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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
ISCB mourns the loss of Rockefeller University mathematician Peter Sellers. Sellers was an early contributor to the theory of computing evolutionary distances between nucleotide sequences (PNAS 76(7):3041 1979). Through a four-plus decade career at Rockefeller, Dr. Sellers's research covered numerous problems at the intersection of mathematics and biology. His earliest collaborations with biologists were in the field of biochemical kinetics. Peter was also an accomplished sailor, who designed and built his own sailboat.
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Dear Colleagues,
Please help nominate papers in the field of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, that you've recently read and found to be of particular interest. Relevant areas include Motifs, Grammars, Networks, Systems, Variation, Disease, Personal Genomics, GWAS interpretation, Regulatory Evolution, Comparative genomics, Epigenomics, Physical modeling, Dataset Integration, Splicing regulation, transcriptional regulation, and all areas of gene and genome regulation at the systems level.
You can find the nomination form here: http://goo.gl/forms/ENlRYpOVhD
Please nominate papers that appeared between September 1st, 2013 and November 12, 2014. You can of course nominate a paper from your own group, but we ask that if you are doing so, to also take the time to nominate at least one paper that was not co-authored by you.
The nomination process will close on November 5th.
Our goal is to identify seminal papers that introduced not only new biological insights, but also key computational methodologies for interpreting biological datasets that have had and will continue to have a lasting impact in the field of Regulatory and Systems Genomics. These will be honored at an awards ceremony in the 2014 RECOMB/ISCB Meeting on Regulatory and Systems Genomics in San Diego on November 9-14, 2014. www.iscb.org/recomb-regsysgen2014
Thank you for your help and for being part of our community,
Manolis Kellis and Saurabh Sinha
Co-organizers, RegSysGen Top 10 Papers Reading List
ISCB Special Interest Group On Regulatory & Systems Genomics (RegSys SIG)
http://cosi.iscb.org/wiki/RegSIG:Home
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Join us in San Diego, California for five full-packed days of science and networking. The conference will feature 13 keynote speakers, 49 talks, 8 Cytoscape Application talks, 2 Cytoscape Workshops, and over 12 DREAM Challenge and Best Performer presentations.
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DREAM CHALLENGES |
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November 9-14, 2014
Join us in San Diego, California for five full-packed days of science and networking. The conference will feature 13 keynote speakers, 49 talks, 8 Cytoscape Application talks, 2 Cytoscape Workshops, and over 12 DREAM Challenge and Best Performer presentations.
Discounted hotel rooms are still available! Act now before the conference rate expires on FRIDAY!
Don't miss this premier event in Regulatory and Systems Genomics!!
REGISTER NOW
ISCB Announces Affiliates Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors Election Results Horton Elected as the ISCB Affiliates Representative to Board of Directors
Paul Horton, PhD, has been elected as the newest ISCB Affiliates Representative to the Board of Directors. Horton is presently the Director of the Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC) in Tokyo, Japan and is a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School for Frontier Sciences at Tokyo University. He is an active member of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) affiliate group and has served as an ISCB Board Member, and past ISCB Conferences Committee Chair.
Horton holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has experience in both the academic and tech start-up sectors. Horton’s computational interests include programming, algorithm development, and applications of machine learning. Horton applies his computational approaches to better understanding several biological areas, including subcellular protein localization, motif discovery, genome alignment, and sequence processing.
Horton has worked at CBRC since 2003, first as a research team leader, and more recently, as its director. Horton is spearheading CBRC’s plan to make significant and useful contributions to the application of genomic data in medicine and biotechnology.
Horton has served the bioinformatics community in numerous capacities, including his work as an ISCB board member and trustee of the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics. He chaired the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 conference and has also worked on conference committees for ISMB and other world-class bioinformatics meetings. He is currently chairing the GIW ISCB-Asia conference, which will be held in December in Tokyo, Japan. Horton is on the editorial boards of several bioinformatics journals and also advises graduate students at Tokyo University.
Horton’s diverse training and research experiences in the United States, Taiwan, and Japan have given him a valuable and unique perspective of the global bioinformatics community, which should serve him well in his new position as the affiliates representative.