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Volume 9, Issue 2

President's Letter

Welcome to ISMB 2006!

Student Council Events

Mathieu Blanchette
Overton Prize

Michael Waterman
Senior Scientist
Accomplishment Award

One Year of
PLoS Computational Biology

PLoS CB Education Column
- Call for Contributions

BioLINK and BioCreAtIvE:
Linking Text to Biological Resources

ISCB Officer and Student
Council Leadership Elections

MentorNet News

Post your Events & News

Announcing ISMB/ECCB 2007

Premier 2006 Meetings

Student Travel Fellowships

Newsletter Cover Image Competition

News from the Field

Key Dates for Key Meetings

Bioinformatics Books
on ISCB Website

Upcoming Conferences
& Events

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Events and Opportunities of Interest

ISCB Annual Conferences
Rocky'06
United States - CO - Snowmass
Dec 01, 2006 - Dec 03, 2006
ISCB Member Discount
www.iscb.org/rocky06
ISMB/ECCB 2007
Austria - Vienna
Jul 21, 2006 - Jul 25, 2007

ISCB Member Discount
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007


ISCB Co-Sponsored Events
3Dsig: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics
Brazil - Fortaleza
Hosted By: ISMB
Aug 04, 2006 - Aug 05, 2006
www.weizmann.ac.il/3dsig/
ECCB '06 - 5th European Conference on Computational Biology
Israel - Eilat
Hosted By: ECCB
January 21 - January 24, 2007
ISCB Member Discount: 25 Percent
www.eccb06.org
RECOMB Satellite Conferences on Systems Biology and Computational Proteomics
United States, CA, San Diego
Hosted By: Calit2, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology
Dec 01, 2006 – Dec 03, 2006
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
chianti.ucsd.edu/recombsysbio06
PSB 2006 - Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
United States - HI - Maui
Hosted By: Stanford University
Jan 03, 2007 - Jan 07, 2007
ISCB Member Discount: $75 USD
psb.stanford.edu
RECOMB 2007
United States - CA - San Francisco
Hosted By: qb3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
Apr 21, 2007 - Apr 25, 2007
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
www.recomb20007.com

ISCB Affiliated Events
SwissProt20 - In-silico Analysis of Proteins: Celebrating
the 20th Anniversary of Swiss-Prot

Brazil - Fortaleza
Hosted By: Swiss-Prot Group,
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Jul 30, 2006 - Aug 04, 2006
www.swissprot20.org/
Total Microarray Data Analysis and Interpretation
United States - D.C. - Washington
Hosted By: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Aug 23, 2006 - Aug 25, 2006
ISCB Member Discount: 10 Percent
www.healthtech.com
The Second Automated Function Prediction Meeting
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: Calit2
Aug 30, 2006 - Sep 01, 2006
BioFunctionPrediction.org/AFP/afp06
6th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics WABI '06
Switzerland - Zurich
Hosted By: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ)
Sep 11, 2006 - Sep 13, 2006
algo06.inf.ethz.ch/wabi/

Other Conferences & Events of Interest
Methods in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
United States - ME - Bar Harbor
Hosted By: The Jackson Laboratory
Aug 06, 2006 - Aug 11, 2006
www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=332&detail=scope
2006 LSS Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CA - Palo Alto
Hosted By: The Life Science Society
Aug 14, 2006 - Aug 18, 2006
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
Aug 18, 2006 - Aug 19, 2006
plectics.org
Multi-Protein Complexes Involved in Cell Regulation
United Kingdom - Cambridge
Hosted By: Keystone Symposia
Aug 18, 2006 - Aug 23, 2006
keystonesymposia.org/E6
6th SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: ACM SIGKDD Conference
Aug 20, 2006 - Aug 20, 2006
www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD06
Interactome Networks
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Aug 30, 2006 - Sep 03, 2006
www.cshl.edu/meetings
6th European Conference on Computational Chemistry
Slovak Republic - Tale
Hosted By: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
Sep 03, 2006 - Sep 07, 2006
www.fns.uniba.sk/~eucocc6/index.html
4th International Workshop on Biological Data Management
Poland - Krakau
Hosted By: non
Sep 04, 2006 - Sep 08, 2006
www.dexa.org
Final CFP: 3rd Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop
United Kingdom - Herts - Harpenden
Hosted By: Rothamsted Research
Sep 04, 2006 - Sep 06, 2006
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
Sep 07, 2006 - Sep 10, 2006
www.cshl.edu/meetings
Genomic Perspectives to Host Pathogen Interactions
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Sep 07, 2006 - Sep 10, 2006
www.cshl.edu/meetings

2006 International Workshop on Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining and Informatics
United States - CA - Santa Barbara
Hosted By: UC Santa Barbara
Sep 07, 2006 - Sep 08, 2006
www.bioimageinformatics.org/2006/

Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment Methods (DREAM) Workshop
United States - NY - New York
Hosted By: Gustavo Stolovitzky
and Andrea Califano
Sep 07, 2006 - Sep 08, 2006
dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/ReverseEng/announcement.html
International Workshop Distributed, High-Performance and Grid Computing in Computational Biology (GCCB 2006)
Israel - Eilat
Hosted By: ECCB 2006
Sep 10, 2006 - Sep 10, 2006
gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk/-Introduction-.html
2006 VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
South Korea - Seoul
Hosted By: VLDB 2006
Sep 11, 2006 - Sep 11, 2006
bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB06/
Genome Informatics
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Sep 13, 2006 - Sep 17, 2006
www.cshl.edu/meetings
Short Course on Complex Trait Analysis
United States - ME - Bar Harbor
Hosted By: The Jackson Laboratory
Sep 16, 2006 - Sep 22, 2006
www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=341&detail=scope
Fourth Annual RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Comparative Genomics
Canada - QC - Montreal
Hosted By: Montreal, Canada
Sep 24, 2006 - Sep 26, 2006
www.crm.umontreal.ca/Genomics06/
CompLife06 - 2nd International Symposium on Computational Life Science
United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire - Cambridge
Hosted By: Cambridge University,
United Kingdom
Sep 27, 2006 - Sep 29, 2006
www.complife.org
Integrative Approaches to Brain Complexity
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust
Sep 28, 2006 - Oct 01, 2006
www.cshl.edu/meetings
Genomes, Medicine, and the Environment Conference
United States - SC - Hilton Head Island
Hosted By: J. Craig Venter Institute
Oct 16, 2006 - Oct 18, 2006
www.venterinstitute.org/gme
Genomes, Medicine, and the Environment Conference
United States - SC - Hilton Head Island
Hosted By: J. Craig Venter Institute
Oct 16, 2006 - Oct 18, 2006
www.venterinstitute.org/gme
International Conference Converging Sciences 2006,TRENTO - ITALY
Italy - Trento - Povo
Hosted By: The Microsoft Research
- University of Trento Centre for
Computational and Systems Biology
Oct 16, 2006 - Oct 17, 2006
www.msr-unitn.unitn.it/events/consci06.php
International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology
Italy - TN - Trento - Povo
Hosted By: The Microsoft Research
- University of Trento Centre for
Computational and Systems Biology
Oct 18, 2006 - Oct 19, 2006
www.msr-unitn.unitn.it/events/cmsb06.php
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2006)
United States - UT - Provo
Hosted By: Brigham Young University
Oct 20, 2006 - Oct 21, 2006
www.biotconf.org/
Computational Biology: Networks - The Language of Life
Greece - Crete - Chania
Hosted By: International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2006)
Oct 27, 2006 - Nov 01, 2006
www.iccmse.org/
9th Annual Computational Genomics Conference
United States - MD - Baltimore
Hosted By: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Oct 28, 2006 - Oct 31, 2006
www.conted.vt.edu/genomics/
The 21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '06)
Turkey - Istanbul
Hosted By: Sabanci University
Nov 01, 2006 - Nov 03, 2006
fens.sabanciuniv.edu/iscis06/
Workshop on Surgical Techniques in the Laboratory Mouse
United States - ME - Bar Harbor
Hosted By: The Jackson Laboratory
Nov 05, 2006 - Nov 10, 2006
www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=342&detail=scope
Crop Genomics, Trait Analysis and Breeding
United Kingdom - Hinxton, Cambridge
Hosted By: ESF/Wellcome Trust
Nov 08, 2006 - Nov 11, 2006
www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?section=10&language=0&genericpage=2561
Progress in Systems Biology 2006
Canada - ON - Ottawa
Hosted By: University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada
Nov 09, 2006 - Nov 10, 2006
mededu.med.uottawa.ca/oisb/sympindex.htm
Neural Information Processing Systems 2006
Canada - BC - Vancouver
Hosted By: NIPS Foundation
Dec 04, 2006 - Dec 09, 2006
www.nips.cc
GTCbio's Systems Biology in Drug Discovery Conference
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: GTCbio
Dec 04, 2006 - Dec 06, 2006
www.gtcbio.com
7th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis
(ISBMDA 2006)

Greece - Thessaloniki
Hosted By: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dec 07, 2006 - Dec 08, 2006
isbmda06.med.auth.gr/
American Society for Cell Biology 46th Annual Meeting
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: ASCB
Dec 09, 2006 - Dec 13, 2006
www.ascb.org
Applications of Machine Learning in Medicine and Biology
(Special Session on ICMLA '06)

United States - FL - Orlando
Hosted By: Association for Machine Learning and Applications, California State University Bakersfield, University of Louisville, Florida International University, IEEE SMC
Dec 14, 2006 - Dec 16, 2006
www.cs.csubak.edu/~icmla/icmla06/CFP_SpecialSession1.html
International Symposium On Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
India - Orissa - Bhubaneshwar
Hosted By: Silicon Institute & Orissa
Information Technology Society
Dec 15, 2006 - Dec 17, 2006
www.silicon.ac.in/isbb06/bioinformatics.htm
IEEE ICDM 2006 Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (DMB 2006)
Hong Kong - HK - Hong Kong
Hosted By: IEEE
Dec 18, 2006 - Dec 21, 2006
icdm06.biomap.org/
INCOB 2006 : 5th Intl. Conference on Bioinformatics & Biotechnology
India - New Delhi
Hosted By: IIT D, JNU, Deptt of Biotechnology, Govt of India
Dec 18, 2006 - Dec 20, 2006
www.incob2006.in
Fifth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2007
Hong Kong
Hosted By: University of Hong Kong,
Department of Computer Science
Jan 15, 2007 - Jan 17, 2007
www.cs.hku.hk/apbc2007/

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