From ijcbs from isibm.org Tue Feb 3 16:58:44 2009 From: ijcbs from isibm.org (ijcbs@isibm.org) Date: Wed Feb 4 00:07:31 2009 Subject: [Bionews] The Second Call for Papers: IJCBS09 Message-ID: <6CFDE26A1B5A4B3D8E52358772C4E80C@AVOCADO> Apologies if you receive a duplicate copy. ********************************************************** The International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing (IJCBS'09) will take place in Shanghai, China on August 3rd - 6th, 2009. You are invited to submit papers with unpublished original work describing recent advances on all aspects of Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing, including, but not restricted to the following topics: Bioinformatics: Bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio-languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data mining; identification and classification of genes; sequence search and alignment; protein structure prediction and molecular simulation; molecular evolution and phylogeny; functional genomics, proteomics; drug discovery; gene expression analysis; bioinformatics engineering; bio-data visualization; algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio-sets; biomarkers of toxicity; bio-imaging; signaling and computation, genetics and genomics. Systems Biology: Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of cellular and multicellular systems, emergence of properties in complex biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data, prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells, organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug target validation. Intelligent Computing: Machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, agents, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and optimization; feature selection/extraction; ensemble methods; manifold learning theory; artificial life and artificial immune systems; technology to develop artificial components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and scientific principles related to artificial life. Important Dates Workshop/Special Session Proposals: February 1, 2009 Paper Submission (maximum 8 pages with IEEE/CS conference format): February 15, 2009 Notification to Authors: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready, Full Papers: April 5, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication IJCBS09 invites authors to submit papers using the linkhttp://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/submission.html. By submitting your paper to IJCBS'09, you implicitly state that the paper is based on your own original research and that it was not and will not be submitted elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 7 pages with standard IEEE CS formats. All submitted papers should be written in English. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and indexed in EI. Selected papers will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals, including BMC Genomics, International Journal of Data Mining & Bioinformatics, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Supercomputing, International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, IJFIPM and other SCI and PubMed indexed journals. Other Information Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at the conference. The IJCBS'09 will award a number of travel fellowships for students and authors of outstanding papers. Please find conference organization, workshops, special sessions, tutorials, keynotes, paper submission, author instructions and registration information at the IJCBS websitehttp://www.isibm.org/IJCBS. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Joe Zhang (USA) or Dr. Guozheng Li (China) by email ijcbs09@orca.st.usm.edu . IJCBS 2009 Program Committee and Organizing Committee Sponsors/Supporters: ISIBM, NSF, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Chinese Academy of Science and Tongji University in Shanghai From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Tue Feb 3 21:13:08 2009 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Wed Feb 4 00:07:35 2009 Subject: [Bionews] 2 Workshops: Drug Discovery/Cheminformatics; Predictive ADME/Toxicology, Oxford July 2009, Bursary awards available Message-ID: I am posting information on two workshops taking place at Oxford University in July 2009. These 5 day workshops take place in consecutive weeks. The application deadline for the bursaries is February 20, 2009. 20-24 July, 2009 Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications: Virtual screening, structure-based drug design, cheminformatics and molecular modelling supporting drug discovery and design, a Hands-on 5 Day eCheminfo Workshop. Case Study approach including Kinases. http://echeminfo.com/comty_oxfordworkshop09 27-31 July, 2009 Predictive ADMET Workshop: Application of Predictive ADME and Toxicology methods to drug discovery and development, a Hands-on 5 Day eCheminfo Workshop. Case Study Approach on ADME and Tox endpoints and datasets. http://echeminfo.com/comty_oxfordadmet09 Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Bursarys award available (deadline February 20, 2009) facilitated by Barry Hardy eCheminfo Community of Practice A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic participants at each workshop. Please see the eCheminfo website for further information on applications. For further information and questions on the Workshop programs, please contact Dr. Barry Hardy at: barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0170 For registrations, please contact Nicki Douglas, nicki.douglas -[at]- douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0461 From sticher from bioc.uzh.ch Wed Feb 11 11:14:51 2009 From: sticher from bioc.uzh.ch (Patrick Sticher) Date: Wed Feb 11 12:41:02 2009 Subject: [Bionews] First Announcement: 7th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology Message-ID: <4992F97B.10208@bioc.uzh.ch> Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to announce the 7th International NCCR Symposium taking place this September. First Announcement: 7th INTERNATIONAL NCCR SYMPOSIUM ON NEW TRENDS IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY September 7 + 8, 2009 Lecture Hall HG F7, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland This symposium brings together renowned scientists in structural biology from all over the world to exchange their knowledge and current research ideas in an interactive way. The symposium addresses latest developments and perspectives in the areas of membrane proteins, supramolecular assemblies & interactions, as well as in the fields of related technologies. www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2009 The registration slot opens end of March. Online registration will be possible directly from the above mentioned web site. We do hope that this conference is of interest to you and would be pleased to welcome you in Zurich this fall. With best regards, Patrick Sticher _________________________________ Visit the NCCR on the Internet www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch Dr. Patrick Sticher Moser NCCR Scientific Officer Institute of Biochemistry University of Z?rich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Z?rich From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Wed Feb 11 15:28:22 2009 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Wed Feb 11 18:06:21 2009 Subject: [Bionews] CFP - Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare R&D: InnovationWell 2009 InterAction Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09. Bursary Awards available Message-ID: This is the first announcement for this year’s meeting. While it is several months away, deadline for abstract submission is February 28 and the bursary award application deadline is March 31. This annual community of practice meeting is taking place for the fifth time and brings together a unique combination of pharmaceutical and healthcare industry experts, principal investigators and researchers from the academic and government sectors, and leaders from innovative enterprises. The smaller and more intimate meeting format pursued has fostered the type of collaboration not always found at large conferences. Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare R&D InnovationWell 2009 InterAction Meeting October 13-16, 2009 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA Conference Link: http://innovationwell.net/comty_conferences The InnovationWell program will cover discussion of topics in Collaboration, Critical Path Advances in Drug Development, Innovation, Drug and Patient Safety, Knowledge Management in R&D, Translational Medicine, Computational Biology, Predictive ADME, Predictive Toxicology, Metabolomics, Biomarkers, and Systems Biology. Format: Seminars, Roundtables, Presentations, Panel Q&As, Discussions, Break-out Workshops, Web-supported. Evening Poster sessions, networking, social activities. This meeting will take place concurrently with the eCheminfo 2009 Meeting. Call for Papers: Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted by February 28, 2009, and be accompanied by a short biography and photo of the presenting author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific organizing committee will be selected for scheduling on the conference program. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of submitted materials takes place and at the latest by 31 March 2009. Abstracts for posters will continue to be accepted for review through 31 August 2009. Please visit http://www.douglasconnect.com/ for submission guidance. Pre-Conference Workshop, October 12. Advances in Information, Communications and Knowledge Management Support Systems for R&D Bursary Awards Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic investigators at the meeting and workshops. Applicants should be working in an area of research related to drug discovery, development and safety. Application deadline 31 March 2009. Please visit http://innovationwell.net/COMTY_bursarybm09 Contact: Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, InnovationWell Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg 14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. innovationwell - [at]- douglasconnect.com From tekaia from pasteur.fr Thu Feb 19 13:04:02 2009 From: tekaia from pasteur.fr (Fredj Tekaia) Date: Thu Feb 19 14:00:24 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis EMBO course in Hong Kong Message-ID: Call for application to the : Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis course August 17 - August 29, 2009 HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong Course web page: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/BCGA2009.html Course program: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/BCGA2009/ BCGA2009_Prog.html Aim of the course and call for application The main objectives of the course are to familiarize young scientists (Biologists/Computer Scientists/Mathematicians) with bioinformatics and genome data analysis skills and to encourage multi-disciplinarity by introducing: 1- advanced fundamental algorithms in bioinformatics, 2- their application in genome analyses, 3- and recent knowledge acquired from genomes studies and perspectives. The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D and Post-doctoral students, as well as young assistant professors and junior scientists in Public Institutions particularly from Asia, Africa and South America, with background in Mathematics, Statistics, Biology or Computing, who are involved in Bioinformatics and Genomes studies. Duration: Full time from August 17 to August 29, 2009. Location: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Accommodation and social: Acceptance to the course includes free accommodation (double room based) breakfast, lunch and dinner. Application Deadline: April 15, 2009. More information about the course, how to apply and application form can be found at the following web page: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/ BCGA2009.html Organizers/Contact: Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong. Si Lok, Genome Research Center The University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong. Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore - Singapore. Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan. Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris - France. With financial support from: EMBO - Institut Pasteur Paris. From gws from ncifcrf.gov Fri Feb 20 15:49:38 2009 From: gws from ncifcrf.gov (Gary Smythers) Date: Fri Feb 20 18:08:47 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Announcement: GenPept 170.0 available Message-ID: <20090220204939.0445FA4001@bio1.ncifcrf.gov> This is to announce the availability of release 170.0 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: 20-Feb-2009 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 watson from ebi.ac.uk Wed Feb 25 06:05:02 2009 From: watson from ebi.ac.uk (James Watson) Date: Wed Feb 25 09:55:46 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Hands on training at the EBI Message-ID: <49A525DE.60009@ebi.ac.uk> We have a couple of upcoming hands-on training courses being run at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Further details can be found at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/ Title: Programmatic Access: to biological databases (Java) Date: 27-29 April 2009 Venue: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Nr Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK Organisers: Samuel Patient & James Watson Registration Deadline: 30th March 2009 - 12 noon (GMT) Cost: ?50.00 (no travel or accomodation included) Title: A walkthrough EBI Bioinformatics Resources Date: 11-15 May 2009 Venue: Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Organisers: Vicky Schneider & James Watson Registration Deadline: 13th April 2009 - 12 noon (GMT) Cost: This course is a fully residential course, without exception. The course has been signficiantly subsidised to keep costs as low as possible. Included in the registration fee are 4 nights accommodation (11, 12, 13 & 14 May) and all meals and refreshments for the duration of the course. Accommodation is on site at The Wellcome Trust Campus. Single accommodation (limited availability - sold on first come first serve basis) ?400.00, shared accommodation ?270.00 -- James D Watson Scientific Training Officer EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Tel: +44(0)1223 492541 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ Upcoming hands on training courses (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/): 17-20 February 2009: Joint EMBRACE-EBI workshop - Understanding protein structures 16-18 March 2009: Sequence to Genes - Genome Informatics 27-29 April 2009: Programmatic access to biological databases 11-15 May 2009: A Walkthrough EBI Bioinformatics Resources