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Volume 14, Issue 1

Letter to ISCB
Members & Colleagues


Bloggers Welcome at ISMB/ECCB

Sr. Scientist Award:
Michael Ashburner


Overton Prize:
Olga Troyanskaya


ISCB Policy Statement on Open Access Literature

ISCB President-Elect Elections

Meet the ISCB Fellows
Class of 2011


Mark Your Calendar
ISMB 2012


FASEB Updates

Improving Wikipedia Content

Announcing
Rocky 2011


Announcing
GLBIO 2012


SCS7 Highlights

ISCB Student Council
Overview


Call for Proposals
ISCB-Asia 2012

Announcing ECCB12

Bioinformatics Journal

CSHALS: Semantic
Technologies Meet
Big Data


PLoS Computational
Biology
Overview


Spotlight on PSB Conference

Announcing
CSHALS 2012

Announcing InCoB/
ISCB-Asia 2011 Joint Conference


Announcing ISCB-Latin America 2012

EMBnet Collaboration on Education and Training

Upcoming Conferences & Events

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

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ISMB/ECCB 2011 VIENNA Affiliated Events
ISMB Satellite Meeting: 3D SIG
-Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics

Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
http://bcb.med.usherbrooke.ca/3dsig11/Home.html

ISMB Satellite Meeting: CAMDA
-Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis

Hosted By: Boku University Vienna
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
www.camda.info/

ISMB SIG Meeting: AFP/CAFA - The Automated Function Prediction SIG featuring CAFA: Critical Assessment of Function Annotation
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
www.biofunctionprediction.org/

ISMB SIG Meeting: Network Biology SIG -On the Analysis and Visualization of Networks in Biology
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 15, 2011
http://nrnb.org/netbiowiki

ISMB SIG Meeting: SNP-SIG -Identification and Annotation of SNPs in the Context of Structure, Function, and Disease
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 15, 2011
http://snps.uib.es/snp-sig/

ISMB SIG Meeting: AS-SIG -8th Alternative Splicing
- Special Interest Group
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
www.alternative-splicing.org/as-sig-11

ISMB SIG Meeting: Bio-Ontologies
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
www.bio-ontologies.org.uk

ISMB SIG Meeting: HiTSEQ 2011 -High Throughput Sequencing: Algorithms & Methodologies
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
http://hitseq.org

ISMB SIG Meeting: BioRegSIG
-2nd Bioinformatics for Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group

Jul 16, 2011 - Jul 16, 2011
http://light.ece.ohio.edu/bioreg/2011/

ISMB Satellite Meeting: RECOMB -BE -3rd RECOMB Satellite Conference on Bioinformatics Education
Jul 20, 2011 - Jul 21, 2011
http://casb.ucsd.edu/bioed11/

ISMB Satellite Meeting: MLSB 2011
- 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology

Jul 20, 2011 - Jul 21, 2011
http://mlsb11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/

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ISCB OFFICIAL CONFERENCES
InCoB/ISCB-Asia Joint Conference 2011
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
Nov 30, 2011 - Dec 02, 2011
ISCB Member Discount: up to 20%
www.incob2011.org/

Rocky 2011: Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CO - Snowmass Village/Aspen
Dec 08, 2011 - Dec 10, 2011 ISCB Member Discount: 200 USD www.iscb.org/rocky2011

ISCB-Latin America 2012
Chile - Santiago
Mar 19 - 21, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
www.iscb.org/iscb-latinamerica2012/

CSHALS 2012: Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences United States - MA -Cambridge
Feb 22 - 24, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 200 USD
www.iscb.org/cshals2012/

GLBIO 2012
United States - MI - Ann Arbor
May 15, 2012 - May 17, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
www.iscb.org/glbio2012/

ISMB 2012 - Celebrating 20 Years
United States - CA - Long Beach
July 15 - July 17, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 200 USD
www.iscb.org/ismb2012/

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OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST
Proteomics Bioinformatics
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: EBI/Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses
Jul 15, 2011 - Jul 19, 2011
www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences /AdvancedCourses/Workshops /WTX054153.htm

Beyond Next Generation Sequencing
Hungary - Budapest H
osted By: Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Jul 20, 2011 - Jul 23, 2011
www.renyi.hu/conferences/bngs2011/

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
United States - NY - Buffalo
Hosted By: University at Buffalo, National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR), National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO), International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) WG6
Jul 26, 2011 - Jul 30, 2011
http://icbo.buffalo.edu/

IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics,
Imaging and Systems Biology

United States - CA - San Jose
Hosted By: IEEE Technical Committee on Bioinformatics,
IEEE Computer Society
Jul 27, 2011 - Jul 29, 2011
www.ieee-hisb.org

ACM BCB 11: The 2011 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine
United States - IL - Chicago
Hosted By: ACM SIG Bioinformatics
Aug 01, 2011 - Aug 03, 2011
http://acmbcb.org/

Joint User-Training Workshop "Developing Multi-Scale, Multi-Cell Developmental and Biomedical Simulations with CompuCell3D and SBW"
United States - IN - Bloomington
Hosted By: Biocomplexity Institute at Indiana University
Aug 08, 2011 - Aug 19, 2011
www.compucell3d.org

5th Asian Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology Korea, Rep - Daejeon
Hosted By: ISCB Regional Student Group of Korea (RSG Korea)
Aug 10, 2011 - Aug 12, 2011
http://2011.ayrcob.org/

BIOKDD 2011: 10th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics Bookmark and Share
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: SIGKDD
Aug 21, 2011 - Aug 21, 2011
http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/biokdd11/

Knowledge Discovery in Health Care and Medicine
Greece - Athens
Hosted By: ECML/PKDD 2011
Sep 05, 2011 - Sep 09, 2011
www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/kd-hcm/

WABI 2011
Germany - Saarbrücken
Hosted By: Max-Planck-Institute für Informatics, Saarbrücken
Sep 05, 2011 - Sep 07, 2011
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/sagot/htdocs/wabi2011/wabi2011.html

Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology
Poland - Torun
Hosted By: 9th International Conference On Parallel Processing
and Applied Mathematics
Sep 11, 2011 - Sep 14, 2011
http://pbc.ppam.pl/

Mathematical and Computational Approaches in
High-Throughput Genomics

United States - CA - Los Angeles
Hosted By: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Sep 12, 2011 - Dec 16, 2011
http://ipam.ucla.edu/programs/gen2011/

Computational Systems Biology and Dose Response Modeling Workshop United States - NC - Research Triangle Park
Hosted By: The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
Sep 12, 2011 - Sep 16, 2011
www.thehamner.org/about-the-hamner/education-training/dose-response-modeling

International Symposium on e-Health 2011
United Kingdom - Wales - Cardiff
Hosted By: Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services and Computational Biology Group, University of Glamorgan
Sep 15, 2011 - Sep 15, 2011
www.glacombio.net/iseh2011/

RoSyBA: Rostock Symposium on Systems Biology and
Bioinformatics in Ageing

Germany - Rostock
Hosted By: IBIMA, Systems Biology Bioinformatics Rostock
Sep 15, 2011 - Sep 17, 2011
http://goethe.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ibima/rosyba2011/

CMSB 2011: 9th International Conference on Computational Methods
in Systems Biology

France - Paris
Hosted By: INRIA
Sep 21, 2011 - Sep 23, 2011
http://contraintes.inria.fr/CMSB11

HiBi 2011: High Performance Computational Systems Biology
France - Paris
Hosted By: 9th International Conference onComputational Methods
in Systems Biology
Sep 21, 2011 - Sep 23, 2011
www.hibi.it

Mathematical Oncology: New Challenges for Systems Biomedicine
Italy - Sicily - Erice
Hosted By: Ettore Majorana Foundation
and Centre for Scientific Culture
Sep 26, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011
www.dm.unipi.it/~erice2011/

ISPB-2011: International Symposium onPlant Biotechnology towards Tolerance to Stresses and Enhancing Crop Yield
India - Jharkhand - Mesra, Ranchi
Hosted By: Department of Biotechnology,
Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi,
Jharkhand, India
Sep 28, 2011 - Oct 01, 2011
http://ispb.bitmesra.ac.in/Default.aspx

RECOMB Comparative Genomics Galway 2011
Ireland - Galway
Hosted By: 9th Annual RECOMB Satellite
Workshop on Comparative Genomics
Oct 08, 2011 - Oct 10, 2011
http://recombcg.org

Chemical, Synthetic and Systems Biology:
New Directions of Biochemistry in the 21st Century

United States - Utah - Snowbird
Hosted By: American Society for
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Oct 12, 2011 - Oct 16, 2011
www.asbmb.org/ASBMBMeetings/SpecialSymposia/symposia.aspx?mid=17

PRIB2011: Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
Netherlands - ZH - Delft
Hosted By: Pattern Recognition & Bioinformatics Group, Delft University
of Technology, The Netherlands
Nov 02, 2011 - Nov 04, 2011
http://prib2011.org

Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
United Kingdom - Hinxton, Cambridge
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust
Nov 29, 2011 - Dec 01, 2011
http://registration.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/display_info.asp?id=231

The Seventh International Conference on Computer Engineering
and Systems

Egypt - CAI - Cairo
Hosted By: IEEE and Ain Shams University, Egypt
Nov 29, 2011 - Dec 01, 2011
www.iceec.org

GIW-2011: The 22nd International Conference on Genome Informatics
Korea, Rep - Busan
Hosted By: AASBi and KSBSB
Dec 05, 2011 - Dec 07, 2011
http://giw2011.kobic.re.kr

SWAT4LS 2011: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences
United Kingdom - London
Hosted By: Rothamsted Research, MRC, LUMC, IST, Corporate Semantic Web, MRC
Dec 07, 2011 - Dec 09, 2011
www.swat4ls.org/2011

ICDM 2011: 2nd Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications
in Healthcare

Canada - Vancouver
Hosted By: 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Dec 10, 2011 - Dec 10, 2011
www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM.html

Protein Interactions and Networks
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses
Dec 11, 2011 - Dec 17, 2011
www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses-and-Scientific-Conferences/Workshops/WTVM049891.htm

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