DREAM8 Challenges Now Open - Submit your work to RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory & Systems Genomics Conference

DREAM8 Challenges are Now Open for Participation!  

During the "Challenge season" spanning from June 10 to September 15, 2013, Sage Bionetworks and DREAM will run the three Challenges described below.  
  1. HPN-DREAM Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenge - Infer the signaling networks in breast cancer cell lines
  2. NIEHS-NCATS-UNC DREAM Toxicogenetics Challenge – Predict individual response to environmental and pharmaceutical chemicals
  3. The Whole-Cell Parameter Estimation DREAM Challenge: Infer the kinetic parameters underlying biological processes in whole cell models
Best performers in the DREAM8 Challenges will be invited to present at the DREAM conference (November 8-12, Toronto, Canada) with travel expenses covered by the Sage/DREAM organizers.

To sign up for a Challenge and access the data sets and descriptions of the DREAM8 Challenges, please go to www.synapse.org/#!Challenges:DREAM8

To learn more about the DREAM project and Sage Bionetworks please go to http://sagebase.org/challenges-overview/

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Submit your work today!

Don't miss your opportunity to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation! Presentations will be selected from among the submitted papers and abstracts.

Register now and join a distinguished listing of Keynote Speakers!

DREAM Challenges
Trey Ideker, Ph.D.
Doug Lauffenburger, Ph.D.
 
Systems Biology
Brenda Andrews, Ph.D.
Levi A. Garraway, Ph.D.
Peter Jackson, Ph.D.
Galit Lahav, Ph.D.
Tony Pawson, Ph.D.
Bernhard Palsson, Ph.D.
Olivier Pourquié, Ph.D.
Peter Sorger, Ph.D.
 
Regulatory Genomics
Ziv Bar-Joseph, Ph.D.
Emmanouil (Manolis) Dermitzakis, Ph.D.
Brenton R. Graveley, Ph.D.
Jason D. Lieb, Ph.D.
Aviv Regev, Ph.D.
Jussi Taipale, Ph.D.
 
Important Dates:

Paper Deadline: June 28

Abstract Deadline: Sept 13

DREAM Challenges Deadline: Sept 15

Early Bird Registration Ends: Oct 11

Register Now and SAVE!