From frist from news.cc.umanitoba.ca Mon May 5 17:14:48 2008 From: frist from news.cc.umanitoba.ca (Brian Fristensky) Date: Mon May 5 19:11:14 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Bioinformatics Course: Vancouver area Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------- Genome Canada APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS COURSE Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada July 24 - 30, 2008 --------------------------------------------------- The ACGC introduces biologists to some of the latest methods in bioinformatics, including DNA and protein sequence analysis, automation of data analysis, web services and workflows, and high-throughput genome annotation. The course is led by researchers from the Genome Canada Bioinformatics Platform. Both lectures and extensive hands-on tutorial sessions are included. For full details see: For more information visit the website: http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca/training ________________________________________________________________________________ The project is supported by Genome Alberta and Genome Canada, a not-for-profit organization which is leading Canada's national strategy on genomics with $ 600 million in funding from the federal government. From sas.dnaresearchcentre from gmail.com Mon May 12 06:25:26 2008 From: sas.dnaresearchcentre from gmail.com (DNA Research Centre) Date: Mon May 12 11:59:57 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] SAS AND BIOINFORMATICS TRAINING PROGRAM AT DRC Message-ID: <8dd70f82-6df4-4369-b8de-8ea135346dc6@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> DNA Research Centre and Axis group announces new batches for different Modules in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, and Recombinant DNA Technology. DRC proudly announces its involvement in DNA Forensics and Biotechnology Research. We have updated all the projects available with us and providing more challenging, live and industrial projects with different module of training programmes. DRC are privileged members of ABLE, BCIL, FQS, USP Brazil, Bode Tech Lorton, U.S.A etc and dealing with the companies like Beta Genetics and Face key for a wide range of services. DRC has been contacted by A.P govt. for a fingerprinting and data mining cum data basing project for stopping fraud of Ration cards and work is in progress. DRC has developed different range of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology projects, some of them include EST data basing for Fruit fly, Human genome project (Cell markers data basing) etc . BASIC MODULE Course duration: (30 Days) CORE MODULE (Course duration: 45 days) ELECTIVE MODULE (Course duration 60 days) ADVANCE MODULE: (Course duration: 90 days) FOUNDATION MODULE Course Duration: (180 days) 30 Days Specialized Courses IMMUNOINFORMATICS: METABOLOMICS: PATTERN RECOGNITION IN BIOLOGY: PHARMACOINFORMATICS: MEDICAL AND CLINICAL INFORMATICS: CHEMIOINFORMATICS/CHEMICAL INFORMATICS WET LABS TECHNOQUES AND MODULES @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE Proficiency in Microbial Biotechnology Proficiency in Recombinat DNA Technology Proficiency in Enzymology Proficiency in Immunotechnology Proficiency in Plant Tissue Culture Preparation of culture media: Proficiency in Industrial Microbiology Proficiency in Clinical Microbiology Microbial Biotechnology Applied Techniques SAS CLINICAL TRIALS (45 DAYS) SAS PROTEOMICS (45 DAYS) SAS GENOMICS (45 DAYS) DNA FORENSICS (45/90 DAYS COURSE) ONLINE TRAININGS WITH DNA RESEARCH CENTRE All the listed trainings except the wetlab Practicals are available via Online Mode via our web based facilities. For details about the Guides available call or write to us. SHORT DURATION COURSES @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE ONLY PROJECT COMPLETION (WITHOUT TRAINING) : Upto 30 days @ 4750/- DIPLOMA FOR 3,6 AND 9 MONTHS (Can be pursued Live or online) *DRC Courseware (Study materials) are made available for both online and live trainees. All the listed trainings except the wetlab Practicals are available via Online Mode via our web based facilities. *Courses for one week and 20days are available, for details email or call us. UPCOMING BATCHES: 4th Feb 2008 (3 vacancies left) 11th feb 2008 25th feb 2008 10th March 2008 24th March 2008 7th April 2008 21st April 2008 5th May 2008 19th May 2008 26th May 2008 2nd june 2008 16th june 2008 23rd june 2008 14th July 2008 4th August 2008 Note: Registration open till June 2008 batches. There are 3 Scholerships Available Per Batch which may served on first come first serve basis. (15 Members per batch) Conatct Addresses Administrative office: DNA Research Centre 12-13-1249, 1st floor Besdies Andhra Bank Tarnaka -500017 Hyderabad (India) Dept of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Address: DNA Research Centre 12-8-259/1 103, Near Aaiyappa Temple Mettuguda Hyderabad-500017 National Enquiries : dnaresearchcentre@gmail.com (Molecular Biology, Wetlab Enquiries, Bioinformatics) DNA forensics enquiries: dnaresearchcentre@hotmail.com SAS Enquiries: mailto:sas.dnaresearchcentre@gmail.com All Inernational Enquiries:dnaresearchcentre@yahoo.com Registration are open for Bhubneshwar and Chandigarh Branches as well. Website: www.dnares.in Online Registeration: http://dnares.in/online-registration.asp List Of trainings and Projecs: http://dnares.in/trainings.asp Phone: +91-40-40180502/91-9247438983 Bhubneshwar Campus: DNA Research Centre bioAxis building 516/1749 (P), KIIT Square Left to TCS Villa Bhubneshwar -751024 Contact Number :+91-674-6546502 +91-9238338983 (Mr Satyajeet) Email: mailto:drc.bbsr@gmail.com Chandigarh Campus: DNA Research Centre bioAxis building Chandigarh Ambala Road Zirakpur Chandigarh Contact number:+91-9780105813 Email: mailto:chandigarh@bioaxis.in From zaiane from cs.ualberta.ca Thu May 15 11:29:48 2008 From: zaiane from cs.ualberta.ca (Osmar R. Zaiane) Date: Thu May 15 12:57:47 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Final CFP: WebKDD 08 - Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (deadline May 23) Message-ID: <20080515102948.C905@cs.ualberta.ca> Apologies for multiple postings ====================================================================== WEBKDD'08 - 10 Years of Knowledge Discovery on the Web August 24, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS URL: http://webmining.spd.louisville.edu/webkdd08/ At the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008) August 24-27, 2008, Las Vegas, USA ====================================================================== Submission deadline extended by 7 days. Important dates =============== o May 23, 2008: Submission of full papers (new date) o June 13, 2008: Author notification o June 20, 2008: Submission of Camera-ready papers (hard deadline) o August 24, 2008: Workshop at ACM SIGKDD, Las Vegas, USA ====================================================================== Yahoo! Best Paper Award for Web Mining: Through a peer-review process that includes the workshop organizing and program committees, a best paper will be selected based technical quality, innovativeness, and contribution to the field. The authors of the best paper will receive a $500 USD prize supported by Yahoo! Research. ====================================================================== The Web presents a key driving force for a large spectrum of applications in which a user interacts with a company, a governmental authority, a non-governmental organization or other non-profit institution or other users. User preferences and expectations, together with usage patterns, form the basis for personalized, user-friendly and optimal services. Key metrics enabled by proper data capture and processing are essential to run an effective business or service. Enabling technologies include data mining, scalable warehousing and preprocessing, sequence discovery, real time processing, document classification, user modeling and quality evaluation models for them. Recipient technologies that demand for user profiling and usage patterns include recommendation systems, Web analytics applications, application servers coupled with content management systems and fraud detectors. Research advances associated with knowledge discovery on the Web observe the Web as a social medium for exchange and cooperation, as a semantic network where people find information and contribute information (by means of documents, annotations and comments) and as a place for doing business, launching business and promoting business. WEBKDD 2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners on these aspects of the Web. The emphasis is on lessons learned, recent advances and open issues for the next decade. WEBKDD 2008 will be the 10th anniversary workshop on knowledge discovery on the Web, taking place at the KDD since 1999. WebKDD presentations have historically been of high quality and influence, and workshops have in the past attracted not only audience from academia, but also a significant audience from industry and government agencies. Altogether, the papers at the past WEBKDD workshops have accumulated about 940 citations, including 7 patent citations that cite the workshop as the premier reference on the topic of Web usage analysis. (The citations are from Google Scholar, accessed between Feb. 10 and Feb. 12, 2008.) In WEBKDD 2008, we anticipate a wrap-up and lessons-learned from 10 years of research on mining the Web, the Semantic Web(s) and the social Web and a research agenda for the years to come. Workshop Topics =============== The WEBKDD 2008 workshop will invite contributions on mining of all aspects of users' activities in the Web, in particular: - Mining server log (clickstream) data - Web analytics - Web content and structure mining - Modeling users and their interaction with the Web - Mining query log data and web search result mining - Mining users' activities in social venues, ranging from chat fora with emphasis on interaction, to recommendation networks with emphasis on spread of influence - Mining users' activities in venues that foster the capturing of data semantics, e.g. for building the Semantic Web or for the building of folksonomies - web community mining and social network analysis - Enabling technologies for Web mining, including technologies for Web warehousing, data preparation, management of multi-relational data and streams, visualization, and evaluation - Application areas, including recommendation engines, Web communities, Web marketplaces, Web search, Web security and misuse and abuse of the Web and its services. Paper Submission ================ All submissions must be made electronically following the submission information on the Workshop Web site: http://webmining.spd.louisville.edu/webkdd08/ Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of Springer LNCS which can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Papers should be no longer than 12 pages (or 5,000 words) inclusive of all references and figures. All papers must be submitted in either PDF (preferred) or postscript. Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original, and have not been published elsewhere. Exceptionally, paper submitted to KDD 2008 can also be submitted to WebKDD2008 but must be withdrawn if accepted at KDD 2008. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Note Series (LNCS) with the title "Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis" (under negotiation). It will be distributed during the workshop. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery for a special issue that serve as a wrap up of the most recent developments in Web Mining (under negotiation). Organizing Committee of WebKDD'08: ================================================================ Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville, USA Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada Program Committee of WebKDD'08: ================================================================ T.B.A. From imecs_2008 from iaeng.org Thu May 15 12:02:26 2008 From: imecs_2008 from iaeng.org (imecs_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Thu May 15 16:54:47 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Call for Papers: International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies (ICIMT 2008) Message-ID: <854789ca-bc2e-4fed-8ba4-e6b71191f0a2@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> Call for Papers: International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies (ICIMT 2008) From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG) San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008 http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/ICIMT2008.html The conference ICIMT'08 is held under the World Congress on Engineering 2008. The WCECS 2008 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. Our last IAENG conference has attracted more than one thousand participants from over 50 countries, and our IAENG conference committees have been formed with over two hundred committee members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Yale etc. All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-98671-0-2). The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. Revised and expanded version of the selected papers may also be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books under the framework of cooperation between IAENG and Springer, and between IAENG and America Institute of Physics. For reference, the following post conference edited books of our recent IAENG 2007 conferences: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis, have been published by Springer. Important Dates: Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 2 July, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers Due & Registration Deadline: 30 July, 2008 WCECS 2008: 22-24 October, 2008 The topics of the ICIMT'08 include, but not limited to, the following: Internet Systems and Tools: Internet Architectures Web and Internet Tools Web Design Web methodologies Internet based knowledge engineering Distributed computing environments Architectures for internet and intranets Java, Corba, XML Security Aspects Privacy Cryptology Mobile Internet Internet Search Technologies Optimization Techniques Protection and Security Privacy Fault Tolerance Internet Computing Parallel and Distributed Processing Java based Applications for Web Software Agents Expert Systems Knowledge-based Systems Computer Vision Multimedia Information Systems: Multimedia Tools and Architectures Multimedia Broadcasting Systems on the Web Operating System Support for Multimedia Multimedia Communication Systems Multimedia Networking Distributed Multimedia Systems Content-based Multimedia Retrieval Multimedia Performance and Management Mobile Multimedia Video-on-Demand Digital Video Broadcasting IP based Networks ATM Networks Transport Protocols Routing Protocols Quality of Service Scheduling Resource Management Networked Multiplayer Games Multimedia Technologies and Games Game Architecture and Development Graphics and Virtual Worlds Internet-based Multiplayer Games Sound technologies Image technologies Virtual reality Virtual factory Computer vision Mobile communications Image and scene analysis Coding Multidimensional systems Monitoring Supervision Software and Data Management: Simulation Tools Software maintenance Software metrics Reusability Reliability Intelligent agents Database Management Systems Databases and the Web Intelligent Databases Multimedia Databases Data mining Object-oriented methodologies Data warehousing Digital Libraries Data Modelling Database Ontology Coding and Compression Digital Watermarking Video Storage Servers Information Retrieval Collaborative Systems: Educational Multimedia Distributed Learning Collaborative Learning Collaborative Systems and Applications Virtual Reality Video Conferencing Computer Animation Human-Computer Interfaces Modelling and Simulation Applications: Electronic Commerce Mobile Commerce Internet Banking Business Medicine Engineering Education Entertainment Others ICIMT Conference Committee: Prof. Shu-Ching Chen Associate Professor and Director, Distributed Multimedia Information System Laboratory; Associate Director, The Center for Advanced Distributed System Engineering, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, USA Prof. Xu Du Associate professor in Electronics and Information Engineering Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Prof. Irene Yu-Hua Gu Professor, Signal Processing Group, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Former Associate Editor, IEEE transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; Chair-Elect, Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2004, IEEE Swedish Signal Processing Chapter, Sweden Prof. Huiping Guo Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University at Los Angeles, USA Prof. Jiun-Long Huang Assistant proferssor, Computer Science Department, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Prof. Ching-Cheng Lee (co-chair) Professor and Dean of Information Technology, Olivet University, USA ; Adjunct Professor in computer science at California State University at East Bay Prof. Layuan Li Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, China; Editor in Chief of the Journal of Wuhan University of Technology Prof. Ming Li Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Fresno, USA Prof. George Meghabghab Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Roane State, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA Prof. Xiaojun Qi Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Utah State University, USA Prof. Robbie De Sutter Professor of Electronics/ICT - Multimedia and Information Technology, University College West Flanders - Association Ghent University, Belgium Dr. Gang Wu Research Software Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, USA Prof. Zhongfei Mark Zhang Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Binghamton University, USA WCECS Congress Co-chairs Prof. Craig Douglas (WCECS Keynote Speaker & Co-chair) Professor of Computer Science & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky Senior Research Scientist (corresponding to nonteaching full professor) Computer Science Department, Yale University, USA Prof. Warren S. Grundfest, Fellow, AIMBE, SPIE (WCECS co-chair) Co-Chair, Biomedical Engineering IDP Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Surgery The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles, USA Former Chair, SPIE Health Care Engineering & Technology Policy Former Vice Chair, Health Care Engineering Policy Committee, IEEE Prof. Lee Schruben, Ph.D. Yale (WCECS & ICMSC co-chair) Professor and Former Department Chairman Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, USA Prof. Jon Burgstone (ICIMT honorary co-chair) Faculty Chair Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley, USA Board Member of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Harvard University Prof. Su-Shing Chen, Fellow, SPIE (ICCB honorary co-chair) Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, USA; Principal Investigator of Systems Biology Laboratory, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB); Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Benjamin Friedlander, FIEEE (ICCST honorary co-chair) Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA The IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) Former Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society Former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control Prof. Burghard B. Rieger (ICMLDA honorary co-chair) Professor of Computational Linguistics Former Dean (1999-2001) of Faculty of Languages and Literature Former Head of Department of Linguistic Computing, University of Trier, Germany President (1989-93) of the German Society for Linguistic Computing (GLDV) Vice-President (1990-94) of the International Society for Terminoly and Knowledge Engineering (GTW) Prof. Lei Xu (ICSCA honorary co-chair) IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow, Member of European Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong WCECS Submissions: WCECS 2008 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to WCECS { at }iaeng.org by 2 July, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCECS congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues (for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/). It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCECS congress. More details about the WCECS 2008 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.com/WCECS2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/WCECS2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html http://www.newswood.org/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com Other Engineering Letters web sites at: http://www.engineeringletters.net http://www.engineeringletter.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues. From hra from pixel.cviog.uga.edu Sat May 17 09:56:12 2008 From: hra from pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Date: Sat May 17 13:34:35 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Call For Papers: Extended deadline: June 1, 2008 - WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (CS and CE Conferences - July 2008, USA) Message-ID: <20080517145612.146BB22457BE@pixel.cviog.uga.edu> Call For Papers - Deadline: June 1, 2008 WORLDCOMP'08 The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below.) WORLDCOMP'08 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008. See http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ for the complete list of joint-conferences. This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition of the conference proceedings. All papers submitted in response to this announcement will be evaluated for publication in the Final Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon after the conference (publication date: late August 2008). This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements (authors who have already been notified that their papers have been accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.) IMPORTANT DATES: June 1, 2008: Submission of full papers (less than 8 pages) June 14, 2008: Notification of acceptance June 27, 2008: Registration July 14-17, 2008: WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (all joint-conferences) July 20, 2008: Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication in the Final Edition of the proceedings. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to hra@cs.uga.edu (no more than 7 pages, single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable). Authors should write the following in the subject header of their email: "Submission for Consideration in Final Edition of Proceedings" + name of conference that the paper is being submitted to. Papers should be attached to emails and must be either in Word Doc or PDF formats. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also include the name of the conference the paper is being submitted to (the list of conferences appears below.) Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the respective proceedings/books. All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The authors of accepted papers will later be asked to follow a particular typing instructions to prepare their final paper for publication. LIST OF CONFERENCES: PDPTA: Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications GCA: Grid Computing and Applications CDES: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design CSC: Scientific Computing ICAI: Artificial Intelligence GEM: Genetic and Evolutionary Methods MLMTA: Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications BIOCOMP: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology SERP: Software Engineering Research and Practice ICWN: Wireless Networks IPCV: Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition MSV: Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods CGVR: Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality ICOMP: Internet Computing SWWS: Semantic Web and Web Services SAM: Security and Management DMIN: Data Mining IKE: Information and Knowledge Engineering EEE: e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government ESA: Embedded Systems and Applications FECS: Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering FCS: Foundations of Computer Science CIC: Communications in Computing PLANNED TUTORIALS: See the following web site for a partial list: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/tutorials KEYNOTE LECTURES: See the following web site for a partial list: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/keynotes LOCATION OF CONFERENCE: WORLDCOMP will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions. SPONSORS: Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) --> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA --> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine --> Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA --> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA --> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA --> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA --> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA --> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and MIT, USA --> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA --> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA --> Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program George Mason University, Virginia, USA --> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA --> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, Iowa, USA --> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA --> PSU - Prince Sultan University --> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. --> NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Vienna Corporate Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) --> Google, Inc. --> Salford Systems --> Synplicity --> NIIT Technologies Other Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) --> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano) --> International Technology Institute (ITI) --> GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization, Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT --> HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing --> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK