ISCB Newsletter

ISCB ANNOUNCES CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP SCHEME
ISCB's efforts to establish computational biology as a vibrant scientific discipline continue apace, with the announcement of a new institutional membership scheme. ISCB believes that forging links between industry and the Society will result in great benefit to the computational biology community as a whole, and invites companies to participate in this important enterprise. Two levels of institutional membership are offered:- Full membership: is aimed at companies with significant investment in bioinformatics, wishing to contribute to the development of this critical interdisciplinary field through the ISCB, and thereby support the establishment of bioinformatics as a scientific profession and the development of new career opportunities for bioinformatics scientists. Associate membership: is for companies who wish to contribute in a more limited way, but who also wish to benefit from some of the ISCB initiatives as a broker for recruitment and consultancy. Benefits for all institutional subscribers include a subscription to Bioinformatics, discounted registrations at ISCB-affiliated conferences, and a preferred position at the ISMB Job Fair. Further information on the benefits of institutional membership can be found on the ISCB web site: http://www.iscb.org Alternatively, mail your enquiry to: iscb-corporate@iscb.org

GENOME INFORMATICS WORKSHOP (GIW) 1999
December 14-15, 1999
Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, Japan
(see http://www.hgc.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/giw for CFP) The Tenth Workshop on Genome Informatics (GIW '99) focuses on Genome Informatics, including but not limited to research and development on theory, software tools, and application for the analysis, prediction and understanding of sequencial, structual and functional information which is included in Genome and their network of relations. Kiyoshi Asai Board of Directors member of ISCB Electrotechnical Laboratories

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL BIOINFORMATICS SUMMER SCHOOL
Devoted To Information Systems and Network Analysis of Gene Regulation and Metabolism Magedburg, Germany September 5 -10, 1999 You can see detailed information in the electronic poster at http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/iti_bm/ibss/ [please distribute to colleagues and graduate students] Post-genomic methods in molecular biology generate large amounts of expression data, which require computational methods for their storage, management, and analysis. Knowledge databases with information on genes not only as genome constituents but also as the elements of regulatory, signaling, and metabolic pathways are essential resource for "reverse engineering" regulatory and metabolic networks in the cell. An updated illustrative list of different methodologies available in the internet can be obtained at (http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/iti_bm/dagstuhl/demos.html ). The conclusion when looking at such a variety of approaches is that in order to support the analysis of gene regulation and metabolic network control we need distributed data access integrated with visualization, simulation, and analysis tools. Based on the experience of two International Dagstuhl Seminars on this topic (1995 and 1998 Schlož Dagstuhl with URL: http://www.dag.uni-sb.de ) we invited scientists to prepare specific courses in the following areas: