From drkjroberts from gmail.com Fri Dec 5 17:31:28 2008 From: drkjroberts from gmail.com (Karl Roberts) Date: Fri Dec 5 17:58:55 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Call for Grand Award Judges Message-ID: Hi, I am the Plant Sciences Grand Awards Co-Chair for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to be held May 10-15, 2009 in Reno, Nevada. I am actively seeking individuals to serve as Grand Awards Judges for the upcoming event. The ISEF is the premier world-wide showcase for student researchers from grades 9-12. This year students from 45 different countries compete for over $4 million dollars in cash awards, scholarships and special awards. In order to assure the quality of our winners, we need your help. As professionals in the biological sciences, you provide the knowledge and expertise necessary to choose the absolute best student finalists from among the many excellent research projects at this year's Fair. If you or your collegues are interested in becoming a Grand Awards judge this year, please visit the official ISEF website: http://www.sciserv.org/isef/judges/index.asp or feel to contact me via e-mail at kroberts@pgcc.edu or by phone at (301) 386-7544. Thanks for your consideration, and I hope to hear from you. Karl J. Roberts, Ph.D. Plant Sciences Grand Awards Co-Chair Intel ISEF From Mike.Fursov from gmail.com Sat Dec 13 10:59:08 2008 From: Mike.Fursov from gmail.com (Mikhail Fursov) Date: Sat Dec 13 12:33:34 2008 Subject: [Bionews] UGENE v1.3 released Message-ID: <02dbe5de-7cfd-425c-879b-61b2c390449d@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> UGENE is a free and open-source cross-platform bioinformatics software package. The version 1.3 adds 3 new plugins, prebuilt packages for Fedora and Ubuntu systems and dozens of performance, usability and compatibility improvements. The new plugins are: Workflow Designer: allows to create and run custom computational workflows SITECON: search for Transcription Factor Binding Sites (TFBS) in DNA sequences BioStruct3D: 3D molecular protein and DNA structure viewer for PDB format The complete list of changes can be found here: http://ugene.unipro.ru/changelist.html Link to the site: http://ugene.unipro.ru From gws from ncifcrf.gov Wed Dec 17 10:33:39 2008 From: gws from ncifcrf.gov (Gary Smythers) Date: Wed Dec 17 11:00:07 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Announcement: GenPept 169.0 available Message-ID: <20081217153339.84750A4001@bio1.ncifcrf.gov> This is to announce the availability of release 169.0 of the GenPept(R) (GenBank Gene Products) Database. GenPept is provided in a format similar to that formerly distributed by GenBank(R) under the administration of Intelligenetics Inc. This GenPept release IS _NOT_ AN OFFICIAL RELEASE FROM THE NCBI-GENBANK, but an attempt to provide a data file format compatible with existing software products. This data format is suitable as an input data file for the GCG program genbanktogcg -genpept. Compatibility with other software has not been tested. Site: ftp.ncifcrf.gov Directory: pub/genpept Files: gprel.txt.gz, gpdat.seq.gz, gpdat.fasta.gz Directory: pub/genpept/divisions Files: 1 file for each GenBank file Directory: pub/genpept/updates (daily, cumulative) Files: gpseq_updates.dat.gz Rel. Date: 16-Dec-2008 If you have questions or comments concerning this data, or you experience any difficulty in downloading the data via ftp, please contact: Gary Smythers gws@ncifcrf.gov 301-846-5778 or Bob Stephens bobs@ncifcrf.gov ================================================================ GenPept (R) and GenBank (R) are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the GenBank Gene Products and the GenBank Genetic Sequence Data Banks. From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Thu Dec 18 10:44:43 2008 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Thu Dec 18 11:06:31 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Bioinformatics Education Online Message-ID: <494A6FEB.70708@manchester.ac.uk> Applications are now invited for the March 2009 distance learning courses in Bioinformatics. These modules may be studied either individually, or as elements of the full MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester, UK. The University of Manchester has just been graded as one of the top universities in the UK. The MSc modules follow two themes, Bioinformatics and Computer Science. The Bioinformatics modules are: Introduction to Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists Introduction to Bioinformatics Bioinformatics for Systems Biology Introduction to Microarray Data Analysis Theory and Applications in Bioinformatics The Bioinformatics of Protein Structure The Science of Proteomics Molecular Modelling and Structure-based Drug Design The computing modules are: Introduction to software development in Java Intermediate software development using Java Biocomputing Object-oriented analysis and design with UML Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences You will find further information, including a link to the online application form, here : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk From paolo.romano from istge.it Tue Dec 23 06:29:11 2008 From: paolo.romano from istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Tue Dec 23 14:26:46 2008 Subject: [Bionews] BITS '09: First announcement and preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: <200812231142.mBNBgBln008522@ibm43p.biotech.ist.unige.it> ================================= Apologies, if you're receiving multiple copies ================================= BITS 2009 Sixth Annual Meeting of the Italian Bioinformatics Society 18-20 March 2009, Genova http://bits09.istge.it/ First Announcement and Preliminary Call for Papers The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2009) aims at presenting some of the hottest bioinformatics achievements, as well as a landscape of Italian bioinformatics research. It is also intended to allow young researchers to present their work in a collaborative and supporting atmosphere. BITS 2009 will include keynote lectures, oral communications, posters presentations and tutorials. Social activities will include a welcome reception, a guided tour of the historical city center of Genoa, one of the oldest towns in Italy, and the social dinner. Invited Speakers ? Alex Bateman, Sanger Institute, United Kingdom ? Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany ? Rob Russel, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany ? One more speaker to be confirmed Topics Submitted contributions should address novel bioinformatics methods, algorithms, databases, tools and applications for research and development in one or more of the following domains: - Genomics - Molecular Evolution - Protein structure and function - Proteomics - Transcriptomics - Gene expression - Biological Interaction Networks and Pathways - Systems Biology - In-silico drug design - Clinical Bioinformatics - Bio-ontologies This list is by no means exclusive of any further topics in the field of Bioinformatics. Deadlines - January 20, 2009: Oral communications submission - February 10, 2009: Posters submission - February 13, 2009: Early registration (reduced fee) Instructions Abstracts must be submitted through the BITS 2009 Abstracts submission form (soon available!). All abstracts must be written in English and structured in the following sections: Motivation, Methods, Results. Abstracts' length cannot be greater than 5,000 characters or 4,000 characters (spaces included) when a figure is also included. All accepted contributions will be published in the abstracts' book. Organizers are considering the possibility of identifying an internationally peer-reviewed journal to publish a Supplement including extended versions of best oral communications and posters as full papers. Scientific Committee + D. Bordo, National Cancer Research Institute of Genova + R. Casadio, University of Bologna + M.L. Chiusano, University of Naples + M. Helmer-Citterich, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" + F. Masulli, University of Genoa + L. Milanesi, ITB/CNR, Milan + M. Muselli, IEIIT/CNR, Genoa + E. Pizzi, National Institute of Health, Rome + G. Pesole, Univerity of Bari + P. Romano, National Cancer Research Institute of Genoa Organizing Committee + D. Bordo, National Cancer Research Institute of Genova + F. Masulli, University of Genoa + M. Muselli, IEIIT/CNR, Genoa + P. Romano, National Cancer Research Institute of Genoa Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Genova, Italy http://www.nettab.org/promano/