Announcements

Mark your calendars for tomorrow, September 9, 2020!

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September 9, 2020 at 2:00PM 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.

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GLBIO 2021 - May 10-13, 2021, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Call for GLBIO 2021 Special Session Proposals

Deadline: September 14, 2020

Special Sessions will consist of three broad categories:

Focused workshops on specific research problems in computational biology and bioinformatics
Software schools, aimed at providing training in new methods
Activities focused on students and postdocs, or non-academic career opportunities

Interested in organizing a Special Session?
Visit https://www.iscb.org/glbio2021-special for more information and submit your proposal today!

Submit Special Session Proposal

Join us at the University of Minnesota -
Twin Cities for the
2021 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference
May 10 - 13, 2021

MCNAMARA ALUMNI CENTER
200 Oak St., Minneapolis, MN 55455

The conference is organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium to provide an 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. The program will include oral presentations, poster presentations, invited keynote speakers and tutorials.

Mark your calendars for August 24, 2020!

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August 24, 2020 at 11:00AM EDT, Unravelling the Mystery of Orphan Genes to Understand the Origins of Genetic Novelty by Nikos Vakirlis
hosted by EvolCompGen and SMBE

What explains the presence of a gene only in the genome of one species and not in any other? Species-specific protein-coding genes, also known as orphans, can arise "from scratch" from previously non-genic loci, through a process known as de novo gene emergence. How exactly the evolutionary transition from non-gene to functional gene unfolds is unclear. Can such denovo emerging genes increase an organism's fitness, and if so how? Orphan genes can also result from extensive sequence divergence of ancestral genes, which can eventually erase all similarity of a gene to its homologues in other species, a process even less well understood than de novo emergence. I will present novel findings which advance our understanding of both these evolutionary mechanisms and bring us a small step closer to a complete picture of the origins of genetic novelty.

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Call for GLBIO 2021 Special Session Proposal

Deadline: September 14, 2020
Special Sessions will consist of three broad categories:

Focused workshops on specific research problems in computational biology and bioinformatics
Software schools, aimed at providing training in new methods
Activities focused on students and postdocs, or non-academic career opportunities

Interested in organizing a Special Session?
Visit https://www.iscb.org/glbio2021-special for more information and submit your proposal today!

Submit Special Session Proposal

RSG with DREAM 2020, November 16-19, 2020

Submit Your Research to RSGDREAM 2020

The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics (RSGDREAM 2020) invites abstracts for consideration for oral presentations or participation in a poster session. Abstracts may be either original unpublished work or original work that was published or accepted for publication in a high-impact journal between January 1, 2020 and November 1, 2020.

This conference is designed to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation. Some possible topics include:

Network visualization and analysis
Regulatory motifs and modules
Epigenomics and chromatin state
Non-coding RNAs
Regulatory networks
Co-transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational regulation
Signal transduction networks
Genetic, molecular, and phenotypic variation and human disease
Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
Single-cell transcriptomics
Single-cell proteomics
Metabolomics
Microbiome
Machine learning methods for systems biology
Translational systems biology

Key Dates:

Abstract Submission for Oral Presentation and Poster deadline: Monday, October 5, 2020
Author notifications will occur on or around Monday, October 19, 2020
Late Breaking Posters will have an open deadline until capacity is reached

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Genomics in Immunology

RSGDREAM 2020 will include an abstract submissions track for a Special Session of Cancer Systems. We welcome submissions on computational and experimental advances regulatory and systems genomics in immunology. Topics include but are not limited to: immunological regulatory programs and signaling pathways, genetic and non-genetic sources of self/non-self identification, precision epitope identification and targeting, and immune cell regulation. The session will include presentations from keynote speakers as well as talks from selected abstracts. This special session is sponsored by the Research Center for Cancer Systems Immunology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an NCI-funded Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC) Center.

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Announcements

September 08, 2020: Register for the next ISCBacademy Webinar

September 03, 2020: GLBIO 2021 Call for Special Session Proposals

Aug 21, 2020: Register for the next ISCBacademy Webinar

August 20, 2020: GLBIO 2021 Call for Special Session Proposals

August 13, 2020: RSGDREAM 2020 Call for Submissions