| Frontiers in Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges | |
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United States - CA - Irvine |
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| Hosted by: | National Academy of Sciences (USA) |
| Venue: | National Academy Campus, Irvine |
| Dates: | Oct 15, 2004 through Oct 17, 2004 |
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| Meeting Overview The Sackler Colloquium Frontiers of Bioinformatics to be held October 16 and 17, 2004, will provide a forum for discussing concepts and methods emerging in bioinformatics concomitant with recent advances in theory and experiment across the biological and medical sciences. The deluge of genome data in the last two decades has driven the emergence of bioinformatics as an important discipline. The first wave of genome sequence data created a demand for tools for search, comparison, and analysis of nucleic acid protein sequences and macromolecular structures. The second wave of expression data has similarly created a demand for tools that allowed the data to be understood and reduced. Future waves promise to bring innovations in proteomics research, including protein structure, interactions, compartmentalization, and turnover. In addition, experimental biologists are likely to create other new technologies that will further enable high throughput collection of useful biological data. These sources of cellular data will also be correlated with higher levels of phenotypic data, based on observations of the nature of cells, organs and organisms. Our understanding of basic biology will be facilitated through the comparison of organisms at different evolutionary distances, in order to reconstruct both the tree of life and the emergence of important phenotypic traits. Also, there is a growing expectation that bioinformatics will help fuel the creation of computational models (both qualitative and quantitative) which will allow us to capture, store and maintain biological models that help explain experimental observations. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf/urllinks/NAS-58MTTC?OpenDocument |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
| Contact Person: | Russ B. Altman ([javascript protected email address]) |
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