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The ISCB Spring Newsletter
Boston, Massachusetts
July 11 – 15, 2014
4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis)
URL: www.biovis.net
Date: July 11-12, 2014
BioVis 2014 is the premier venue that brings together the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities to explore the application of visualization research to life science problems and to demonstrate the state of the art in the field. Highlights include
Call for Participation in the 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB 2014. Papers are due March 1 and posters are due by May 24, 2014
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The Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG)
URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org
Date: July 11 & 12, 2014
The mission of the Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG) is to bring together computational biologists, experimental biologists, and biocurators who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product function prediction, to share ideas and create collaborations.
Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: April 18, 2014
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BioLINK SIG: Supporting Bioscience through Text Mining
URL: http://biolinksig.org/biolink-2014/
Date: Friday, July 11 (General BioLINK SIG meeting) & Saturday, July 12 (Special session, joint with BioOntologies: Phenotype Day)
We hope to attract research to this SIG meeting that directly integrates text mining into computational methods addressing biological problems, and will dedicate part of the workshop specifically to the role of text mining for automated function prediction and genetic variant interpretation.
Submissions Deadline: April 11, 2014
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Bio-Ontologies Special Interest Group meeting
URL: www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/
Date: July 11 and July 12
The Bio-Ontologies SIG is a forum to present the most innovative research in the application of ontologies and the organisation, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biomedicine and the life sciences.
We invite three types of submissions. Short papers (4 pages), Posters and Flash updates (1 page), deadline: April 11, 2014
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The 15th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014)
URL: www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2014
Date: July 11-12, 2014
BOSC covers the wide range of open source bioinformatics projects that have been successfully developed and adopted by the community, and encompasses the growing movement of Open Science, with its focus on transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance.
Deadline for submission of abstracts for talks: April 4 and Deadline for submission of abstracts for posters: May 15
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HitSEQ: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
URL: http://hitseq.org/
Date: July 11 & 12, 2014
HiTSeq provides a forum for in depth presentations of novel algorithms, analysis methods, and applications in multiple areas of biology that HTS is transforming.
Full paper submission deadline: April 6, 2014
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Integrative RNA Biology - SIG (IRB-SIG)
www.irbgroup.org/irb-sig-14/
Date: July 11, 2014
In this meeting we aim to bring computational experts attending ISMB together with world experts in the fields of RNA processing and non-coding RNAs to discuss recent advances in RNA biology and related computational and experimental methodology.
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Mass Spectrometry SIG (MS-SIG)
URL: http://igenomed2.stanford.edu/BeyondProteomics_2014/
Date: July 12, 2014
MS-SIG aims to bring together experts from the global research community to discuss current progress and challenges in the field of mass spectrometry based proteomics and computational biology.
Abstract submission deadline is March 14, 2014 and May 12, 2014
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NetBio SIG
URL: http://nrnb.org/netbiosig/
Date: July 11, 2014
The meeting will provide a unique meeting space for tool developers and users in the field of network biology. Through these complementary lenses, the meeting will bring into focus the current state of the field, its future promise and how to get there.
Submission deadline is April 22, 2014
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New Challenges in Computational Single Cell Biology
URL: www.imsb.ethz.ch/researchgroup/mclaassen/Events/ISMB_SIG_CSCB_2014
Date: July 12, 2014
This workshop features keynotes from invited speakers, presentations selected from the submitted abstracts and poster presentations to share the latest results on single cell driven biology, cutting edge technology development and mathematical modeling approaches.
Call for abstracts. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. The best accepted abstracts will be invited for oral presentation.
Abstract submission Deadline is April 30, 2014
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Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group - RegGenSIG
URL: http://light.ece.ohio.edu/~reggen/2014/
Date: July 12, 2014
RegGenSIG is a collaborative community of scientists who convene to solve difficult research problems in all areas of computational regulatory genomics.
Submit abstracts to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Extended abstracts for oral presentation are due by April 20, 2014, and 250 word abstracts for poster presentations are due by May 18, 2014
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VarI-SIG
URL: http://varisig.biofold.org
Date: July 12, 2014
The primary goal of the VarI-SIG is to outline and discuss the recent advances in the methodology for the annotation and analysis of genomic variation data.
Poster and Presentation Proposal deadline April 6, 2014
Satellite Meetings (SMs)
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3Dsig: Structural Bioinformatics & Computational Biophysics
URL: http://bcb.med.usherbrooke.ca/3dsig14
Date: July 11 & 12, 2014
3Dsig, a Satellite Meeting of the ISMB/ECCB conference, focused on structural bioinformatics and computational biophysics and has become the largest meeting in this growing field. This year we are celebrating our 10th meeting and highlighting the 2013 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt & Arieh Warshel, the pioneers of the field.
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2014
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CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
URL: www.camda.info/
Date: Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12 2014
CAMDA presents an open-ended data analysis challenge format which focuses on big heterogeneous data sets that are increasingly produced in several fields of the life sciences.
Call for submissions deadlines: Extended Abstract Proposals: May 20, 2014, Abstract for Posters: May 25, 2014, Full papers: Aug 25, 2014
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| SUBMISSION DATES Late Breaking Research: March 28 Late Posters: March 14 Technology Track: April 25 Art and Science: May 9 |
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Boston, Massachusetts
July 11 – 15, 2014
Register today and join us in Boston for the world's largest annual meeting in computational biology. In over 250 talks and 800 posters learn about the latest developments in the field, network, and help shape the future of computational biology and bioinformatics!
As the premier computational biology conference, ISMB 2014:
Mark your calendars for ISMB 2014 and join us in Boston!
Featured ISMB 2014 Keynote Presenter:
Michal Linial, PhD
Director of the Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology
Department of Biological Chemistry
Institute of Life Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
website: www.ls.huji.ac.il/michall/
| SUBMISSION DATES Posters: Closes March 14, 2014 Technology Track: Closes April 25, 2014 Art and Science: Closes May 9, 2014 |
| ISMB Registration: Registration for ISMB 2014 opens March 24, 2014 |
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Boston, Massachusetts
July 11 – 15, 2014
ISMB 2014 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines:
Submit a poster and join your colleagues representing more than 45 countries to network and collaborate with.
Poster Chair: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark your calendars for ISMB 2014 and join us in Boston!
Featured ISMB 2014 Keynote Presenter:
2014 ISCB Fellows Keynote
Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, and Medicine and Computer Science
Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Stanford University, United States
Presentation Title: TBA
Presentation Time: Tuesday July 15, 5:00 - 6:00
http://helix-web.stanford.edu/people/altman/
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
Don't miss your chance to network, connect and collaborate with your colleagues at these ISCB affiliated conferences!
Registration discounts are available for ISCB members.
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Fifth RECOMB Satellite Conference on Bioinformatics Education (RECOMB-BE)
April 1, 2014
Pittsburgh, PA
The Fifth Annual RECOMB Conference on Bioinformatics Education (RECOMB-BE) will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2014. RECOMB-BE 2014 will focus on bioinformatics education for undergraduate and graduate students, with a special emphasis on students in the life sciences.
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RECOMB 2014
April 2-5, 2014
Pittsburgh, PA
RECOMB 2014 is the eighteenth in a series of well-established scientific conferences bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, statistical and biological sciences. The conference features keynote talks by preeminent scientists in life sciences, proceeding presentations of peer-reviewed research papers in computational biology, and poster sessions on the latest research progress
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Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
April 29 - May 1, 2014
Boston, MA
The 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo plans to unite 2,500+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from 30+ countries. The Expo provides the perfect venue to share information and discuss enabling technologies that are driving biomedical research and the drug development process.
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CHI's Structure-Based Drug Design
May 21-22, 2014
Boston, MA
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Fourteenth Annual Structure-Based Drug Design event will showcase informative, high-quality case studies, innovative techniques, and strategies to move from computation to experiment, and finally, to drug. Top scientists from pharma and biotech will address how they are hitting epigenetic targets, provide updates on the newest wave of GPCRs and other membrane proteins, and discuss the latest in fragment-based drug design.
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4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis)
July 11-12, 2014
Boston, MA
The Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is the premier international and interdisciplinary event for all aspects of visualization in biology. The symposium brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.
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HiTSeq 2014 High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
July 11-12, 2014
Boston, MA
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Fourteenth Annual Structure-Based Drug Design event will showcase informative, high-quality case studies, innovative techniques, and strategies to move from computation to experiment, and finally, to drug. Top scientists from pharma and biotech will address how they are hitting epigenetic targets, provide updates on the newest wave of GPCRs and other membrane proteins, and discuss the latest in fragment-based drug design.
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InCoB2014 - 13th International Conference on Bioinformatics
Jul 31 - August 2, 2014
Sydney, Australia
InCoB has grown in its second decade to become one of the largest bioinformatics conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. This annual conference showcases the latest research and technologies in all areas of bioinformatics, and in recent years has been attended by practitioners from both biology fields and computing backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region.
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ECCB'14, the 13th European Conference on Computational Biology
September 7-10, 2014
Strasbourg, France
ECCB'14 is the key European computational biology event in 2014 gathering scientists working at the intersection of a broad range of disciplines including computer science, mathematics, biology, and medicine. New challenges are emerging today in these fields with the recent advances in low-cost ultra-fast sequencing, bio-imaging and big-data approaches. Databases and software are evolving especially rapidly. Nonetheless, new algorithms are still required to improve computing with massive biological or biomedical data. Indeed, multi-scale integrative analyses are struggling to deal with the enormous complexity of biological systems modeling and the "data deluge" that results from next-generation sequencing technologies.
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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2015
January 4-8, 2015
Koala Coast, HI
PSB 2015 will bring together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations, and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. PSB is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology.
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We look forward to seeing you at some of these conferences and events, enjoying a member benefit discount!
| CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Highlights Track: Closes February 28, 2014 Posters: Closes March 14, 2014 Technology Track: Closes April 25, 2014 Art and Science: Closes May 9, 2014 |
| ISMB Registration: Registration for ISMB 2014 opens March 24, 2014 |
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Boston, Massachusetts
July 11 – 15, 2014
Call for Highlights Track - ISMB 2014
Highlights Deadline: February 28, 2014
Present your research for The Highlights Track, ranked as one of the top three events at ISMB and continues to be one of the most popular conference tracks.
A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the following:
Highlights Track Chairs:
Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg
Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than Friday, April 4!
Mark your calendars for ISMB 2014 and join us in Boston!
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ISCB Member | Non-Member |
| Professional (including Postdoc) | 205 | 375 |
| Student | 125 | 275 |
| Early Registration - Valid AFTER 28 April 2014 |
ISCB Member | Non-Member |
| Professional (including Postdoc) | 255 | 425 |
| Student | 175 | 325 |
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June 2-4, 2014
Barcelona, Spain
The NGS Conference will aim to encompass the associated computational challenges:
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Deadline: 14 March 2014
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May 16 - 18, 2014
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati
GLBIO 2014 will feature dynamic Keynote Speakers and Tutorial sessions led by proven industry experts.
Gary Bader, Associate Professor
The Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto
http://baderlab.org/GaryBader
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Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya/
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Charles Brooks, Warner-Lambert/Park-Davis
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biophysics
University of Michigan
http://brooks.chem.lsa.umich.edu/index.php?page=charles_l._brooks_iii&subdir=articles/group
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Michael Hawrylcz, Investigator
Allen Institute for Brian Science
www.alleninstitute.org/about_us/staff/michael_hawrylycz.html
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GLBIO 2014 will feature dynamic tutorial sessions led by proven industry experts on Friday, May 16.
Sorin Draghici, Wayne State University
Topic: Advanced Gene Network
Anil Jegga, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
Topic: Advanced Gene Network
Jarek Meller, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
Topic: An Introduction to Bioinformatics
Isaac Neuhaus, University of California at San Francisco
Topic: Visualization Web Interface - Javascript for Programmers
Larsson Omberg, Sage Bionetworks
Topic: An Introduction to Sage Synapys Platform
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Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference Cincinnati, Ohio, USA May 16 - 18, 2014 |
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ISCB Latin America Conference on Bioinformatics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22 - 24, 2014 |
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The ISCB 2013 Annual Report!
Through the amazing work of volunteers, ISCB is able to continue to be the world's largest international society for computational biology, bringing its members a plethora of opportunities to network and present their science. The 2013 Annual Report highlights the accomplishments of this great organization.
ISCB Officer and Board of Directors Nominations - Now Open!
ISCB encourages its members to submit nominations for open ISCB Officer positions, Board of Directors, and Student Council Leadership. Nominations will be accepted for Board of Directors until April 18 and ISCB Officers and Student Council Leadership until May 30. Self nominations will not be accepted. Learn more at www.iscb.org/leadership-nominations-and-elections.
ISCB Name Myers and Pe'er 2014 Award Winners
ISCB announced its 201 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist and Overton Prize award winner - Eugene (Gene) Myers and Dana Pe'er.
Captivating Program to be presented at CSHALS
There is still time to join us for the 7th Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences. Four stellar keynote speakers, a tutorial on Enterprise and Scientific Data Sharing using Callimachus, four technology talks, and 18 paper presentations including poster viewing round out the two and half day program.
ISCB Student Council Continues their Article Series in PLOS Computational Biology
Beginning in August 2013, the ISCB Student Council has been writing monthly articles for the ISCB Society Pages in PLOS Computational Biology. The most recent article, Building the Future of Bioinformatics through Student-Facilitated Conferencing, Kayisha Ramdayal, Miranda D. Stobbe, Tarun Mishra, Magali Michaut, January 30, 2014, explores the importance of conference training for students in non-pressure settings.
Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) Continues to Build a Stimulating Program
The upcoming GLBIO 2014 presents a stimulating, strong program. With six pre-conference tutorials, a professional development session, an education panel, and talks and posters highlighting recent scientific work, this conference is a must add to your plans for 2014. Expecting nearly 300 attendees, GLBIO is an excellent opportunity to network, collaborate, and learn!
ISCB Community News
The Community news feature on the ISCB website contains the latest information from the computational biology community. Browse the page for more information about relative conference, current tools, and FASEB news.
Next Generation Sequencing Conference to be Held in Barcelona, Spain
The Next Generation Sequencing Conference 2014 (NGS 2014) is a dedicated meeting on cutting-edge approaches to the processing and analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. This Three-day conference (two-day main meeting with one day tutorial) will bring together some of the best researchers from around the world, honor the late Fred Sanger, and provide opportunities for presentation of YOUR latest research developments. Submit your paper or poster today!
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| Early registration opens -->14 Feb 2014 Submissions Close -->14 Mar 2014 Author Acceptance Notifications -->06 Apr 2014 Early registration closes -->28 Apr 2014 Online registration closes -->26 May 2014 |
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| Early Registration - Valid until 28 April 2014 |
ISCB Member | Non-Member |
| Professional (including Postdoc) | 205 | 375 |
| Student | 125 | 275 |
| Early Registration - Valid AFTER 28 April 2014 |
ISCB Member | Non-Member |
| Professional (including Postdoc) | 255 | 425 |
| Student | 175 | 325 |
| *All prices listed in Euro | ||
June 2-4, 2014
Barcelona, Spain
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
NGS2014 invites submissions for paper presentations and posters.
Papers reporting on original research in all areas of high-throughput sequencing are sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Submit your research now!
Deadline: 14 March 2014
