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Registration Information for ISMB 2003

On-line registration closed,
participants may register on-site starting Friday, June 27 at the Brisbane
Convention Center Main Foyer

FEES INCLUDE: scientific sessions, poster session, exhibit hall entrance, breakfast, lunches, receptions, and one copy of the ISMB 2003 proceedings.

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Please Note: GST = Goods and Services Tax
MEMBER FEES
BEFORE May 23, 2003 AFTER May 23, 2003
Academic/Non-profit/Goverment US$470 (includes 10% GST) US$580 (includes 10% GST)
Student US$340 (includes 10% GST) US$450 (includes 10% GST
Corporate
US$745 (includes 10% GST) US$850 (includes 10% GST)

NON -MEMBER FEES
BEFORE May 23, 2003 AFTER May 23, 2003
Academic/Non-profit/Goverment US$550 (includes 10% GST) US$660 (includes 10% GST)
Student US$385 (includes 10% GST) US$500 (includes 10% GST)
Corporate
US$825 (includes 10% GST) US$935 (includes 10% GST)

Cancellation Policy: Request for registration cancellation must be made in writing & sent to ISMB Registration Office, c/o CTE, PO Box 2686, Des Plaines, IL 60018 or faxed to 1-847-297-5086. All refunds will be processed and mailed following the ISMB 2003 Conference. Refunds will be made in accordance with the following schedule:

  • Cancellations Received on or before April 25, 2003 will receive a full refund minus a $50.00 processing fee.
  • Cancellations Received between April 25, 2003 and May 30, 2003 will receive a full refund minus a $75.00 processing fee.
  • No refunds of fees will be made after May 30, 2003.

ISCB MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION: Registrants are encouraged to join the International Society for Computational Biology. Please click here to join ISCB.

OTHER ITEMS:
Banquet tickets - Wednesday, July 2 - $50.00

ICE BREAKER - ORIENTEERING EVENT
Join us for the Second Annual ISMB Orienteering Ice Breaker
Saturday, June 28, 2003
14:00 - 16:30 - $10.00 and $5,00 for under 18 years old


PUBLICATIONS: All ISMB 2003 registrants will receive one copy of the proceedings and/or tutorial notes. Additional copies will be available on-site for the following fees:
  • Additional proceedings US$50.00
  • Additional tutorial notes US $25.00

TUTORIAL SESSIONS: June 29, 2003
Individuals will be able to register for one or two optional tutorials. There will be 8 concurrent sessions in the morning and 8 concurrent sessions in the afternoon.
Price for one tutorial: US$85
Price for two tutorials: US$130

Tutorials Schedule (Sunday, June 29, 2003)
All tutorials will be held in the Brisbane Conference Center

Morning Tutorials (8:30 - 12:30; Coffee break: 10:15 - 10:30 )      
AM1
Bioethics for Bioinformaticists - Wayne Hall (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM2
Introducing Workflow Integration of BioEnterprise Applications on a Java Platform - Tin Wee Tan (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM3
Statistical Issues in Microarray Data Analysis - Mark Reimers (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM4
Analysis of regulatory sequences controlling the expression of gene network - Wyeth Wasserman and Boris Lenhard (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM5
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary analysis - David Horner and Graziano Pesole (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM6
Molecular Modeling: building a 3D protein structure from its sequence - Shoba Ranganathan (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM7
Mining the Biomedical Literature using Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing Techniques - Ronen Feldman and Hagit Shatkay (download the abstract as a pdf)
AM8
The EM algorithm and some of its applications in molecular biology - Frederique Galisson (download the abstract as a pdf)
Afternoon Tutorials ( 13:30 - 17:30; Coffee break: 15:15 - 15:30 )                                                                 
PM9
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics - Ajit Narayanan and Bjorn Olsson (download the abstract as a pdf)
PM10
Computational approaches to detecting gene-gene interactions - Jason Moore (download the abstract as a pdf)
PM11

Orthology Analysis - Eric Sonnhammer CANCELLED

PM12
Data Warehousing in Molecular Biology - Vladimir Brusic (download the abstract as a pdf)
PM13
Microarray Data Normalization and Transformation - John Quackenbush and Cathy Ball (download the abstract as a pdf)
PM14
Extracting Biological Information from System-scale Protein Interactome Data - Sudhir Sahasrabudhe and Jake Chen (download the abstract as a pdf)
PM15
Molecular Evolution: Evolutionary Dynamics and Molecular Biophysics - Richard Goldstein and David Pollock (download the abstract as a pdf)
PM16
Training and Support for Bioinformatics - Theoretical and Practical Aspects - Eitan Rubin and Aviv Shachak (download the abstract as a pdf)

SIG's: June 27 and June 28, 2003
ISMB will be host to a number of Special Interest Group meetings during the ISMB2003 conference, see below for SIG titles and fees.

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC)           
Friday, June 27
09:00 - 21:00
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 21:00
Plenary: Mezzanine M3
Breakout Room 1: Mezzanine M5/M6
Breakout Room 2: Mezzanine M7/M8
Corporate Rate: $ US $150.00
Academic / Government: $ 130.00
Student: $110.00
Biopathways                                                                     
Friday, June 27
09:00 - 21:00
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 21:00
Plenary: Mezzanine M4
Breakout Room 1: Plaza P3
Breakout Room 2: Plaza P4
Corporate Rate: $ US $150.00
Academic / Government: $ 130.00
Student: $110.00
Text Mining (BioLINK)
Friday, June 27
09:00 - 17:30
Mezzanine - M2 Corporate Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00
Bio-Ontologies                                                                    
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 17:30
Mezzanine M1 Corporate Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00
WEB 03                                                                             
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 17:30
Mezzanine M2 Corporate Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00