For
more information regarding the BioPathways SIG, click
here |
| Text
Mining (BioLINK) |
Friday,
June 27
09:00 - 17:30 |
Mezzanine
- M2 |
Corporate
Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00 |
| For
more information regarding the Text Mining (BioLINK)
SIG, click here |
|
Bio-Ontologies
|
Saturday,
June 28
09:00 - 17:30 |
Mezzanine
M1 |
Corporate
Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00 |
| For
more information regarding the Bio-Ontologies SIG, click
here |
| WEB
03
|
Saturday,
June 28
09:00 - 17:30 |
Mezzanine
M2 |
Corporate
Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00 |
| For
more information regarding the WEB 03 SIG, click
here |
SIG
DESCRIPTIONS
Bioinformatics
Open Source Conference BOSC http://open-bio.org/bosc2003/
The 4th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2003)
is being organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics
Foundation (http://open-bio.org).
The focus of the meeting is on current and emerging open
source informatics tools and toolkits. BOSC provides a forum
for developers, project groups, users and interested parties
to meet personally, exchange ideas and collaborate together.
The morning and afternoon sessions will feature talks from
submitted abstracts. A communal wireless network will be
available and evening BoF sessions willl bring together
project groups and people with specialized interests.
BioPathways
http://www.biopathways.org
The 5th BioPathways meeting will be held on June 27th and
28th, in Brisbane, Australia, as a satellite of ISMB'03. The
meeting is organized by the BioPathways Consortium), an open
forum aimed at fostering computational approaches to the modeling,
reconstruction, analysis and simulation of biological networks.
The
scientific program will include three plenary sessions with
respective focuses on:
-
a systems scale view of regulation,
- the
evolution of molecular pathways
-
representation, integration and exchange of pathway data.
The
latter session is organized in cooperation with the BioPax
initiative (www.biopax.org).
Each plenary session will consist of several long invited
presentations (45'), followed by a panel discussion on the
theme.
To encourage presentation of cutting-edge research and work-in-progress,
we have added a tools and poster session this year. This
new session will consist of mini-presentations (5’)
of relevant tools followed by a session of reviewed posters
in the conference venue. A few selected tools and posters,
deemed of general interest to the community, will be featured
on the BioPathways Consortium’s web site.
Particular
emphasis will be put on approaches along the themes of the
plenary sessions, as well as on research in pathway visualization
and reconstruction, all of which are subjects followed by
the consortium’s workgroups.
Looking forward to seeing you at BioPathways 03,
The
organizing committee : Joanne Luciano, Eric Neumann, Aviv
Regev, Vincent Schächter
Text
Mining (BioLINK)http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/BioLink/
The Special Interest Group on Text Mining (or BioLINK) was
created to address the need of communication and interchange
of ideas in the field of text mining and information extraction
applied to biology and biomedicine. Despite the successes
in other fields Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques
were not introduced in biology until the late 90's. There
exists a problem of misunderstanding and misinterpretation
in this field that hinders the development toward powerful
text mining systems accepted by biologists (the actual users).
To improve this situation we hold regular open meetings to
bring together researchers from the field to interchange ideas
and share them with a wider community interested in the latest
developments and to discuss common goals, standard datasets
and uniform evaluation criteria.
Bio-Ontologies
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr/meeting03/
Brisbane sees the Sixth Annual bio-Ontologies meeting. Bio-ontologies
are a domain wide activity, rather than dealing with one aspect
of bioinformatics. Upto six years ago, ontologies were seen
as a niche activity within bio-informatics. There are those
that still argue about the form an utility of ontologies,
but we have seen great advances both in research and practical
use of ontologies within bioinformatics. Come to the Sixth
Bio-Ontologies meeting to catch up on news and discussion
in a lively and friendly format. Contact Robert
Stevens for abstract submission or visit the Bio-Ontoogy
meeting Web site.
WEB
03 http://surya.bic.nus.edu.sg/web03/
This workshop aims to bring together Bioinformatics educators
for to meet, discuss and exchange ideas and suggestions. WEB03
will address fundamental issues that will determine the nature,
extent, content and delivery tools available for bioinformatics
programs embarked upon, as well as provide valuable lessons
for focus and improvement of nascent Bioinformatics programs.
The morning and afternoon sessions will feature short talks
from submitted abstracts, with poster viewing in the morning
break. WEB is an ideal meeting for Deans, academics, entrepreneurs,
trainers and students, interested in bioinformatics. Contact
Shoba Ranganathan (email: shoba@bic.nus.edu.sg)
for more details. |
