ISCB Newsletter 9-1

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Volume 9, Issue 1

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Announcing MentorNet
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ISMB 2006 News & Updates:

- ISMB 2006 Registration
Now Open

- SwissProt 20

- SIGs & Satellite Meetings

- Introducing the PLoS Track of Oral Presentations

- Student Council Symposium

- Help Send a Student to ISMB

- Advertise in the ISMB 2006 Newsletter

Other Conferences News
and Reports:

- RECOMB Celebrates 10 Years

- Affiliate Focus: OKBIOS

- Travel Fellowships Available

- Key Conferences: Key Dates

Student Travel Fellowships Yearbook

Bioinformatics Books New Online Features

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Upcoming Conferences & Events

News From the Field

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Upcoming Conferences & Events

ISCB Annual Conferences

ISMB 2006
Brazil - Ceara - Fortaleza
Dates: Aug 06, 2006 through Aug 10, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: $100
AB3C Member Discount: 35%
Event URL: www.iscb.org/ismb2006

Rocky ’06 – ISCB Rocky Mountain Regional Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CO - Aspen/Snowmass
Dates: Dec 01, 2006 through Dec 03, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: www.iscb.org/rocky06

ISCB Co-Sponsored Conferences & Affiliated Conferences

World Pharmaceutical Congress 2006
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Dates: May 23 through May 25, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
Event URL: www.worldpharmacongress.com/

Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis (CAMDA 2006)
United States – NC – Durham
Hosted By: Duke University

Dates: Jun 08, 2006 through Jun 09, 2006
Event URL: www.camda.duke.edu/camda06/

Structure Based Drug Design
United States - MA - Boston
Dates: June 15 through June 16, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
Event URL: www.healthtech.com/2002/sbd/

Beyond Genome 2006
United States - CA - San Francisco
Dates: June 19 through June 21, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
Event URL: www.beyondgenome.com/

Profiling PCR and Beyond
United States - VA - Arlington
Dates: June 26 through June 28, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
Event URL: www.healthtech.com/2006/pcr/index.asp

In-silico Analysis of Proteins: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary
of Swiss-Prot
Brazil - CE - Fortaleza
Hosted By: Swiss-Prot Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Dates: Jul 30, 2006 through Aug 04, 2006
Event URL: www.swissprot20.org/

ISMB Satellite Meeting
3Dsig: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics
Brazil - Fortaleza
Hosted By: ISCB

Dates: Aug 04, 2006 through Aug 05, 2006
Event URL: 3dsig.weizmann.ac.il/

ISMB Special Interest Group Meetings
Brazil - Fortaleza
Hosted By: ISCB

Dates: Aug 04, 2006 through Aug 05, 2006
Event URLs:

Joint BioLINK and Bio-Ontologies Meeting (JBB) www.jbb06.org
BioPathways www.biopathways.org/
Alternative Splicing (AS – SIG) www.biolinfo.org/as-sig/
BOSC www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2006

Microarray Data Analysis
United States - DC - Washington
Dates: August 23 through August 25, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
Event URL: www.healthtech.com/2006/MDA/

The Second Automated Function Prediction Meeting
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Dates: Aug 30, 2006 through Sep 01, 2006
Event URL: BioFunctionPrediction.org/AFP/afp06

ECCB ’06 - 5th European Conference on Computational Biology
Israel - Eilat
Hosted By: ECCB

Dates: Sep 10, 2006 through Sep 13, 2006
ISCB Member Discount: 25 Percent
Event URL: www.eccb06.org

6th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics WABI’06
Switzerland - Zurich
Hosted By: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ)

Dates: Sep 11, 2006 through Sep 13, 2006
Event URL: algo06.inf.ethz.ch/wabi/

InCoB 2006
India – New Delhi
Hosted By: Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network

Dates: Dec 18, 2006 through Dec 20, 2006
Event URL: www.incob2006.in/

PSB 2007 – Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
United States – HI – Maui
Hosted By: PSB
Dates: Jan 3, 2007 through Jan 7, 2007

ISCB Member Discount: $75
Event URL: psb.stanford.edu/

RECOMB 2007 – Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
United States – CA – San Francisco
Hosted By: qb3 (ucb-ucsc-ucsf)
Dates: April 21, 2007 through April 25, 2007

ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: www.RECOMB2007.com

Other Conferences & Events of Interest

CASP6.5--Between CASPs Public Meeting
United States - NY - New York
Hosted By: Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction
Dates: May 01, 2006 through May 01, 2006
Event URL: cubic.bioc.columbia.edu/meetings/casp_6_5/

Molecular Interactions - Bringing Chemistry to Life
Italy - Bozen/Bolzano
Hosted By: Beilstein-Institut
Dates: May 15, 2006 through May 19, 2006
Event URL: www.beilstein-institut.de

Training Course in Biomedical Ontology
Germany - Saarland
Hosted By: National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Dates: May 21, 2006 through May 24, 2006
Event URL: ontology.buffalo.edu/06/os2/index.html

SMBE 2006 Conference: Genomes, Evolution, & Bioinformatics
United States - AZ - Tempe
Hosted By: Arizona State University
Dates: May 24, 2006 through May 28, 2006
Event URL: www.smbe.org/geb

BIT’ 4th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science & Technology 2006
China - Liaoning and Sha - Dalian and Xian
Hosted By: Dalian Bio Integration Technology
Dates: May 25, 2006 through Jun 01, 2006
Event URL: www.iddst.com

Evolution of Biomolecular Structure, Vienna
Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: Theoretical Chemistry, Univ Vienna
Dates: May 25, 2006 through May 27, 2006
Event URL: www.tbi.univie.ac.at/EBSV06/

Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (Part of ICCS 2006)
United Kingdom - Reading
Hosted By: Dr P. Ramasami
Dates: May 28, 2006 through May 31, 2006
Event URL: www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006/

2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA 2006)
United Kingdom - Reading
Hosted By: University of Reading, UK
Dates: May 28, 2006 through May 31, 2006
Event URL: dna.engr.uconn.edu/IWBRA/

Fourth International Chemometrics Research Meeting (ICRM 2006)
Netherlands - Veldhoven
Hosted By: Dutch Chemometric Society
Dates: May 28, 2006 through Jun 01, 2006
Event URL: www.icrm.info

3rd International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics
Netherlands - Amsterdam
Hosted By: Netherlands BioInformatics Centre
Dates: May 29, 2006 through May 31, 2006
Event URL: isnb.amc.uva.nl/

Signalling to Chromatin - Epigenetics
United Kingdom - Hinxton
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Dates: Jun 05, 2006 through Jun 09, 2006
Event URL: www.esf.org/conferences/lc06205

Cold Spring Harbor Course in High Throughput Data Analysis
United States - NY - Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Dates: Jun 14, 2006 through Jun 27, 2006
Event URL: meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-data06.shtml

EMBnet AGM 2006
Sweden - Uppsala
Hosted By: EMBnet Sweden & EMBnet Finland
Dates: Jun 14, 2006 through Jun 18, 2006
Event URL: www.embnet.org/AGM2006/Site/AGM2006.html

8th Biodetection Technologies
United States - DC - Washington
Hosted By: The Knowledge Foundation
Dates: Jun 15, 2006 through Jun 16, 2006
Event URL: www.knowledgefoundation.com

Structure Based Drug Design
United States - MA - Boston
Dates: June 15 through June 16, 2006
ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
Event URL: www.healthtech.com/2002/sbd/

Workshop on Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology
Finland - Tuusula
Hosted By: University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
Dates: Jun 17, 2006 through Jun 18, 2006
Event URL: www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/bioinfo/events/pmsb06/

AREADNE 2006: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles
Greece - Santorini
Hosted By: AREADNE Organizing Committee
Dates: Jun 22, 2006 through Jun 25, 2006
Event URL: www.areadne.org

Symposium of Computations in Bioinformatics and Bioscience (SCBB06)
China - Zhejiang - Hangzhou
Hosted By: ZheJiang University (China)
Dates: Jun 22, 2006 through Jun 26, 2006
Event URL: mfgn.usm.edu/ebl/IMSCCS06/index.htm

INFORMS International Meeting - Bioinformatics Cluster
Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Hosted By: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dates: Jun 25, 2006 through Jun 28, 2006
Event URL: www.informs.org/Conf/Hongkong06/

Gene Networks: Theory and Application
United States - NV - Las Vegas
Hosted By: The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP’06)
Dates: Jun 26, 2006 through Jun 29, 2006
Event URL: www.bio-complexity.com/biocomp06_GeneNetworks.html

2nd International Conference on Data Management for Real-Life Problems in Biomedicine (DMRB 2006)
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: San Diego Supercomputer center, University of California at San Diego, National University and US Education Service
Dates: Jun 27, 2006 through Jun 29, 2006
Event URL: www.conferencehome.com/

EURO XXI 2006, 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Stream
Iceland - Reykjavik
Hosted By: EURO, The Association of European OR Societies
Dates: Jul 02, 2006 through Jul 06, 2006
Event URL: www.euro2006.org/

2006 Workshop on the Biological Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (BioGEC’06)
United States - WA - Seattle
Hosted By: Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO)
Dates: Jul 08, 2006 through Jul 09, 2006
Event URL: www.epistasis.org/biogec2006.html

Quantitative Approaches to Gene Regulatory Systems
United States - CA - La Jolla
Hosted By: Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
Dates: Jul 09, 2006 through Jul 21, 2006
Event URL: ctbp.ucsd.edu/workshops/index.php?id=18

Microbial Stress Response
United States - MA - South Hadley
Hosted By: Gordon Conference
Dates: Jul 09, 2006 through Jul 14, 2006
Event URL: grc.org/programs/2006/micrstrs.htm

NETTAB 2006 on Distributed applications, Web Services, Tools and GRID Infrastructures for Bioinformatics
Italy - Sardinia - Santa margherita di Pula (CA)
Hosted By: DIEE, University of Cagliari, Italy
Dates: Jul 10, 2006 through Jul 13, 2006
Event URL: www.nettab.org/2006/

3rd International Conference “Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Nanotechnology for Medicine”
Russia - Nov. - Novosibirsk
Hosted By: International Tomographic Center, SB RAS
Dates: Jul 12, 2006 through Jul 16, 2006
Event URL: ibmc.msk.ru/gpbm2006/

The 2006 BGRS International Summer School for Young Scientists
Russia - Novosibirsk
Hosted By: Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS
Dates: Jul 12, 2006 through Jul 15, 2006
Event URL: www.bionet.nsc.ru/meeting/bgrs_school_2006/index.html

The DIMACS Bio-Math Connect Institute 2006
United States - CO - Broomfield
Hosted By: DIMACS / Rutgers University
Dates: Jul 16, 2006 through Jul 28, 2006
Event URL: dimacs.rutgers.edu/dci/2006/

Intelligent Computation for Molecular Biology (WMSCI 2006)
United States - Florida - Orlando
Hosted By: Intelligent Computation for Molecular Biology (WMSCI 2006)
Dates: Jul 16, 2006 through Jul 19, 2006
Event URL: www.iiisci.org/wmsci2006/website/

Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure (BGRS’2006)
Russia - Novosibirsk
Hosted By: Institute of Cytology and Genetics
Dates: Jul 16, 2006 through Jul 22, 2006
Event URL: www.bionet.nsc.ru/meeting/bgrs2006/

DILS06: 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences
United Kingdom - Hinxton - Cambridge
Hosted By: European Bioinformatics Institute, UK, and Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Dates: Jul 20, 2006 through Jul 22, 2006
Event URL: www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/dils2006/index.html

Computing Supporting Biology
United States - CA - Stanford
Hosted By: Life Science Society
Dates: Aug 14, 2006 through Aug 18, 2006
Event URL: www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/index2006.html

2006 LSS Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CA - Palo Alto
Hosted By: The Life Science Society
Dates: Aug 14, 2006 through Aug 18, 2006
Event URL: www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/

The 1st International Workshop on Multi-Objective Cybernetics
(MOC 2006)
Finland - Helsinki
Hosted By: IEEE-ICCC- 2006 and WSYS 2006- The 1st Int. Workshop on Systems and Complexity
Dates: Aug 18, 2006 through Aug 19, 2006
Event URL: plectics.org

Interactome Networks
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Dates: Aug 30, 2006 through Sep 03, 2006
Event URL: www.cshl.edu/meetings

6th European Conference on Computational Chemistry
Slovak Republic - Tale
Hosted By: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
Dates: Sep 03, 2006 through Sep 07, 2006
Event URL: www.fns.uniba.sk/~eucocc6/index.html

4th International Workshop on Biological Data Management
Poland - Poland - Krakau
Hosted By: non
Dates: Sep 04, 2006 through Sep 08, 2006
Event URL: www.dexa.org

3rd Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop
United Kingdom - herts - harpenden
Hosted By: rothamsted research
Dates: Sep 04, 2006 through Sep 06, 2006
Event URL: www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ibiof/

Genomic Perspectives to Host Pathogen Interactions
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Dates: Sep 07, 2006 through Sep 10, 2006
Event URL: www.cshl.edu/meetings

2006 VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
South Korea - Seoul
Hosted By: VLDB 2006
Dates: Sep 11, 2006 through Sep 11, 2006
Event URL: bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/

Genome Informatics
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Dates: Sep 13, 2006 through Sep 17, 2006
Event URL: www.cshl.edu/meetings

Fourth Annual RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Comparative Genomics
Canada - QC - Montreal
Hosted By: Montreal, Canada
Dates: Sep 24, 2006 through Sep 26, 2006
Event URL: www.crm.umontreal.ca/Genomics06/

CompLife06 - 2nd International Symposium on Computational Life Science
United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire - Cambridge
Hosted By: Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Dates: Sep 27, 2006 through Sep 29, 2006
Event URL: www.complife.org

Integrative Approaches to Brain Complexity
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Dates: Sep 28, 2006 through Oct 01, 2006
Event URL: www.cshl.edu/meetings

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2006)
United States - UT - Provo
Hosted By: Brigham Young University
Dates: Oct 20, 2006 through Oct 21, 2006
Event URL: www.biotconf.org/

9th Annual Computational Genomics Conference
United States - MD - Baltimore
Hosted By: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Dates: Oct 28, 2006 through Oct 31, 2006
Event URL: www.conted.vt.edu/genomics/

The 21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS’06)
Turkey - Istanbul
Hosted By: Sabanci University
Dates: Nov 01, 2006 through Nov 03, 2006
Event URL: fens.sabanciuniv.edu/iscis06/

Progress in Systems Biology 2006
Canada - On - Ottawa
Hosted By: University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada
Dates: Nov 09, 2006 through Nov 10, 2006
Event URL: mededu.med.uottawa.ca/oisb/sympindex.htm

Fifth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2007
Hong Kong
Hosted By: University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science
Dates: Jan 15, 2007 through Jan 17, 2007
Event URL: www.cs.hku.hk/apbc2007/