Special Interest Groups (SIGs) & Satellite Meetings (SMs)
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Satellite Meetings
SIGS (Special Interest Groups)
One-Day SIGs – Friday, July 10, 2015
Integrative RNA Biology SIG (IRB-SIG)
NetBio SIG
One-Day SIGs – Saturday, July 11, 2015
Automated Function Prediction (AFP-SIG)
Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group (RegGenSIG)
VarI SIG
Two-Day SIGs – Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, 2015
Bio-Ontologies
BioVis SIG
BOSC:16th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
HitSEQ: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
Satellite Meetings
3Dsig: Structural Bioinformatics & Computational Biophysics
URL: http://bcb.med.usherbrooke.ca/3dsig15/
Date: Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Liffey Hall 1
3Dsig Structural Bioinformatics & Computational Biophysics has become the largest meeting in this growing field. This year we are celebrating our 11th meeting and highlighting the 2013 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt & Arieh Warshel, the pioneers of the field. Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt will give the main after-dinner talk. In addition, our keynotes include Amadeo Caflisch, Guido Capitani, William DeGrado, Lucy Forrest, Des Higgins, Lynn Kamerlin, Sarah Teichman and Harel Weinstein.
In addition to keynotes our diverse program will include 20 talks selected from submitted abstracts, laptop software demos and poster sessions. Simply put, 3DSIG is the most comprehensive conference in the field and should not be missed by anyone using macromolecular structure to computationally unravel the mysteries of living systems.
Over the years, 3DSig has brought the leaders of the field of Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics in an ideal environment for personal contacts and discussions. The list of past keynotes includes: Russ Altman, Patricia Babbitt, Ivet Bahar, Nir Ben-Tal, Tom Blundell, Phil Bourne, James U. Bowie, Steven Brenner, Steve Bryant, Janusz Bujnicki, Stephen Burley, Wah Chiu, Cyrus Chothia, Charlotte Deane, Roland Dunbrack, Keith Dunker, Aled Edwards, Arne Elofsson, Stephen Friend, Dmitrij Frishman, Adam Godzik, David Goodsell, Nick Grishin, Kevin Karplus, Amy E. Keating, Tanja Kortemme, Gunnar von Heijne, Barry Honig, David Jones, Thomas Lengauer, Michael Levitt, Olivier Lichtarge, Andrei Lupas, François Major, George I. Makhatadze, Debora Marks, John Moult, Klaus Mueller, Masha Niv, Ruth Nussinov, Arthur Olson, Christine Orengo, Robert Preissner, Burkhard Rost, Rob Russell, Andrej Sali, Chris Sander, Jeffrey Saven, Tamar Schlick, Torsten Schwede, Luis Serrano, Brian Shoichet, Michael Schroeder, Kim A. Sharp, Jeffrey Skolnick Manfred Sippl, Michael Sternberg, Raymond Stevens, Joel Sussman, Devarajan Thirumalai, Janet Thornton, Anna Tramontano, Ron Unger, Alfonso Valencia, Sandor Vajda, Rebecca Wade, Haim Wolfson, Ada Yonath.
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2015
Relevant topics are listed in http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/146.long
These include:
- Macromolecular (tertiary and quarternay) structure prediction.
- Application of structure to systems biology and vice versa.
- Structure-based drug discovery including polypharmacology and network pharmacology.
- Structure representation, classification and prediction.
- Macromolecular assemblies and multi-domain protein structures.
- Structural genomics.
- 3D databases and data mining including integration and accessibility of methods and databases.
- Molecular visualization.
- Relevant methods of structure determination, particularly hybrid methods.
- Structure-based function prediction.
- Evolution Studied through structures and evolution (e.g. correlated mutations) utilized to predict and study structures
- Docking, analysis, prediction and simulation of biomolecular interactions such as protein-protein, protein-ligand and protein-nucleic acid.
- Chemical systems biology and small molecule docking simulations.
- Prediction and analysis of protein domains.
- Membrane protein structure analysis and prediction.
- Protein dynamics and disorder
- The structural basis of immunology.
- 3D RNA structures
- Protein engineering and synthetic biology.
We look forward to meeting you at 3Dsig
Philip E. Bourne (chair)
Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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Rafael Najmanovich
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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Ilan Samish
The Weizmann Institute of Science; and
Braude College of Engineering, Israel
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CAMDA 2015 Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
URL: http://www.camda.info
Date: Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Meeting Room 2
The emergence of Big Data in the life sciences is considered one of the grand challenges of our time. The interpretation of large data sets is now one of the scientific key techniques in the post genomic era. Still the data analysis bottleneck limits genome scale experiments in providing new medical and biological insights at a larger scale. This trend towards the need for analysing massive data sets is further accelerated by novel high throughput sequencing technologies and the increasing size of biomedical studies.
CAMDA focuses on the analysis and integration of the massive data sets now prevalent in the life sciences. It introduces new approaches and solutions to the Big Data problem, and presents new techniques in the field of bioinformatics, data analysis, and statistics for handling and processing challenging large data sets. By discussing cutting-edge problems and opportunities, the conference offers researchers from a wide range of fields a unique opportunity to benefit from a critical comparative evaluation of approaches to exploiting Big Data in the life-sciences.
This year, the scientific committee of CAMDA has set three data analysis contest challenges:
- A toxicogenomics study with matched NGS and microarray profiles for the response of over 100 rat livers to 27 chemicals with 9 different modes of action.
- A synthetic reference benchmark with built-in truths, spanning multiple NGS, microarray, and qPCR platforms from the FDA SEQC.
- A selection of large-scale cancer studies of less well-understood diseases from the latest release of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), including matched gene and microRNA expression profiles from RNA-Seq, somatic CNV, methylation, and protein expression profiles.
We cordially invite you to attend this year's CAMDA in Dublin!
Keynotes:
Des Higgins, University College Dublin, Ireland (confirmed)
Gaddy Getz, Broad Institute, Boston (t.b.c.)
Key dates:
- May 20, 2015 - Extended Abstract Proposals Due
- May 25, 2015 - Abstract Deadline for Poster Submission
- May 30, 2015 - Notification of Accepted Contributions
- June 6, 2015 - Early Registration Closes
- July 10 & 11, 2015 - CAMDA 2015
- Aug 25, 2015 - Full Paper Submission
Organizers:
Djork-Arné Clevert, JKU Linz, Austria
Joaquin Dopazo, CIPF, Spain
Lan Hu, Exosome Diagnostics, Cambridge, MA, USA
David Kreil, Boku University Vienna, Austria
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SIG Meetings
Automated Function Prediction (AFP-SIG)
URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org/
Date: Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Ecocem Room
The accurate annotation of protein function is key to understanding life at the molecular level. However, with its inherent difficulty and expense, experimental characterization of function cannot scale up to accommodate the vast amount of sequence data already available. The computational annotation of protein function has therefore emerged as a problem at the forefront of bioinformatics. Recently, the availability of genomic-level sequence information for thousands of species, coupled with massive high-throughput experimental data, has created new opportunities as well as challenges for function prediction. Many methodologies have been developed by research groups worldwide, many based in comparing unsolved sequences with databases of proteins whose functions are known. Other methods aim at mining the scientific literature associated with some of these proteins, yet others combine sophisticated machine-learning algorithms with an understanding of biological processes to decipher what these proteins do.
The mission of the Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG) is to bring together computational biologists, experimental biologists and biocurators who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product function prediction, to share ideas and create collaborations. The AFP-SIG holds annual meetings alongside the ISMB. Also, we are conducting the multi-year Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation, or CAFA, experiment.
Talks are sought in, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Function prediction using sequence based methods. This would include "classic" methods such as detection of functional motifs and inferring function from sequence similarity.
- Function from genomic information: prediction by genomic location; locus comparison with other organisms; function gain and loss.
- Phylogeny based methods
- Function from molecular interactions
- Function from structure
- Function prediction using combined methods
- "Meta-talks" discussing the limitations and horizons of computational function prediction.
- Assessing function prediction programs
Key Dates:
- March 1, 2015: Call for abstracts (talks & posters) opens
- April 6, 2015: Deadline for submitting abstracts
- May 9, 2015: Authors notified of abstract status
- July 11, 2015: AFP/CAFA 2015, Dublin, Ireland
- July 10-15, 2015: ISMB 2015, Dublin, Ireland
Keynote speaker: Ioannis Xenarios, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
Organizers:
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sean Mooney, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mark Wass Kent University, UK This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Iddo Friedberg, Miami University, Oxford OH USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Bio-Ontologies
URL: http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk
Date: Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Meeting Room 1
The Bio-Ontologies SIG provides a forum for discussion of the latest and most innovative research in the appplication of ontologies and more generally the organisation, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biomedicine and the life sciences. Bio-Ontologies has existed as a SIG at ISMB for 18 years, making it one of the longest running.
Key Dates
- April 10th, 2015 Submissions Due
- May 8th, 2015 Notifications
- May 15th, 2015 Final Version Due
The 2015 meeting will be a two day SIG, with July 11th being the “Phenotype Day”. Papers are invited in areas, such as the applications of bio-ontologies, newly developed bio-ontologies, and the use of ontologies in data sharing standards. Example topics include (but not limited to):
Applications of ontologies in bioinformatics
Hypothesis Testing Platforms
Use of Ontologies in Phenotype representation
"Flash updates" on Newly Developed or Existing Bio-Ontologies
Bio-Curation Platforms
Automated Annotation Pipelines
Efforts using ontologies for Bio-NLP or Information Retrieval
Semantic Web Enabled Applications
Role of Bio-Ontologies in Health 2.0
Advances in development of biomedical ontologies
Collaborative Ontology Authoring and Peer-Review Mechanisms
Automated Ontology Learning
Mapping between Ontologies
Research in Ontology Evaluation
Using games for Ontology review and evaluation
Organizers:
Nigam Shah, Stanford University, United States,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Michel Dumontier, Stanford University, United States,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Larisa Soldatova, Brunel University, United Kingdom,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Philippe Rocca-Serra, University of Oxford, United Kingdom,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phenotype Day co-ordinators: Nigel Collier, Anika Oellrich, Tudor Groza, and Karin Verspoor
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BioVis SIG: 5th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization
URL: http://biovis.net
Date: Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 1
The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for the computational visualization techniques that are necessary in order to enable researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets.
The Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is the premier international and interdisciplinary event for all aspects of visualization in biology. The symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. The symposium serves as a platform for researchers from these fields to increase the impact of data visualization approaches in biology. The breadth and diversity of biological research topic areas will enable researchers from all parts of the visualization and bioinformatics communities to contribute to this effort and the symposium will provide an excellent opportunity to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations.
Keynote speaker:
Torsten Möller, Research Group Visualization and Data Analysis, University of Vienna, Austria
Lawrence Hunter , Director of the University of Colorado's Computational
1) Papers:
We are soliciting high-quality papers that will go through a rigorous peer-review, and will be published either in BMC Bioinformatics or BMC Proceedings and be orally presented at the symposium; accepted highest-quality papers will be published in the BMC Bioinformatics journal, accepted papers that feature high quality but are not accepted for BMC Bioinformatics will be published in BMC Proceedings (for details see http://biovis.net/year/2015/papers)
2) Posters:
We seek work in progress and preliminary results; previously published work from other venues; visualization challenges (for details see http://biovis.net/year/2015/posters). Submissions consist of a 250 abstract and an image;
3) Data Contest:
We are soliciting visualizations or visualization tools that would help biologists develop hypotheses about what features of the RNA molecules described by the "observed" sequences are important to their function; submit a 2-page extended abstract (for details see http://biovis.net/year/2015/data-contest)
4) Design Contest:
Please submit a designed figure utilizing effective encodings and clear visual communication to display better representations for RNA structures (for details see http://biovis.net/year/2015/design-contest)
Note that the data and design contest are highly connected and a combined submission is also welcome.
Key Dates: (all deadlines are 5:00pm PDT)
- February 15, 2015 – Paper submission
- May 1, 2015 - Submission deadline for the Data Contest
- May 1, 2015 - Submission deadline for the Design Contest
- May 29, 2015 - Poster abstract submission
Organizing Committee members:
General chairs:
- Kay Nieselt, University of Tübingen, Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For the full committee, see http://biovis.net/year/2015/info/committee.
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BOSC: 16th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
URL: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2015
Date: Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2A
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is run as a two-day meeting before the annual ISMB conference. It is sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community.
Open Source software has flourished in the bioinformatics community for well over a decade. When the first BOSC was held in 2000, there were already many popular open source bioinformatics packages, and the number and range of these projects has increased dramatically since then. BOSC covers the wide range of open source bioinformatics software being developed, and encompasses the growing movement of Open Science, with its focus on transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance. We welcome submissions relating to all aspects of bioinformatics and open science software, including new computational methods, reusable software components, visualization, interoperability, and other approaches that help to advance research in the biomolecular sciences. Two full days of talks, posters, panel discussions, and informal discussion groups will enable BOSC attendees to interact with other developers and share ideas and code, as well as learning about some of the latest developments in the field of open source bioinformatics.
Key dates:
- March 3, 2015 - Call for abstracts opens
- April 3, 2015 - Abstract submission deadline
- May 9, 2015 - Authors notified
- July 10-11, 2015 - BOSC 2015
- July 10-14, 2015 - ISMB/ECCB 2015
Keynote Speakers
Holly Bik, University of Birmingham
Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI
Co-Chairs:
Peter Cock <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> (James Hutton Institute, Scotland, UK)
Nomi L. Harris <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Organizing Committee members:
Monica Munoz-Torres (Berkeley Bioinformatics Open Source Projects)
Brad Chapman (Harvard School of Public Health, USA)
Robert Davey (The Genome Analysis Centre, UK)
Christopher Fields (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA)
Karsten Hokamp (Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Hilmar Lapp (Duke University, USA)
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HitSEQ: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
URL: http://hitseq.org
Date: Friday, July 10 & Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Liffey Hall 2
The Conference on High Throughput Sequencing Methods and Applications (HiTSeq 2015) is a Satellite of the ISMB 2015 conference and brings together biologists and computational scientists interested in exploring the challenges and opportunities in the analysis of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies. HiTSeq 2015 is devoted to the latest advances in computational techniques for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data including novel algorithms, analysis methods and applications in biology where high-throughput sequencing data has been transformative. It provides a forum for in-depth presentations of novel algorithms, analysis methods, and applications in multiple areas of biology that HTS is transforming. This year we are hosting two special emphasis sessions on “Big Data In Genomics” and “Clinical genomics”. We are soliciting high-quality full papers that will undergo rigorous peer-review. Especial consideration will be given to works on the emphasis areas of this year, but other topics as described below are welcome as well. If accepted, these contributions will be presented at the conference and published in Bioinformatics online. Simultaneously, short abstract submissions will be accepted for either a brief oral presentation or presentation during the poster session.
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Richard Durbin, Head of Computational Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Emmanouil Dermitzakis, University of Geneva
Possible Topics include:
- Big Data in genomics (special topic)
- Clinical genomics (special topic)
- Detecting genome variation
- Transcriptome analysis
- Epigenomics and chromatin regulation (including 5-C, Hi-C etc.)
- Cancer genomics
- Metagenomics
- Human microbiome
- Analysis of 3rd and 4th generation sequencing platform data
Key Dates/Deadlines:
- Full paper deadline: April 7
- Abstract deadline: May 12
- Author notifications: May 26
- Early Registration Ends: June 5
- Meeting Program: July 10-11
Organizers:
Valentina Boeva, Ph.D. Institut Curie, Paris 75005, France
Ana Conesa, Ph.D. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Francisco M. De La Vega, D.Sc. Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Dirk J. Evers, Ph.D. Molecular Health GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
Kjong-Van Lehmann, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Editorial Coordination:
Gunnar Rätsch, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Integrative RNA Biology - SIG (IRB-SIG)
URL: http://irbgroup.org/irb-sig-15/
Date: Friday, July 10
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Liffey Meeting 2
The meeting for Integrative RNA Biology brings together computational and experimental experts that drive new advances in RNA biology and overcome the computational challenges involved.
The meeting covers different aspects of RNA biology, such as alternative splicing, alternative polyadenylation (APA), post-transcriptional regulation, RNA 2D/3D structure, and the expression and function of non-coding RNAs, such as micro-RNAs (miRNAs), small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs), PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), or long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA). Studying these functional RNAs in the context of disease and therapeutics using high-throughput technologies such as RNA-Seq and CLIP-Seq, raise many computational challenges that are discussed at the meeting.
This year we have an exciting line-up of researchers from academia and industry that cover advances and challenges in RNA quantification methods, targeting RNAs for therapeutic application, the role of RNA binding proteins in cancer, RNA processing, epigenetics, lncRNA and evolution.
Join us to learn more about RNA biology and the computational challenges involved. The meeting includes invited talks, short talks selected from submitted abstracts, and an interactive poster session with a poster prize. The meeting concludes with a dinner that will give you a chance to mingle and interact with organizers, speakers, and other attendees in an informal and relaxed setting.
More details about key dates, abstract submission process and invited speakers can be found at: http://irbgroup.org/irb-sig-15/
We hope to see you with us at the IRB-SIG 2015 in July 10th, Dublin, Ireland.
Confirmed Speakers:
Nicole Meisner (Novartis, Switzerland)
Mar Alba (IMIM & ICREA, Barcelona, Spain)
Cathal Seoighe (National University of Ireland)
Magnus Rattray (University of Manchester, England)
David Elliott (Newcastle University, England)
Organizers:
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, United States This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Eduardo Eyras , UPF & ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Klemens Hertel, UC Irvine, United States, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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NetBio SIG
URL: http://nrnb.org/netbiosig/
Date: Friday, July 10
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2B
Overview:
Biological networks provide a context for integrating and analyzing massive amounts of diverse kinds of measurement data, such as expression data from RNA-Seq, protein abundance and interaction data from mass spectrometry, and genetic data from association studies. Network theory provides powerful analysis techniques that can be used to develop insights into large amounts of data. Our use of networks in biology has changed from purely representational and didactic purposes to more analytic and hypothesis formulation purposes. This shift has resulted, in part, from the confluence of advances in computation, informatics, and high throughput techniques in systems biology.
We will solicit abstracts that cover new developments in network biology, focusing on two major areas: (1) the development of network-related tools and resources, and (2) the application of network analysis and visualization in the study of biology, synthetic biology and medicine. The meeting will provide a unique meeting space for tool developers and users in the field of network biology. Through these complementary lenses, the meeting will bring into focus the current state of the field, its future promise and how to get there.
How to Participate:
Find the latest information including how to submit an abstract for the upcoming NetBio community meeting. In addition to the annual meeting, the NetBio group functions year-round as an international virtual community supporting and co-organizing multiple meetings, connecting researchers, results, resources and training opportunities. Find out more via the NetBio Group at LinkedIn.
Keynote Speakers:
Ron Shamir - Do networks help in making sense of the omics data deluge? - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Henning Hermjakob - Open Community Standards in Proteomics and Systems Biology - The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), UK
Brenda Andrews - Global Mapping of Genetic Networks in Yeast - University of Toronto, Canada
Florian Markowetz - Functional analysis of genetic interaction networks - University of Cambridge, UK
Organizers:
Alexander Pico, Gladstone Institutes, United States, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Scooter Morris, University of California, San Francisco, United States, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gary Bader, University of Toronto, Canada, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mario Albrecht, Graz University of Technology, Austria, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Natasa Przulj, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Esti Yeger Lotem, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Israel, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Frank Kramer, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Martina Kutmon, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group (RegGenSIG)
URL:http://light.ece.ohio.edu/~reggen/2015/
Date: Saturday, July 11
Start Time: 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Room: Wicklow Hall 2B
Regulatory genomics involves the study of the genomic ‘control system,’ which determines how, when and where to activate the ‘blueprint’ encoded in the genome. Regulatory genomics is the topic of much research activity worldwide. Since computational methods are important in the study of gene regulation, the RegGenSIG meeting focuses on bioinformatics for regulatory genomics. An important goal of the meeting is to foster a collaborative community wherein scientists convene to solve difficult research problems in all areas of computational regulatory genomics.
RegGenSIG is an activity of the ISCB Special Interest Group for Regulatory Systems Genomics, (http://www.iscb.org/iscb-sigs-regsys), a community of shared interest that has multiple activities and interactions throughout the year, rather than solely meeting during the ISMB conference. An important goal of the SIG is to foster a topically-focused collaborative community wherein scientists communicate with one another on research problems and/or opportunities in the area of computational biology as it pertains to regulatory and systems genomics.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
To make an oral presentation at RegGenSIG, extended abstracts (2-3 pages) should be submitted by April 27, 2015. Based on the submitted abstracts, each author will be invited to make either an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Authors will be notified by May 8, 2015. For poster presentations, authors should submit a 250 word abstract no later than May 18, 2015. Author notification will occur no later than May 25, 2015.
RegGenSIG 2015 - Extended abstractTo make an oral presentation at RegGenSIG, extended abstracts (2-3pages) should be submitted by April 27, 2015, to Finn Drablos (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Extended abstract:
To make an oral presentation at RegGenSIG, extended abstracts (2-3 pages) should be submitted by April 27, 2015, to:
Finn Drablos (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), with Subject "RegGenSIG 2015 - Extended abstract".
Poster abstract:
To make a poster presentation at RegGenSIG, poster abstracts (250 words) should be submitted by May 18, 2015, to:
Finn Drablos (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), with Subject "RegGenSIG 2015 - Poster abstract".
KEY DATES:
- April 27, 2015 Due date for extended abstracts (2-3 pages) for oral presentations
- May 8, 2015 Author notification for oral presentations
- May 18, 2015 Due date for short abstracts (250 words) for poster presentations
- May 25, 2015 Author notification for poster presentations
- June 6, 2015 Early registration cut-off date
- July 11, 2015 RegGenSIG meeting
RegGen SIG Organizers
Finn Drablos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lonnie Welch, Ohio University Athens, United States, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois Urbana, United States This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stein Arts, University of Leuven, Belgium This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS), Paris, France
Jason Ernst, University of California, Los Angeles, United States, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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VarI SIG
URL: http://varisig.biofold.org
Date: Saturday, July 11
Start Date: Saturday July 11, 8:30 a.m - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday July 12, 10:30 AM - 12:25 PM,
Room: Liffey Meeting 2
The primary goal of the VarI-SIG is to outline and discuss the recent advances in the methodology for the annotation and analysis of genomic variation data.
Genetic variants are generally interesting in the context of their phenotypic manifestations. The discrepancy between the availability of SNV data and the current lack of its interpretation requires the development of methods for the annotation/prediction of the genetic variant impact. In the near future the analysis of genetic variation will be a key factor for the understanding of the information encoded in the genome.
The VarI-SIG provides a forum for the organization of a research network, a community of scientific interest (COSI), facilitating the exchange of ideas and the establishment of new collaborations bringing together varying expertise. It thus supports the unprecedented collaborative effort to manage the complexity of the analysis and evaluation of genetic variation.
The meeting will be divided into two sessions - "SNVs as markers: evolution, populations, GWAS" and "Genetic variants as effectors: function, structure, and regulation". This year, in the context of the newly introduced ISMB/ECCB Disease Thematic Area, we will also follow our regular meeting day with a half-day session within the main conference. We have an exciting program planned for the event including keynote talks, invited presentations, a roundtable discussion and a poster session. For detailed information please see the SIG website.
We are interested in submissions describing original work in all the fields of genomic variation research including, but not limited to:
- Databases, data mining algorithms and visualization tools for genetic variants analysis.
- Methods for predicting regulatory/structural/functional impacts of SNVs
- Personal Genomics, GWAS studies and SNV prioritization
- Population genomics and phylogenetic analysis
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
VarI-SIG accepts submissions for presentation proposals (2-3 pages) and poster abstracts.
Both contributions should be submitted by April 12, 2015.
Acceptance notification will be sent out by April 26, 2015.
Please indicate in your submission of presentation proposals if you DO NOT plan to attend the main conference and DO NOT wish to present on the second day of the SIG
Abstract should be submitted through EasyChair using the following URL
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=varisig2015
KEY DATES
- April 12, 2015 - Poster Abstract and Presentation Proposal submissions deadline
- April 26, 2015 - Poster and Presentation Proposal acceptance notifications.
- May 10, 2015 - Preliminary SIG Program Available
- May 29, 2015 - Complete SIG Program Available
- June 6, 2015 - Early registration cut-off date
- July 11, 2015 - Vari-SIG meeting
SIG CHAIRS
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, USA
Emidio Capriotti, University of Alabama, USA
Hannah Carter, University California, San Diego, USA
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