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2000 - Vol. 3 #3
- ISMB 2000
CONFERENCE IN SAN DIEGO, AUGUST 19-23,2000
- DR. OVERTON,
UPENN'S BIOINFORMATICS PIONEER
- BIOINFORMATICS
OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE 2000, (BOSC2000) IN SAN DIEGO, AUGUST 17-18, 2000
- BIOINFORMATICS
JOURNAL NOW ONLINE
- USE MONTHLY
NEWSLETTER FOR MASS MAILING
- CALL FOR
PAPERS: 16TH ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC2001)
ISMB 2000 CONFERENCE
IN SAN DIEGO, AUGUST 19-23,2000 ISMB 2000
This will be the biggest ISMB conference ever! It will be held in beautiful San
Diego, California from August 19-23, 2000. Early registration closes June 30.
After that registration is subject to available space. Emphasis will be on new
developments in gene regulation, pathway analysis, as well as sequence and structure
analysis. Following is the schedule:
- August 19, 2000
- 4 tutorials will
be presented.
- August 20-23, 2000
- 42 papers will be
presented from over 140 papers reviewed by the program committee
- Six keynotes
- Tribute lecture in
honor of Chris Overton
- Over 300 posters
will be displayed
- Exhibitors booths
- Birds-of-a-feather
sessions
- Job fair
- Two satellite meetings
to be held before and after ISMB 2000:
- Bioinformatics Open
Source Conference (BOSC)
(info: bosc@bubbles.sonsorol.org),
August 17-18
- Third Annual Bio-Ontologies
Meeting, August 24
Please refer to the Web site
http://ismb2000.sdsc.edu for full
details.
Philip Bourne &
Michael Gribskov
Chairs, ISMB 2000
DR. OVERTON, UPENN'S BIOINFORMATICS PIONEER
We are deeply saddened to pass on the news of the death of Dr. G. Christian Overton,
Director of the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania, and
member of the ISCB board of directors, from complications arising from cardiomyopathy.
The computational biology community has lost a major star and wonderful person.
Dr. Overton's charm, wit, good nature and academic brilliance will be greatly
missed. Our hearts go out to his wife Carolyn, their children and the entire family.
David Searls, Susan Davidson and David States are leading a drive to create an
award in Chris' honor. The hope is to establish a prize recognizing an outstanding
contribution to computational biology that will be awarded at the Society's ISMB
meeting each year. Companies or individuals interested in contributing to this
endowment should contact admin@iscb.org ABOUT CHRIS'S WORK:
- Chris was the founding
Director of the Center for Bioinformatics at Penn. The center was established
in 1997 as an interdisciplinary venture between the Schools of Medicine, Arts
and Sciences, and Engineering and Applied Science.
- Chris was also an Associate
Professor in the Department of Genetics, and held a secondary appointment
in the Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering
and Applied Science. He was internationally recognized as a pioneer in genomic
research. He was among the first to recognize the potential impact of computational
approaches for solving biological problems.
- Dr. Overton's training
in biophysics, developmental biology and computer science, and his deep understanding
of biomedical and computational problems, enabled him to establish many exciting
research projects, effectively bridging the gap between collaborators in numerous
fields. His own research interests focused on problems associated with database
integration, genome annotation, gene prediction, and the recognition of regulatory
elements within the sea of nucleotides that comprise the human genome. Through
his use of advanced computational techniques to help in the construction of
genomic databases, Dr. Overton also gained considerable recognition in computer
science.
David J. States, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Washington University in St. Louis
700 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
BIOINFORMATICS OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE 2000, (BOSC2000) IN SAN DIEGO,
AUGUST 17-18, 2000
Focused on discussing open source software in the field of bioinformatics, BOSC2000
will be held two days before the ISMB2000, on August 17-18, 2000. The two day
conference will feature speakers on software engineering techniques in the life
sciences. The conference is organized "by EMBL-EBI of the University of California,
Berkeley and others." Attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration
to: bosc@bubbles.sonsorol.org.
Some abstracts will be selected for presentation and while others will be selected
for poster presentation. Tools that are open source or built on top of open source
software will be given priority. The conference draws on the success of "Bioperl-99"
which was a satellite conference to ISMB-99. For more information: bosc@bubbles.sonsorol.org .
URL: http://ismb2000.sdsc.edu/bosc2000
Nomi Harris
Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
BIOINFORMATICS JOURNAL NOW ONLINE
An online version of the journal Bioinformatics is now available, according to
Oxford University Press. With improved functionality, a new 'look and feel' and
a new URL, the journal is hosted by HighWire Press [http://highwire.stanford.edu ],
a department of Stanford University Libraries. HighWire is host to some of the
world's leading scientific and medical journals, including Journal of Biological
Chemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and The EMBO Journal.
The new URL for 'Bioinformatics' is: http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org
While in the short term the old URL (www.oup.co.uk/bioinformatics ) will simply
redirect you to the new location, it is advisable to bookmark the new URL. As
a member of the ISCB, you automatically have free access to Bioinformatics Online.
It is our hope that you will find the new enhancements to the journal useful.
If you have any problem accessing the online journal, or any comments on Bioinformatics
in general, you are urged to contact Oxford University Press (prosserd@oup.co.uk ).
David C. Prosser
Oxford University Press
USE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR MASS MAILING If you want to contact
all of our members, use our society newsletter. Simply send to the ISCB office,
(admin@iscb.org ), a
one or two paragraph blurb and we will include it in our society newsletter, which
goes to all members monthly. We also ask that you consider a discount for ISCB
members in exchange for this mailing. For example, Stanford's Bioinformatics Certificate
program offered a 10% discount in a recent newsletter.
Russ Altman
President-Elect, ISCB
CALL
FOR PAPERS: 16TH ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC2001)
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Research Paper Track on Bioinformatics
16th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2001)
March 11-14, 2001
Las Vegas, Nevada USA The
explosion of data generated by recent developments in molecular biology and
genomics has produced computational challenges which represent collaborative
research opportunities for computer scientists. The primary aim of this track
is to attract papers that address these challenges relative to a variety of
problems and techniques and hence to showcase the spectrum of current computational
application within biology; as such, paper topics of interest include the whole
of bioinformatics and computational biology. Papers authored or co-authored
by students are of particular interest. As this is the first-ever research track
in bioinformatics at SAC, a special feature of this track will be a series of
associated events at SAC2001 sponsored by ACM SIGBIO (Special Interest Group
on Biomedical Computing), e.g., a plenary lecture, a half-day tutorial, a panel
discussion on developing university bioinformatics curricula. The deadline for
submission of extended abstracts is September 1, 2000, and authors will be notified
by October 13, 2000. For more information, see http://www.cs.mun.ca/~harold/CFP/SAC01
(bioinformatics track home page) or http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2001
(conference home page) or contact the track chair, Warren Jones (jones@cis.uab.edu).
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