From sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org Tue Feb 2 17:31:58 2010 From: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org (Sandra Borthwick) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:31:58 +0000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] SBF event - National Grid Service Training Message-ID: <7f11de471002020931j104555beif3717dd762d0f97c@mail.gmail.com> The Scottish Bioinformatics Forum will be hosting a one-day event on * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *National Grid Service Training* *Date: 9th March 2010, Time: 10:00 am* *Location: NeSC Centre, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * An opportunity to get started with the National Grid Service (NGS), finding out about XML translation for bioinformatics formats including practical sessions. The course at NeSC will cover accessing the facilities of the NGS to run high through put applications across multiple nodes for bioinformatics. Programme and details can be found at http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=87 Early registration is encouraged as numbers are limited. Registration fees are ?20; students can register for a reduced fee of ?10 We look forward to seeing you on 9th March! Kind Regards Sandra -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: +44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. 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Online registration and the provisional programme are available from the symposium web site at: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib2010 This sixth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics has an exciting programme of 25 papers and 4 keynote presentation that 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. The IB Symposium is an important focus for software developers and users of integrative bioinformatics methods and a number of associated tutorials and workshops are being held both before and after the main symposium. A brief of the workshops and tutorials summary is given below. The symposium papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (http://journal.imbio.de) and will be made available in electronic format to registrants as the conference proceedings. Call for Posters and Software Demonstrations Poster and software demonstration sessions will provide an important opportunity for scientists to informally present their work and engage in discussions with others attending the symposium. We are pleased to announce that this year, Cambridge University Press will award a prize for the best poster presented at the meeting. To submit a poster or demonstration request, please visit the symposium web site where further details can be found. Tutorials and Workshops (further details on the provisional programme website) Biological Data Integration and Visualisation for Systems Biology 22nd March 2010 09:30 - 12:00 EMERALD - Enhancing Data Quality 22nd March 2010 10:00 - 12:00 Gene Networks for Bench Scientists Workshop 24th march 14:00 - 17:30 plus 25th march 09:30 - 12:00 Topics of interest to Symposium delegates 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) From sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org Fri Feb 12 11:29:51 2010 From: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org (Sandra Borthwick) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:29:51 +0000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology - July 2010 Message-ID: <7f11de471002120329v47038005uf2ce6de7837600bc@mail.gmail.com> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *The 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BSB20 10) **Date: 12-14 July 2010 **Location: Chongqing, China, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Following the success of its recent editions (CODS/ICABS2007 in Chengdu, SIWN2008 in Glasgow, SIWN2009 in Leipzig), the 2010 Systemics and Informatics World Network (SIWN 2010) will be in Chongqing, China. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Systems Biology is concerned with the system-level study of complex interactions in biological systems and provides a quantitative systemic approach to understanding complex biological phenomena. On the other hand, the ultimate goal for the understanding and modeling of biological systems is at the synthesis and simulation of biological behaviors and functions, across which Bioinformatics plays an important underpinning role. Recent progresses in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology are extraordinarily exciting and are calling for even broader and further deep-stretching interdisciplinary research and collaboration. BSB 2010 aims to provide a premier forum for stimulating exchange and in-depth discussion of advances, challenges and emerging areas in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. * Important Dates* 15 March 2010 Submission of manuscripts 12 April 2010 Notification of acceptance 10 May 2010 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) due 12-14 July 2010 Conferences For further details please go to http://siwn.org.uk/2010/BSB10.htm) Call-for-Paper flyer can be found at http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=88 -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: +44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. 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Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-10, Orlando, USA The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. BCBGC is an important event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields.The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. * International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) * International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) * International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) * International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) * International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) * International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) * International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) * International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) * International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) * International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World? Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining ? all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karen.morris at bbsrc.ac.uk Fri Feb 19 10:00:38 2010 From: karen.morris at bbsrc.ac.uk (karen morris (RRes-Roth)) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:38 +0000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] IB2010 - WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS Message-ID: IB2010 - Integrative Bioinformatics Symposium WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS The 6th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics is being held from 22nd to 24th March 2010 in Churchill College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Online registration, the provisional programme and abstracts of the currently list of accepted posters and demonstrations are available from the symposium web site at: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib2010 This sixth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics has an exciting programme of supporting workshops and tutorials along with demonstrations of new software that will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and other working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Biological Data Integration and Visualisation for Systems Biology 22nd March 2010 09:30 - 12:00 In this tutorial, we provide hands-on experience of a software system called Ondex (www.ondex.org) that is being used in a range of different systems biology projects in the UK. Ondex is an open source data integration platform for the life sciences that enables data from diverse biological data sets to be integrated, visualised as biological networks and interpreted using graph analysis techniques. Ondex has a friendly user-interface that can be used to prepare integrated datasets for data mining and has the ability to bring together information from structured databases and unstructured sources, such as free text. For more information please see programme at http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib2010/Ondex_IB2010.pdf. Alternatively please email contact at ondex.org if you have any further questions or wish to register your attendance at the tutorial. EMERALD - Enhancing Data Quality 22nd March 2010 10:00 - 12:00 The focus of the workshop is to discuss and illustrate the importance of microarray data quality and will sum up the work done by the EU EMERALD project over a three year period. Presentations will highlight efforts on the implementation of quality metrics and standards to and how experience from this project can be applied to new high throughput array technologies. This workshop is freely open to all IB2010 registrants. But, those not registered for the IB2010 conference that only wish to participate at the EMERALD session, please register (for free) by sending an email to vidar.beisvag at ntnu.no at the latest by 11th march 2010. Gene Networks for Bench Scientists Workshop 24th march 14:00 - 17:30 plus 25th march 09:30 - 12:00 This workshop, aimed at lab absed scientists, provides hands-on experience with software tools for Visualization and analysis of expression networks using BioLayout Express3D; Assembly and Modelling of Biological Pathways; Reverse engineering of gene networks using GeneNet and Modelling variability in gene networks using Copasi. In order to register at this workshop, please email Paul Verrier (paul.verrier at bbsrc.ac.uk) Topics of interest to Symposium delegates 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) From colins at hgu.mrc.ac.uk Mon Feb 22 15:00:17 2010 From: colins at hgu.mrc.ac.uk (Colin Semple) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:17 +0000 Subject: [Sbforum-general] MRC PhD Studentships in Computational Biology Message-ID: <4B829C01.8050008@hgu.mrc.ac.uk> MRC PhD Studentships in Computational Biology We are now recruiting bright, ambitious and numerate graduates for studentships within the prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh to begin in September 2010. These studentships are funded at a high level with high quality training, designed to fulfill national requirements for expertise in mathematical biology and statistics. Applications are encouraged from those combining a biological background with experience in computational analysis or from those with a mathematical/computer science background and a keen interest in biology. Possible projects span diverse areas of computational biology including systems biology, statistical genetics, bioinformatics and molecular evolution. However, there will be opportunities for enthusiastic students to develop their own project ideas in conjunction with prospective supervisors. Full details are available at the following URL: http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/vacancies_studentships_section/studentships-in_comp_bio_and_med.html We are seeking applications from numerate graduates who have or expect a degree at honours level 2.1 or higher, who want a career in computational biology or medicine, and who have the ambition to succeed at the highest levels in research. Applications should include a letter explaining why you are interested in this particular postgraduate programme, a full up-to-date CV (including a vacation address), and names and addresses of two academic referees. We ask potential applicants to note that there are eligibility criteria for these studentships relating to nationality, period and purpose of residency in the UK, see: http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/. Recruitment will continue until all places are filled but we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible. General Enquiries: p.mcdonald at hgu.mrc.ac.uk. Academic enquiries: colin.semple at hgu.mrc.ac.uk. -- Dr Colin A. M. Semple Head of Bioinformatics MRC Human Genetics Unit Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 332 2471 x4034 Fax: +44 (0)131 467 8456 Email: Colin.Semple at hgu.mrc.ac.uk Web: http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Users/Colin.Semple/ From jeedward at yahoo.com Mon Feb 22 17:18:11 2010 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:18:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Sbforum-general] Call for papers: BCBGC-10, Orlando, USA, July 2010 Message-ID: <830051.28358.qm@web45909.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, data-mining, and related areas. Call for papers: BCBGC-10, Orlando, USA, July 2010 The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. BCBGC is an important event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) ? International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) ? International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) ? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) ? International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) ? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World? Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining ? all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The course at NeSC will cover accessing the facilities of the NGS to run high through put applications across multiple nodes for bioinformatics. Attendees will launch jobs using command line and GUI interfaces and use some of the pre-installed bioinformatics applications available from the NGS nodes. Also included will be a short introduction to the practicalities of translating bioinformatics formats between XML formats. Programme and details can be found at http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=87 Early registration is encouraged as numbers are limited. Registration fees are ?20; students can register for a reduced fee of ?10 We look forward to seeing you on 9th March! -- Sandra Borthwick, Executive Assistant Scottish Bioinformatics Forum The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Tel: +44 (0)131 240 2783 Fax: +44 (0)131 240 2786 email: sandra.borthwick at sbforum.org www.sbforum.org 10th International Conference on Systems Biology Edinburgh, UK. 10th-15th October 2010 http://www.icsb-2010.net/ The SBF is a project of the RSE Scotland Foundation, Scottish Charity No. SC024636 The information contained in this e-mail is confidential, intended for the above named individual/s and may be legally privileged. This message may contain personal views which are not the views of the Foundation/Forum, unless specifically stated www.rsescotlandfoundation.org.uk www.sbforum.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kemp at chalmers.se Thu Feb 25 15:05:54 2010 From: kemp at chalmers.se (Graham Kemp) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:05:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Sbforum-general] DILS, Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2010, Call for Papers Message-ID: Seventh International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2010) 25-27 August, 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.chalmers.se/cse/dils2010/ The development and increasingly widespread deployment of high throughput experimental methods in the life sciences is giving rise to numerous large, complex and valuable data resources. This foundation of experimental data underpins the systematic study of organisms and diseases, which increasingly depend on the development of models of biological systems. The development of these models often requires integration of diverse experimental data resources; once constructed, the models themselves become data and present new integration challenges for tasks such as interpretation, validation and comparison. Topics of Interest ------------------ The DILS conference provides a forum for the discussion of emerging challenges for data integration in the life sciences, and the techniques that seek to address them. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences - Query processing and optimization for biological data - Biological Data sharing and update propagation - Query formulation assistance for scientists - Modeling of life sciences data - Biological Metadata management - Annotation in scientific data integration - Provenance modeling and management for the life sciences - Scientific Workflows and analysis pipelines - Laboratory information management systems in biology - Biological data quality and data cleaning - Life sciences ontologies - Semantic web for the life sciences - Mining integrated life sciences data - Text mining in the life science literature - Machine learning in data integration in the life sciences - Grid Computing and Grid technologies for the life sciences - System prototypes for biology - Commercial solutions in the life sciences - Integration challenges presented by new kinds of biological data - Scientific results arising from innovative data integration solutions Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor, experience reports and demonstrations of relevance to data integration in the life sciences. DILS 2010 invites two types of papers: - Research papers (up to 16 pages). - System/Demonstration papers (up to 8 pages). Papers describing commercial solutions are welcome as long as sufficient detail of the problem and its technical solution are provided. Please find detailed instructions for preparing the camera-ready copy of your paper in Springer's LNCS Author and Volume Editor Instructions. The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Please submit your paper using the DILS 2010 EasyChair site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2010 Important dates --------------- - Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2010 - Full paper deadline: 18 April 2010 - Author Notification: 17 May 2010 - Camera Ready Copy Due: 7 June 2010 Programme Committee ------------------- - Chris Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Albert Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK - Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Universit?? Paris-Sud, France - Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Christine Froidevaux, Universit?? Paris-Sud, France - Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK - Peter Karp, SRI International, USA - Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Patrick Lambrix, Link??ping University, Sweden - Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universit??t zu Berlin, Germany - Fr??d??rique Lisacek, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland - Bertram Lud??scher, University of California, Davis, USA - Marco Masseroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK - See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore - Jos?? Luis Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal - Alexandra Poulovassilis, Birkbeck College, UK - Erhard Rahm, Universit??t Leipzig, Germany - Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA - Chris Rawlings, Rothamsted Research, UK - Falk Schreiber, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - Michael Schroeder, TU Dresden, Germany - Christopher Southan, ChrisDS Consulting, Sweden - Chris Stoeckert, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Lena Str??mb??ck, Link??ping University, Sweden - Mark Wilkinson, University of British Columbia, Canada - Anil Wipat, University of Newcastle, UK - Hans ??hlfeldt, Link??ping University, Sweden