Announcements

Registration Deadline: October 19, 2020

Join a distinguished group of attendees for the ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX Symposium on Bioinformatics 2020, bringing together scientists from different disciplines, such as Biology, Informatics, Genomics, Mathematics, Statistics, Ecology, Medicine, etc, to solve relevant biological questions.

This two-day event will feature:

• Invited speakers
• Roundtable networking breakouts
• Women in STEM panel discussion
• Flash talks selected from an open call for abstracts
• Scientific talks selected from articles submissions to Interface Focus Journal

Space is limited and complimentary, workshops & tutorials will take place online on October 22nd to 27th.

Workshop: Train the Trainer/Entrenamiento de Instructores/Treine o Treinador
9:00AM - 1:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 22 & 23, 2020

Tutorial: Discovery and phylogenetic characterization of animal viruses from metagenomic samples
9:30AM - 1:30PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 24 & 25, 2020

Workshop: Machine Learning in Bioinformatics using Galaxy
9:00AM - 5:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 26, 2020

Workshop: Identification of disease-associated genetic variants from next-generation sequencing data
10:00AM - 2:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 26 & 27, 2020

Workshop: Management and good practices in the assembly of bacterial, archaea and fungal genomes
9:00AM - 1:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 27, 2020

Workshop: Introduction to structural bioinformatics for evolutionary analysis
1:00PM - 5:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 27, 2020

Workshop: How to annotate protein-coding genes in genomic sequences
1:00PM - 5:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 27, 2020

• Bioinformatic strategies and methods to unravel RNA Genomics
• Computational Molecular Biology to Study Evolution in Microorganisms
• Development of Tools and Applications: Usability and Accessibility
• Ecology and Evolution
• Methods applied to Human Genetic studies
• Methods and Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology
• Population dynamics and Evolution in Eukaryotes
• Strategies in Cancer Genomics: From family to population studies
• All other related areas

September 16, 2020 at 12:00PM EDT, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Phase III by Zhiping Weng, hosted by ISCB

The human and mouse genomes contain instructions that specify RNAs and proteins and govern the timing, magnitude, and cellular context of their production. To better delineate these elements, phase III of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project has expanded analysis of the cell and tissue repertoires of RNA transcription, chromatin structure and modification, DNA methylation, chromatin looping, and occupancy by transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins. Here we summarize these efforts, which have produced 5,992 new experimental datasets, including systematic determinations across mouse fetal development. All data are available through the ENCODE data portal (https://www.encodeproject.org), including phase II ENCODE and Roadmap Epigenomics data. We have developed a registry of 926,535 human and 339,815 mouse candidate cis-regulatory elements, covering 7.9 and 3.4% of their respective genomes, by integrating selected datatypes associated with gene regulation, and constructed a web-based server (SCREEN; http://screen.encodeproject.org) to provide flexible, user-defined access to this resource. Collectively, the ENCODE data and registry provide an expansive resource for the scientific community to build a better understanding of the organization and function of the human and mouse genomes.

Hosted by:

• NEW September 29, 2020 at 11:00AM EDT, Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic by Philippe Lemey, hosted by ISCB
  
• September 30, 2020 at 11:00AM EDT,  RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference by Alexey Kozlov, hosted by EvolCompGen COSI
  
• Date TBD at time TBD, Altered RNA Splicing by Mutant p53 Activates Oncogenic RAS Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer by Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, hosted bv iRNA COSI and RNA Society
  

Deadline: September 14, 2020