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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences
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| Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference Cincinnati, Ohio, USA May 16 - 18, 2014
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| The NGS Conference Barcelona, Spain June 22 - 24, 2014
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| Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2014 Boston, Massachusetts, USA July 11 - 15, 2014
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ISCB Latin America Conference on Bioinformatics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22 - 24, 2014 |
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ISCB Congratulates Philip Bourne on Recent NIH Appointment
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) congratulates past president and Fellow, Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D., on being selected as the first permanent Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Bourne will start his new role at NIH in early 2014.
ISCB Membership Survey
Join your colleagues in helping to define the future of ISCB! Take a few minutes to complete the ISCB Membership Survey.
ISCB: past–present perspective for the International Society for Computational Biology
An article in Bioinformatics by ISCB's President, Burkhard Rost on the important role ISCB continues to play in advancing the understanding of living systems through computation.
An Exciting New ISCB Member Benefit
ISCB is pleased to now provide to its members complimentary and full access to Faculty of 1000's F1000Prime. Take advantage of this exciting opportunity before it expires April 30, 2014!
Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS) Finalizes Program
Don't miss this exciting conference in February with four excellent key notes speakers and a tutorials on the Enterprise and Scientific Data Sharing using Callimachus. Papers and posters are still being accepted.
Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) Establishes Strong Program for 2014 Meeting
The conference is co-organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium to provide and interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods. An important goal for the conference is to foster long term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology. Check out the recent program updates and tutorial line-up.
| IMPORTANT DATES | ||
| January 10, 2014 |
Call for Paper Presentations Closes | |
| January 10, 2014 | Call for Posters Closes | |
| January 31, 2014 | Registration Deadline: Accepted Presenters Required | |
| CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES | ||
| ISCB MEMBER REGISTRATION FEES | Until Jan 25, 2014 |
Jan 26 – Feb 28, 2014 |
| Student | $200 | $300 |
| Post Doc | $325 | $425 |
| Academic/Non-profit/Government | $375 | $475 |
| Corporate | $575 | $675 |
| NON MEMBER REGISTRATION FEES | Until Jan 25, 2014 |
Jan 26 – Feb 28, 2014 |
| Student | $300 | $400 |
| Post Doc | $475 | $575 |
| Academic/Non-profit/Government | $575 | $675 |
| Corporate | $775 | $875 |
| Become a Member and SAVE! CSHALS should be part of your plans for 2014! |
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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences
February 26 - 28, 2014
Boston, MA
Submit full research papers, application papers, presentation abstracts, and posters Now!
Call for Submissions Deadline: January 10, 2014
Topics covered by CSHALS 2014 span the continuum between semantic standards development, data analytics, knowledge representation, information and knowledge management, knowledge engineering, and machine learning and reasoning.
CSHALS is the premier annual event focused on the practical application of Semantic Web and other semantic technologies to problems in the Life Sciences, including pharmaceutical industry and related areas, such as hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs.
CSHALS has for 7 years been the ISCB reference conference for cutting-edge practitioners of knowledge engineering and forward-thinking strategists in information and knowledge management in the life sciences.
Visit www.iscb.org/cshals2014 for all conference information.
Register NOW and join us in Boston!
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| January 15, 2014: Call for Presentations Closes February 28, 2014: Acceptance Notifications March 31, 2014: Early Bird Registration Deadline April 18, 2014: Room Block Rate Deadline |
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Become an ISCB Member and SAVE! Mark your calendar today and join us in Cincinnati at GLBIO 2014! |
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May 16 - 18, 2014
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati
Proposals are being accepted for:
GLBIO 2014 will feature dynamic Keynote Speakers and Tutorial sessions led by proven industry experts.
Gary Bader, Associate Professor
The Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto
http://baderlab.org/GaryBader
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Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya/
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Charles Brooks, Warner-Lambert/Park-Davis
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biophysics
University of Michigan
http://brooks.chem.lsa.umich.edu/index.php?page=charles_l._brooks_iii&subdir=articles/group
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Michael Hawrylcz, Investigator
Allen Institute for Brian Science
www.alleninstitute.org/about_us/staff/michael_hawrylycz.html
GLBIO 2014 will feature dynamic tutorial sessions led by proven industry experts on Friday, May 16.
Sorin Draghici, Wayne State University
Topic: Advanced Gene Network
Anil Jegga, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
Topic: Advanced Gene Network
Jarek Meller, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
Topic: An Introduction to Bioinformatics
Isaac Neuhaus, University of California at San Francisco
Topic: Visualization Web Interface - Javascript for Programmers
Larsson Omberg, Sage Bionetworks
Topic: An Introduction to Sage Synapys Platform
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| IMPORTANT DATES | ||
| January 10, 2014 |
Call for Paper Presentations Closes | |
| January 10, 2014 | Call for Posters Closes | |
| January 31, 2014 | Registration Deadline: Accepted Presenters Required | |
| CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES | ||
| ISCB MEMBER REGISTRATION FEES | Until Jan 25, 2014 |
Jan 26 – Feb 28, 2014 |
| Student | $200 | $300 |
| Post Doc | $325 | $425 |
| Academic/Non-profit/Government | $375 | $475 |
| Corporate | $575 | $675 |
| NON MEMBER REGISTRATION FEES | Until Jan 25, 2014 |
Jan 26 – Feb 28, 2014 |
| Student | $300 | $400 |
| Post Doc | $475 | $575 |
| Academic/Non-profit/Government | $575 | $675 |
| Corporate | $775 | $875 |
| Become a Member and SAVE! CSHALS should be part of your plans for 2014! |
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February 26 - 28, 2014
Boston, MA
Submit your work for an opportunity to present at CSHALS and join the prestigious line up of keynote speakers!
Introducing the CSHALS Keynotes:
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Ronald Collette Chief Information Officer Foundation Medicine Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Hilmar Lapp, Ph.D Assistant Director for Informatics National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Durham, North Carolina, USA Presentation Title: Semantics of and for the Diversity of Life: Opportunities and Perils of Trying to Reason on the Frontier |
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Deborah McGuiness, PhD Professor, Computer and Cognitive Science Founding Director, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Web Science Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Troy, NY, USA |
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Prof. Dr. B. (Barend) Mons Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC), The Netherlands Presentation Title: Semantics Based Biomedical Knowledge Search, Integration and Discovery |
For more information on submissions:
Register NOW and join us in Boston!
| CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Proceedings: Closes January 10, 2014 Highlights Track: Closes February 28, 2014 Posters: Closes March 14, 2014 Technology Track: Closes April 25, 2014 Art and Science: Closes May 9, 2014 |
| ISMB Registration: Registration for ISMB 2014 opens March 24, 2014 |
| ISCB Room Block Now Open! Book early and SAVE! |
Boston, Massachusetts
July 11 – 15, 2014
Call for Proceedings - ISMB 2014
The Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference will bring together Bioinformaticians and Computational Biologists working in a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. Papers that demonstrate both the development of new computational techniques AND their application to Molecular and Systems Biology, with significant outcomes to biomedical, agricultural, and environmental questions are especially encouraged.
Proceedings Deadline: January 10, 2014
Submit high-quality research papers in any aspect of computational biology, including the following areas:
| Area | Area Chair |
| Applied Bioinformatics | Thomas Lengauer, Lenore Cowen |
| Bioimaging & Data Visualization | Bob Murphy |
| Databases, Ontologies & Test Mining | Hagit Shatkay, Alex Bateman |
| Disease Models & Epidemiology | Simon Kasif, David Heckerman |
| Evolution & Comparative Genomics | Bernard Moret, Tandy Warnow |
| Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics | Alex Hartemink, Zohar Yakhini |
| Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics | Olga Vitek, Bill Noble |
| Metabolic Networks | Jason Papin |
| Population Genomics | Eran Halperin, Itsik Pe'er |
| Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks | Mona Singh, Trey Ideker |
| Protein Structure & Function | Jie Liang, Jinbo Xu |
| RNA Bioinformatics | Ivo Hofacker, Jerome Waldespuhl |
| Sequence Analysis | Cenk Sahinalp, Mike Brudno |