ISMB 2005: A showcase of the highest quality and most advanced research in computational biology | Click here to view this announcement on the web. | View the detailed agenda at www.iscb.org/ismb2005/detailed.html. Click on the lists below for a link to the website with more information. Don't miss out! Registration is open! Discounted fees available until May 16. www.iscb.org/ismb2005/reg.html ISCB Member discount rates: Academic/Non-profit/Government/Postdoc - USD $350 Student - USD $225 Corporate - USD $450 Panel Discussions and Workshops (see conference detailed agenda) New this year we will be featuring exciting special interest panels and workshops at the ISMB conference. Watch the detailed agenda for updates and further information. Three of the planned workshops are… - Bioterrorism/Biosecurity
- Getting the Grant: Tips on writing grant applications to Federal Agencies
- NIH Funding Initiatives and Future Directions
- WEB05 - Education in Computational Biology
Paper Presentations http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/papers.html This year the paper presentations are organized into ten tracks representing the diversity of research that constitutes computational biology. This is your opportunity learn about the latest research on computational methods, their application to biological problems, and the insights gained from this work. Program Chairs: H.V. Jagadish & Burkhard Rost - Databases and Ontologies
Area Chairs: Susan Davidson and Carol Goble - Sequence Analysis
Area Chair: Des Higgins - Text Mining
Area Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann - Pathways, Networks and Systems
Area Chairs: Alfonso Valencia and Vincent Schachter - Evolution and Phylogeny
Area Chairs: Olivier Gascuel and Dannie Durand - Proteomics
Area Chair: Michal Linial - Transcriptome
Area Chair: Martin Vingron - Genomes
Area Chairs: Ying Xu and Steven Salzberg - Structural Bioinformatics
Area Chairs: Nir Ben-Tal and R. Sowdhamini - Bioinformatics Applications
Area Chair: Phil Bourne Elevated Abstract Presentations New this year: exemplary poster submissions have been selected for oral presentation. Chairs: Steven Brenner and Limsoon Wong - RNA and Protein Structural Biology
Session Chair: Michael Zuker - Sequence Analysis, Phylogeny and Evolution
Session Chair: Serafim Batzoglou - Genomics and Gene Expression
Session Chair: Michael Eisen - Pathways, Networks and Proteomics
Session Chair: Trey Ideker - Ontologies and Natural Language Processing
Session Chair: Mark Musen - Gene Regulation, microRNA's
Session Chair: Chris Bu Software Demonstrations http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/demos.html ISMB 2005 is the only conference to provide a venue for both academic and commercial developers to demonstrate their software tools and systems. This is your chance to see how these applications work and talk to the people who are involved in their design, development and application! Chairs: Goran Neshich and Jeffrey de Wet A small sampling from the full list of demonstrations: - Visualizing and Analyzing Biological Network Data in Cytoscape 2.1
- Reactome - A Knowledgebase of Biological Processes
- The Protege Suite of Tools: Accessing, Managing, and Visualizing Biomedical Ontologies
- The myGrid/Taverna Toolkit for Workflow Based Bioinformatics
- STING - A Web Server for Comprehensive Analysis of Protein Structure and Sequence
- PUMA2 - a Grid Technology Based Computational Environment for High-throughput Genetic Sequence Analysis and Evolutionary Analysis of Metabolism
- PIR: A Comprehensive Resource for Functional Analysis of Protein Sequences and Families
- The Pathway Tools Software
- EMBOSS
- UCSF Chimera: Molecular Graphics for Research and Analysis
- Apple Computer, Inc.: The Apple Workgroup Cluster
- Apple Computer, Inc.: Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' for the Life Sciences
- Biobase Corporation: Pathway Analysis with Curated Protein Databases
- CSIRO: GeneRave and New Statistical Algorithms for p>n Data
- IBM: From Biological Networks to Web Services: The Latest IBM Technologies for Querying Biological Data
- Sun Microsystems: Discovery to Development Demos: How to Save Time, Money & Hassels With 6 Solutions
Sponsorships and Exhibit Booths still available Exhibit Floor plan http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/exhibitor_all.html There are still sponsorship opportunities available and marketing opportunities for companies who serve the bioinformatics and computational biology field. From purchasing a booth space to placing your logo on an item provided for the conference delegates, to sponsoring a meal, there are many ways to meet the marketing needs. Items still available for sponsorship: Registration Bags Conference t-shirts Best paper and best poster award Coffee Breaks For more details regarding sponsorships, contact Stephanie Hagstrom shagstrom@iscb.org If you have further queries, contact us with you questions: http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/contact.html | | | Ewan Birney EMBL-EBI | | Howard Cash Gene Codes | | Peter Hunter U of Auckland | | Jill Mesirov The Broad Inst - MIT | | Satoru Miyano Human Genome Ctr - U of Tokyo | | Pavel Pevzner UC San Diego | | Janet Thornton EMBL-EBI | | Gunnar von Heijne Stockholm Bioinformatics Ctr | Workshops Getting the Grant: Tips on Writing Grants Applications to Federal Agencies Marc Rigas Funding Initiatives and Future Directions Peter Lyster | | | Ariadne Genomics, Biobase Corporation, Biomax Informatics, BioMed Central, Biosystems, Informatics Institute, Cambridge University Press, CRC Press - Taylor & Francis, Books, Inc., CSIRO Mathematical, Information Science, DOE, Elservier MDL, GenomeWeb, LLC, ISCB, ISMB 2006, LION bioscience, Inc., NSF, Orion, Multisystems, Partek Incorporated, PubGene, Public Library of Science, RCSB Protein Data Bank, Springer, Synamatix, The MathWorks, The MIT Press, The University of Michigan Bioinformatics Program, TimeLogic, Wiley | | Tutorials Fourteen half-day Tutorial Sessions will be held June 25 with a variety of topics for all levels of computational biology. There are sessions for those just getting into the field and sessions for those more experienced in the field Integration and Analysis of Diverse Genomic Data Olga Troyanskaya Optimal Design and Analysis of Microarray Experiments Ernst Wit and John McClure RNA: Algorithms for Structure Prediction and Gene-finders Peter Clote Developing and Using Special Purpose Hidden Markov Model Databases Martin Gollery Weighted Finite-State Transducers in Computational Biology Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri Semantic Aggregation, Integration and Inference of Pathway Data Joanne Luciano and Jeremy Zucker Attacking Performance Bottlenecks, Ruud van der Pas and Karl V. Steiner Principles of Ontology Construction Suzanna Lewis Introduction to Phylogenetic Networks Daniel Huson Mining the Biomedical Literature: State of the Art, Challenges and Evaluation Issues Hagit Shatkay Gene Expression Levels as Traits in Genetic Linkage Analysis Steffen Möller and Robert Hoffman A Bioinformatics Introduction to Cluster Computing Andrew Boyd, and Abhijit Bose Computational Geometry of Protein Structure and Function Iosif Vaisman A Massively Parallel High Performance Computing Environment for Computational Biology Gyan Bhanot and Bob Germain | | |