From john.davey at ed.ac.uk Tue Sep 1 16:05:44 2009 From: john.davey at ed.ac.uk (John Davey) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:05:44 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] RAD Sequencing Meeting - 21st October 2009, Edinburgh Message-ID: <5C738B0B-4B28-4CD3-A238-C0B818D08785@ed.ac.uk> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * RAD Sequencing Meeting 21st October 2009, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Edinburgh University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dear all, A meeting on RAD (Restriction-site Associated DNA) Sequencing, a new method for SNP discovery and genetic mapping by sequencing thousands of markers in multiple individuals using next generation DNA sequencing, will be held in Edinburgh on October 21st. The originator of the method, Dr Eric Johnson from the University of Oregon, will be attending the meeting. Dr Johnson published the method last October (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003376) and is developing the method commercially (http://www.floragenex.com). By cutting genomic DNA with a restriction enzyme, it is possible to sequence thousands of markers with high coverage in a single individual using next generation sequencing. By adding a short DNA identifying sequence to the fragments for one individual, it is possible to pool multiple individuals together, sequence them all on one lane of an Illumina Genome Analyzer run, and separate out the sequences for each individual bioinformatically by examining the identifiers. Because each fragment can be sequenced with high coverage, and the fragments from a particular restriction enzyme site can be easily aligned, it is easy to call SNPs in these sequences. If a reference genome is present, it is also easy to identify recombination regions and so produce genetic maps for the sequenced individuals. The meeting is intended to bring together UK researchers who are implementing or are interested in RAD sequencing. There is no charge for attendance. If you would like to attend, please contact John Davey at john.davey at ed.ac.uk . Please feel free to forward this message on to anyone you think may be interested. Best wishes, John Davey -- Bioinformatics Researcher and Support Provider Institute of Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh Post : Room 354 Ashworth Laboratories King's Buildings West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JT UK Email : john.davey at ed.ac.uk Phone : +44 (0) 131 650 7403 Lab : www.nematodes.org -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From urmi.trivedi at ed.ac.uk Wed Sep 2 15:02:31 2009 From: urmi.trivedi at ed.ac.uk (Urmi Trivedi) Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:02:31 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] NextGenBUG February 10, Tuesday noon at University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health Message-ID: Dear all, The next NextGenBUG (next generation sequencing Bioinformatics User Group) will be on 2009, October 6, Tuesday from 12:30-15:30 at Strathcona Hall, University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health Agenda: 1. Assembly reconciliation - Tony Travis 2. Latest developments at the GenePool - new sequencers, more data - Mark Blaxter 3. High-throughput analysis of protein-RNA interactions in yeast - Development of RNA_crosslinking_seq application - Sander Granneman 4. High-throughput analysis of protein-RNA interactions in yeast - Challenges of analyzing RNA_crosslinking_seq Solexa data - Grzegorz Kudla Meeting logistics (parking, etc) and details of other short talks available at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Please add your name to the list at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Note: you have to be registered on the website to edit pages. If you have been working on a next gen sequencing project and would like to talk about it, please add your name to the list at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 If you are not registered to the NextGenBUG mailing list, send an email to majordomo AT lists DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk where the first line of the body is (the subject is ignored): subscribe nextgenbug. You should receive a confirmation email within an hour. Best regards, Urmi -- Urmi Trivedi Sequencing Bioinformatician The Gene Pool Ashworth Laboratories Kings Building's campus University of Edinburgh EH9 3JT Phone: +44 131 650 7403 Fax: +44 131 651 3629 Web: http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From urmi.trivedi at ed.ac.uk Wed Sep 2 15:10:26 2009 From: urmi.trivedi at ed.ac.uk (Urmi Trivedi) Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:10:26 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] NextGenBUG October 6, Tuesday noon at University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, There was a mistake in the subject previously. Sorry about that. The meeting is on October 6th. Best wishes, Urmi -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Urmi Trivedi" To: "nextgenbug at lists.ed.ac.uk" , "sbforum-general at sbforum.org" Cc: Subject: NextGenBUG February 10, Tuesday noon at University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:02:31 +0100 Dear all, The next NextGenBUG (next generation sequencing Bioinformatics User Group) will be on 2009, October 6, Tuesday from 12:30-15:30 at Strathcona Hall, University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health Agenda: 1. Assembly reconciliation - Tony Travis 2. Latest developments at the GenePool - new sequencers, more data - Mark Blaxter 3. High-throughput analysis of protein-RNA interactions in yeast - Development of RNA_crosslinking_seq application - Sander Granneman 4. High-throughput analysis of protein-RNA interactions in yeast - Challenges of analyzing RNA_crosslinking_seq Solexa data - Grzegorz Kudla Meeting logistics (parking, etc) and details of other short talks available at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Please add your name to the list at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Note: you have to be registered on the website to edit pages. If you have been working on a next gen sequencing project and would like to talk about it, please add your name to the list at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 If you are not registered to the NextGenBUG mailing list, send an email to majordomo AT lists DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk where the first line of the body is (the subject is ignored): subscribe nextgenbug. You should receive a confirmation email within an hour. Best regards, Urmi -- Urmi Trivedi Sequencing Bioinformatician The Gene Pool Ashworth Laboratories Kings Building's campus University of Edinburgh EH9 3JT Phone: +44 131 650 7403 Fax: +44 131 651 3629 Web: http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk/ From a.travis at abdn.ac.uk Mon Sep 7 17:27:03 2009 From: a.travis at abdn.ac.uk (Tony Travis) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:27:03 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] NextGenBUG Message-ID: <4AA53457.6090005@abdn.ac.uk> RINH is hosting the tenth NextGenBUG (Next Generation Bioinformatics User Group) meeting - Please add your name to the NextGenBUG Wiki if you want to attend, and let anyone else who might be interested know about the meeting: http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Thanks, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.travis at abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt From jimp at compbio.dundee.ac.uk Wed Sep 9 16:22:15 2009 From: jimp at compbio.dundee.ac.uk (James Procter) Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:22:15 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Fwd: EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data, 3-5 March 2010: Registration is now open In-Reply-To: <0MKv1o-1MjWfO2Hb6-000HP5@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> References: <0MKv1o-1MjWfO2Hb6-000HP5@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> Message-ID: <4AA7C827.7070407@compbio.dundee.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the first EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi, http://www.vizbi.org) 3 - 5 March 2010 at the EMBL's new Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg, Germany The goal of the workshop is to bring together, for the first time, researchers developing and using visualization systems across all areas of biology, including genomics, sequence analysis, macromolecular structures, systems biology, and imaging (including microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging). We have assembled an authoritative list of 29 invited speakers who will present an exciting program, reviewing the state-of-the-art and perspectives in each of these areas. The primary focus will be on visualizing processed and annotated data in their biological context, rather than on processing of raw data. The workshop is limited in the total number participants, and each participant is normally required to present a poster and to give a 'fastforward' presentation about their work (limited to 30 seconds and 1 slide). To apply to join the workshop, please go to http://vizbi.org and submit an abstract and image related to your work. Submissions close on 16 November 2009. Since places are limited, participants will be selected based on the relevance of their work to the goals of the workshop. Notifications of acceptance will be sent within three weeks after the close of submissions. We plan to award a prize for the submitted image that best conveys a strong scientific message in a visually compelling manner. Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested. We hope to see you in Heidelberg next spring! Se?n O'Donoghue, EMBL Jim Procter, University of Dundee Nils Gehlenborg, European Bioinformatics Institute Reinhard Schneider, EMBL If you have any questions about the registration process please contact: Adela Valceanu Conference Officer European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstr. 1 D-69117 Heidelberg Tel: +49-6221-387 8625 Fax: +49-6221-387 8158 Email: valceanu at embl.de For full event listings please visit our website: www.embl.org/events or sign up for our newsletter www.embl.de/events/newsletter From andy.law at roslin.ed.ac.uk Thu Sep 17 11:32:47 2009 From: andy.law at roslin.ed.ac.uk (Andy Law (RI)) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:32:47 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Post looking for a post-holder Message-ID: <051F4028-E637-4ED3-B0AD-1E85995B1A54@roslin.ed.ac.uk> All, Due to a change of circumstances, a post has become available at Roslin. The general aim is to guide the development of a website and data resource pertaining to gene expression in macrophages, our director's pet cell type. The current website is at www.macrophages.com but there is pretty much carte blanche to develop it any which way. The intention is to integrate a large volume of data from array and sequencing studies from macrophages in a variety of states. There is analysis work, database development, website prettification, content management and many other aspects to the job. Knowing something about biology would be very helpful, knowing something about macrophages even more so. If you know of anyone who would be suitable and/or interested then please let me know as soon as possible. Later, Andy -------- Yada, yada, yada... The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336 Disclaimer: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the recipient(s) to whom they are addressed. If you have received it in error, please destroy all copies and inform the sender. From ab at macs.hw.ac.uk Thu Sep 17 15:49:59 2009 From: ab at macs.hw.ac.uk (Albert Burger) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:49:59 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Call for Papers: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS-2009) Message-ID: Title: SWAT4LS Cfp updates: new deadlines and journal supplement *** apologies for multiple postings *** SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences --- Updates --- We are glad to announce that there will be a special issue of the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics dedicated to the SWAT4LS workshop. This is a new open access journal published by BMC and we are confident that the supplement will benefit from the additional exposure and promotion associated with its launch (more information on this journal can be found at http://www.jbiomedsem.com/). The call for this special issue will be open to all the contributors to the SWAT4LS workshop (accepted papers, posters and demos). Authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work, elaborated in the light of the discussion held at the workshop. Workshop proceedings will be published on CEUR. In order to facilitate submissions, we have extended submission deadlines as follows: intention to submit (abstract only): October 5th submission of papers: October 12 submission of posters and demos: October 15 communication of acceptance: October 28 camera ready: November 13 Due to the limited time for reviews, we would ask you to submit an abstract of your paper by October 5th, in order to facilitate assignment of reviews. The lenght of contributions to the workshop has been revised to offer more flexibility: * Submissions for Oral communications should be between 8 and 15 pages. * Posters submissions should be between 2 and 4 pages. * Software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. Finally, we would like to announce that the special issue BMC Bioinformatics dedicated to SWAT4LS-2008 will be published on October 1st (BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 10, Supp 10) --- Call for papers --- ***Location and date Amsterdam, Science Park, November 20th 2009 (http://swat4ls.org/2009/) ***Rationale The adoption of semantic-enabled applications and collaborative social environments is ever more common in the Life Sciences. The Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information resources and collaborative social environments. Altogether the adoption of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences has potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medecine. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of these technologies and tools in biomedical informatics and computational biology. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tools development and applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences. ***Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web o Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL, SKOS,... ) o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools o Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases * Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems for life sciences o Semantic biomedical Web Services o Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems * Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Semantics aware application tools o Semantic collaborative research environments o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios ***Scientific Program The workshop will be interactive and include keynotes, oral presentations, panel discussion and a poster and demo session. The keynote speakers of this edition will be: * Barend Mons (http://www.biosemantics.org/index.php?page=barend-mons ) * Michael Schroeder (http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/schroeder) * Alan Ruttenberg (http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/ruttenberg/ ) ***Scientific Committee (committed so far:) * Christopher J. O. Baker, Department of Computer Science and Applied Statistics, University of Brunswick, Canada * Pedro Barahona, Department of Informatics, New University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal * Liliana Barrio-Alvers, Transinsight GmbH, Dresden, Germany * Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America * Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, School of Computer Science, University of Machester, manchester, United Kingdom * Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States of America * Kei Cheung, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America * Tim Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States of America * Marie-Dominique Devignes, LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France * Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, France * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China * Duncan Hull, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK * C. Maria Keet, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy * Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Jacob Tilman Koehler, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Medical Biology, University of Troms?, Troms?, Norway * Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America * Martin Kuiper, Department of Pathology, Systems Biology group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway * Patrick Lambrix, Department of Computer and Information Science, Link?ping University, Link?ping, Sweden * Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom * M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, United States of America * Stephan Philippi, Institute for Software Technology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany * Marco Roos, Instituut voor Informatica, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, United States of America * Matthias Samwald, DERI, Galway, Ireland, and Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria * Nigam Shah, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford, United States of America * Michael Schr?der, Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany * Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom * Tetsuro Toyoda, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan * Mark D. Wilkinson, iCAPTURE Center, St. Paul Hospital, Vancouver, Canada and the organizers ***Type of contributions The following possible contributions are sought: * Oral communications (regular papers) * Posters * Software demos ***Proceedings All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/). We are finalizing the agreement to have a dedicated special issue on the 2009 edition of swat4ls in an international scientific journal of the BMC group (open access, pubmed indexed). To this end, a special Call will be launched shortly after the workshop, for extended and revised versions of contributions submitted to the workshop and accepted either as oral communication or poster. ***New Deadlines * Intention to submit (abstract only): October 5th * Submission of papers: October 12 * Submission of posters and demos: October 15 * Communication of acceptance: October 28 * Camera ready: November 13 ***Instructions All papers and posters must be in English and must be submitted through the EasyChair review system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls-09 . Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer- reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee. * Submissions for Oral communications should be between 8 and 15 pages. * Posters submissions should be between 2 and 4 pages. * Software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. ***Organization * M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom * Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy * Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK ***More information * http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/ * http://swat4ls.blogspot.com * info at swat4ls.org From k1gharbi at gmail.com Thu Sep 24 14:38:52 2009 From: k1gharbi at gmail.com (Karim Gharbi) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:38:52 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Job Opportunities in Edinburgh Message-ID: <4ABB766C.5090509@gmail.com> Post Titles: GenePool Bioinformaticians (two posts) Salary Range: ?29,704 - ?35,469 Closing Date: 15 October 2009 We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join our dedicated team of bioinformaticians in the GenePool, the University of Edinburgh?s Next-Generation Genomics facility. Two positions are immediately available to (1) maintain and develop the computing infrastructure within the GenePool, manage the data storage and analysis flows for the next-generation sequencing activities, and integrate the GenePool?s computing requirements with the wider grid-computing infrastructures; (2) perform high-quality data analyses, provide bespoke bioinformatics support to the GenePool?s user community and, implement pipelines to streamline data analysis. The GenePool (http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk) is a unique genomics facility based in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the University of Edinburgh. We use state-of-the-art equipment, including Roche 454, Illumina SOLEXA and ABI 3730 instruments, and high performance computers, to deliver cutting-edge DNA sequencing, genotyping, and bioinformatics analyses to academic users across Scotland and throughout the UK. The GenePool has been running for 13 years, in which time we have grown from a staff of one to a staff of ten, and now have a turnover in excess of ?0.5 million per year. We are currently expanding following award of a ?2.4 million grant from the UK MRC to deliver next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to the medical research community. For informal enquiries, please contact the GenePool Scientific Manager, Dr Karim Gharbi, by email (Karim.Gharbi at ed.ac.uk). For further particulars and an application pack, please visit our website (www.jobs.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 131 650 2511, quoting Vacancy Reference Numbers 3011683 and 3011684. -- Dr Karim Gharbi Scientific Manager The GenePool Ashworth Laboratories The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK Phone: +44 (0)131 651 3633 Fax: +44 (0)131 650 7322 From urmi.trivedi at ed.ac.uk Mon Sep 28 13:08:26 2009 From: urmi.trivedi at ed.ac.uk (Urmi Trivedi) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:08:26 +0100 Subject: [Sbforum-general] NextGenBUG October 6, Tuesday noon at University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health - Agenda Updated Message-ID: Dear all, The next NextGenBUG (next generation sequencing Bioinformatics User Group) will be on 2009, October 6, Tuesday from 12:30-16:20 at Strathcona Hall, University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health Agenda: 1. Bringing high-throughput (re-) sequencing into everyday lab work ? Tales from the trenches - Bastein Chevreaux (Author of MIRA - whole genome sequence assembler) 2. Assembly reconciliation - Tony Travis 3. Latest developments at the GenePool - new sequencers, more data - Mark Blaxter 4. High-throughput analysis of protein-RNA interactions in yeast - Development of RNA_crosslinking_seq application - Sander Granneman 5. High-throughput analysis of protein-RNA interactions in yeast - Challenges of analyzing RNA_crosslinking_seq Solexa data - Grzegorz Kudla 6. Annotation tools 7. Strategies for targetted resequencing of small regions in multiple samples 8. Comparison of Velvet against CLC_novo_assemble Meeting logistics (parking, etc) and details of other short talks available at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Please add your name to the list at http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk:16080/nextgenbug/meeting/20091006 Best regards, Urmi -- Urmi Trivedi Sequencing Bioinformatician The Gene Pool Ashworth Laboratories Kings Building's campus University of Edinburgh EH9 3JT Phone: +44 131 650 7403 Fax: +44 131 651 3629 Web: http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From Karim.Gharbi at ed.ac.uk Mon Sep 21 11:21:08 2009 From: Karim.Gharbi at ed.ac.uk (Karim Gharbi) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:21:08 -0000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] Job Opportunities in Edinburgh Message-ID: <4AB7537D.10908@ed.ac.uk> Post Titles: GenePool Bioinformaticians (two posts) Salary Range: ?29,704 - ?35,469 Closing Date: 15 October 2009 We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join our dedicated team of bioinformaticians in the GenePool, the University of Edinburgh?s Next-Generation Genomics facility. Two positions are immediately available to (1) maintain and develop the computing infrastructure within the GenePool, manage the data storage and analysis flows for the next-generation sequencing activities, and integrate the GenePool?s computing requirements with the wider grid-computing infrastructures; (2) perform high-quality data analyses, provide bespoke bioinformatics support to the GenePool?s user community and, implement pipelines to streamline data analysis. The GenePool (http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk) is a unique genomics facility based in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the University of Edinburgh. We use state-of-the-art equipment, including Roche 454, Illumina SOLEXA and ABI 3730 instruments, and high performance computers, to deliver cutting-edge DNA sequencing, genotyping, and bioinformatics analyses to academic users across Scotland and throughout the UK. The GenePool has been running for 13 years, in which time we have grown from a staff of one to a staff of ten, and now have a turnover in excess of ?0.5 million per year. We are currently expanding following award of a ?2.4 million grant from the UK MRC to deliver next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to the medical research community. For informal enquiries, please contact the GenePool Scientific Manager, Dr Karim Gharbi, by email (Karim.Gharbi at ed.ac.uk). For further particulars and an application pack, please visit our website (www.jobs.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 131 650 2511, quoting Vacancy Reference Numbers 3011683 and 3011684. -- Dr Karim Gharbi Scientific Manager The GenePool Ashworth Laboratories The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK Phone: +44 (0)131 650 7489 Fax: +44 (0)131 651 3629 http://genepool.bio.ed.ac.uk/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From karen.morris at bbsrc.ac.uk Thu Sep 24 13:38:19 2009 From: karen.morris at bbsrc.ac.uk (karen morris (RRes-Roth)) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:38:19 -0000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] IB2010 - Integrative Bioinformatics Symposium - Cambridge UK March 2010 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The Integrative Bioinformatics Symposium is being held on 22nd to 24th March 2010 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. web site: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib2010 This sixth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and others working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. There will be opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches, and their practical applications. We are now inviting submission of manuscripts to be considered for presentation at IB2010. The deadline for online submissions is 1st December 2009. Accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (http://journal.imbio.de) which will be available as the printed conference proceedings. To submit a paper, please visit the symposium web site where further details can be found. Topics of interest include: Data integration and knowledge management Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases Combined dry- and wet-lab studies Prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks Genotype-phenotype linkage Protein-protein interactions Integrative microarray modelling and analyses Integrative approaches for drug design Virtual cell modelling Tool integration and workflow systems Computational systems biology Integrative modelling and simulation frameworks Integrative data and text mining approaches Network analysis Data visualisation and visual analytics Further information can be obtained from Paul Verrier (paul.verrier at bbsrc.ac.uk) or Chris Rawlings (chris.rawlings at bbsrc.ac.uk)