From owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Jul 8 09:58:06 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 66A6A17B29 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A568A17B30 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:51 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6018) id 4C91D17B0A; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3493B17A93 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:00:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from ashd1-2.relay.mail.uu.net (ashd1-2.relay.mail.uu.net [199.171.54.246]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C15F17A80 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:00:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from vixen.cso.uiuc.edu by mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.49]) id QQmvyq15736 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:00:23 GMT Received: by vixen.cso.uiuc.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id PAA18479; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:57:49 -0500 (CDT) To: bionet-software-www@moderators.isc.org Message-ID: <3D2365E4.2030902@ks.uiuc.edu> From: BioCoRE Reply-To: biocore@ks.uiuc.edu, biocore@ks.uiuc.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: bionet.software.www Subject: JMV Molecular Viewer Support within BioCoRE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@uiuc.edu X-Trace: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu 1025729868 130.126.120.239 (Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:57:48 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:57:48 CDT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:09 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: 465cd2731af5a810258082f8d178baba0ba7ae39 Sender: owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk JMV Molecular Viewer Support within BioCoRE July 3, 2002: Urbana, Illinois - The Theoretical Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois is proud to announce an exciting new feature of BioCoRE, a Biological Collaborative Research Environment. BioCoRE is freely accessible at the Theoretical Biophysics Group website and development is supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources. JMV version 1.0 can now be accessed from within BioCoRE. JMV, a molecular viewer written using Java and Java 3D, can be used to view molecular files stored within the BioFS, BioCoRE's shared filesystem. JMV provides several molecular representations, multiple coloring styles, lighting controls, and stereoscopic rendering capabilities. Version 1.0 of JMV is currently only available within BioCoRE, and a standalone release is upcoming. In addition, several other BioCoRE components have seen key improvements recently: * The BioCoRE Control Panel can now be run as a standalone Java application using Java Web Start. This frees users from the constraints of running the Control Panel as a Java applet, which allows increased flexibility and improved robustness since browser crashes no longer kill the Control Panel. * Improved overall "look and feel". The BioCoRE web pages no longer rely on Javascript menus. This makes pages load faster and provides compatibility with more browsers. * Users can save JPEG files of states from VMD into BioCoRE automatically. This allows researchers to browse states visually and load desired configurations directly into VMD. * You can now create Interactive accounts within Job Management. Interactive accounts allow BioCoRE to submit jobs to any computer that you can log into via SSH. This can be used to run jobs on machines that BioCoRE doesn't officially support yet. (BioCoRE has built in support for machines at PSC, NCSA and Globus sites using the Alliance certificates) * BioCoRE job management can now upload files to the remote supercomputer center of your choice before submitting a job. This allows researchers to keep their input files in the BioCoRE shared filesystem and let BioCoRE automatically stage the files. For details, please visit the BioCoRE website at . The Theoretical Biophysics group encourages BioCoRE users to be closely involved in the development process through reporting bugs, contributing fixes, periodical surveys and via other means. Questions or comments may be directed to biocore@ks.uiuc.edu. We are eager to hear from you, and thank you for using our software! From owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Jul 8 09:58:34 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id CFD0A17B1F for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:58:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB80517B38 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:58:17 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6018) id BC54317B0F; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6216217B8F for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:26:20 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id F049117B66; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:26:15 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-software-www@net.bio.net From: pirmail@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu (Pirmail) Newsgroups: bionet.software.www Subject: Announcing PIR-NREF: a comprehensive and non-redundant reference protein sequence database for full-scale or species-based protein identification Organization: National Biomedical Research Foundation Message-ID: <3D25AC0D.C313F776@nbrf.georgetown.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F5317B8F for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:26:12 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from nbrf.georgetown.edu (nbrf.georgetown.edu [141.161.237.70]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9404017B66 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:26:08 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from nbrf1.nbrfnet.georgetown.edu by NBRF.Georgetown.Edu (PMDF V5.2-31 #34596) with ESMTP id <01KJQDN102MO9TDUIM@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu> for bio-www@net.bio.net; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:24:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Received: from NBRF1/SpoolDir by nbrf1.nbrfnet.georgetown.edu (Mercury 1.48) ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:24:47 -0500 X-Received: from SpoolDir by NBRF1 (Mercury 1.48); Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:24:17 -0500 X-Received: from nbrf.georgetown.edu (141.161.237.192) by nbrf1.nbrfnet.georgetown.edu (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:24:14 -0500 X-To: bio-www@net.bio.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:39 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: 4e7956005325c9b0c18ba7ebbc4f64d13bef6ee4 Sender: owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk *********************************************************** ANNOUNCING PIR-NREF Containing 968,861 non-redundant protein sequences http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/pirnref.shtml *********************************************************** The Protein Information Resource (PIR) is pleased to announce the release of NREF (Non-redundant REFerence) Protein Database at: http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/pirnref.shtml The PIR-NREF provides a timely and comprehensive collection of all protein sequence data from PIR-PSD, Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, RefSeq, GenPept, and PDB, with source attribution and minimal redundancy. Identical sequences from the same source organism (species) reported in different databases are presented as a single NREF entry with protein IDs and names from each underlying database, in addition to protein sequence, taxonomy, and composite bibliography. The web site provides direct entry retrieval (based on protein IDs). text search (protein or species names), and sequence search (BLAST, peptide match, and pattern match) for full-scale and species-based protein identification. Species-based browsing and searching are supported for about 100 organisms, which includes over 70 complete genomes. The NREF is updated biweekly and available for free downloading and redistribution in XML format (data file) and FASTA format (sequence file) from our FTP site at: ftp://nbrfa.georgetown.edu/pir_databases/nref/ Please contact Cathy Wu at pirmail@georgetown.edu with any comments or suggestions. The work is supported in part by NIH Grant# P41 LM05798 --- From owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Jul 8 09:59:05 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 6767317B47 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:58:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B109517B44 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:58:50 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6018) id 4526B17B2D; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7AA17B51 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:20:33 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id E793617B69; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:20:25 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-software-www@net.bio.net From: pirmail@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu (Pirmail) Newsgroups: bionet.software.www Subject: Announcing iProClass Release 2.0: An integrated, value-added database of protein information Organization: National Biomedical Research Foundation Message-ID: <3D25AA9D.B19B2A@nbrf.georgetown.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F66617B51 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:20:21 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from nbrf.georgetown.edu (nbrf.georgetown.edu [141.161.237.70]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B76117A85 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:20:05 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from nbrf1.nbrfnet.georgetown.edu by NBRF.Georgetown.Edu (PMDF V5.2-31 #34596) with ESMTP id <01KJQDFG3RV49TDU49@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu> for bio-www@net.bio.net; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:18:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Received: from NBRF1/SpoolDir by nbrf1.nbrfnet.georgetown.edu (Mercury 1.48) ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:18:41 -0500 X-Received: from SpoolDir by NBRF1 (Mercury 1.48); Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:18:11 -0500 X-Received: from nbrf.georgetown.edu (141.161.237.192) by nbrf1.nbrfnet.georgetown.edu (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:18:06 -0500 X-To: bio-www@net.bio.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:57:47 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: 4252c5f03ca4134b195092e53316209c55c30f1c Sender: owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk *********************************************************** Announcing iProClass Release 2.0 An Integrated, Value-Added Database of Protein Information Containing 809,717 Sequence Entries http://pir.georgetown.edu/iproclass *********************************************************** The Protein Information Resource (PIR) is pleased to announce release 2.0 of iProClass, an integrated resource for exploration of protein information. The database provides comprehensive family relationships and functional and structural features of proteins summarized from many sources for all PIR-PSD, Swiss-Prot, and TrEMBL sequences, with rich links to over 50 biological databases. The proteins are organized with more than 36,000 superfamilies, 145,000 families, 3700 domains, 1300 motifs, and 550,000 FASTA similarity clusters. The cross-referenced databases include: - Protein Sequences: PIR-PSD, PIR-NREF, Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, GenPept, RefSeq - Protein Families: Pfam, PROSITE, BLOCKS, COG, InterPro, MetaFam - Genes and Genomes: GenBank, LocusLink, TIGR, SGD, GDB, OMIM, et al. - Structures and Structural Classes: PDB, SCOP, CATH, PDBSum, MMDB, FSSP - Enzymes and Pathways: EC-IUBMB, KEGG, WIT, BRENDA, MetaCyc - Protein Interactions: DIP, BIND - Post-Translational Modifications: RESID, Phosphorylation Site DB - Protein Expressions/Proteomes: PMG - Ontologies: GO - Literature: PubMed - Taxonomy: NCBI Taxonomy iProClass is freely accessible for sequence searching or text retrieval from more than 50 fields (see examples below). Both protein and superfamily reports provide detailed descriptions with graphical domain and motif display. Lists of proteins and superfamilies returned by BLAST/SSEARCH search, peptide match, or text search are shown with one-line summaries. Protein Report: http://pir.georgetown.edu/cgi-bin/ipcEntry?id=A31997 Superfamily Report: http://pir.georgetown.edu/cgi-bin/ipcSF?id=SF000130 BLAST/SSEARCH Sequence Search Result (List): http://pir.georgetown.edu/iproclass/BLASTex.html Peptide Match Result (List): http://pir.georgetown.edu/iproclass/PEPTIDEex.html Text Search Result (List): http://pir.georgetown.edu/iproclass/TEXTex.html To obtain a downloadable copy of iProClass or to establish reciprocal links or mirror sites, please contact Cathy Wu at wuc@georgetown.edu. Your comments and feedback are most welcome. The work is supported in part by NSF grant# DBI-9974855 and NIH grant# P41-LM05798. --- From owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Jul 11 11:31:40 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 0253B17AFB for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:31:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE4017B30 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:31:27 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6018) id 73F9317A75; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:31:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E6817BDB for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:49:03 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 4DD5717BCA; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:48:55 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-software-www@net.bio.net From: softberry@softberry.com Newsgroups: bionet.software.www Subject: TSSP - Plant Promoter Identification program/ RegSite DB Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: <1026326927.3d2c818f53151@webmail.acedsl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850F417BDB for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:48:51 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from elephant.acecape.com (elephant.acecape.com [66.114.74.5]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C5117A8B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:48:48 +0100 (BST) X-Received: (from aceprod@localhost) by elephant.acecape.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g6AImlP81469 for bio-www@net.bio.net; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:48:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from softberry@softberry.com) X-Authentication-Warning: elephant.acecape.com: aceprod set sender to softberry@softberry.com using -f X-Received: from 209.110.158.1 ( [209.110.158.1]) as user softberry_softberry_com@pop.acecape.com by webmail.acedsl.com with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:48:47 -0400 X-To: bio-www@net.bio.net X-User-Agent: AceDSL Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 209.110.158.1 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:31:05 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: 80f768118682bbd33aa90c452dcb68d08ec58901 Sender: owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk New TSSP program for Recognition of human Pol II promoter region and start of transcription Method description: Algorithm predicts potential transcription start positions by linear discriminant function combining characteristics describing functional motifs and oligonucleotide composition of these sites. TSSP uses file with selected factor binding sites from RegSite DB (Plants) developed by Softberry Inc. using literature data. You can try TSSP at: http://www.softberry.com/berry.phtml?topic=promoter TSSP output: First line - name of your sequence; Second and Third lines - LDF threshold and the length of presented sequence 4th line - The number of predicted promoter regions Next lines - positions of predicted sites, their 'weights' and TATA box position (if found) Position shows the first nucleotide of the transcript (TSS position) After that functional motifs are given for each predicted region; (+) or (-) reflects the direct or complementary chain; S... means a particular motif identificator from the Wingender data base. For example: tssp Wed Jul 10 02:52:32 EDT 2002 >gi|1902902|dbj|AB001920.1| Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group) gene for phos Length of sequence- 5871 Thresholds for TATA+ promoters - 0.02, for TATA-/enhancers - 0.04 2 promoter/enhancer(s) are predicted Promoter Pos: 1522 LDF- 0.13 TATA box at 1488 18.93 Enhancer Pos: 1597 LDF- 0.12 Transcription factor binding sites/RegSite DB: for promoter at position - 1522 1468 (-) RSP00004 tagaCACGTaga 1459 (+) RSP00010 cACGTG 1456 (+) RSP00011 ctccACGTGgt 1461 (+) RSP00016 caTGCAC 1468 (-) RSP00016 caTGCAC 1256 (-) RSP00026 gcttttgaTGACtTcaaacac 1460 (+) RSP00065 ACGTGgcgc 1460 (+) RSP00066 ACGTGccgc 1459 (+) RSP00069 tACGTG 1341 (+) RSP00071 GACGTC 1346 (-) RSP00071 GACGTC ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through AceDSL WebMail (http://webmail.acedsl.com) --- From owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Jul 18 11:32:08 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 4664D17AE0 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:32:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AA117A8F for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:32:00 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6018) id 2AC8217AF0; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:31:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23BC17D8E for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:01:56 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 73DEB17D90; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:01:55 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-software-www@net.bio.net From: willy.valdivia@ndsu.nodak.edu ("Willy Valdivia Granda") Newsgroups: bionet.software.www Subject: RE: Second Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FFB17D8E for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:01:50 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from smtp1.ndsu.nodak.edu (smtp1.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.146]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05B517AC4 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:01:43 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from datasurg14 (ndas026.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.110.30]) by smtp1.ndsu.nodak.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g6HH1ZHZ017990; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:01:36 -0500 X-To: "Willy Valdivia Granda" , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-In-reply-to: X-Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:31:12 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: a396cf979d1bc14c4cb825b601c7cb12c78872e3 Sender: owner-bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Second Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics Sharing Knowledge with the World (No registration fees) September 24-26, 2002 http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/virtual-genomics/upcom2.htm Deadline: August 15, 2002 for complete documents Speakers List http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/virtual-genomics/program.htm Review Committee List http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/virtual-genomics/reviewpanel.htm Remote Locations: North Dakota State Universty, ND, (USA) Host Access Grid Academia Sinica, Taipei (TAIWAN) Real Player Version ACCESS DC, Arlington, VA (USA) Access Grid Version Boston University, MA (USA) Access Grid Version CINECA AG Conference Facility, Bologna. (ITALY) Access Grid Version Marshall University, WV (USA) Real Player Version Montclair State University, NJ (USA) Real Player Version Ohio Supercomputer Center, (OH) (USA) Access Grid Version Oklahoma State Universityn, OK (USA) Real Player Version Purdue University, West Lafayette, (IN) (USA) Access Grid Version The University of Manchester, Manchester (UK) Access Grid Version University of Hawaii, HI (USA) Access Grid Version University of Kansas, KS (USA) Access Grid Version University of Kentucky, KY (USA) Access Grid Version University of Maine, (ME) (USA) Access Grid Version University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (NE) (USA) Access Grid Version University of New Mexico HPCERC, (NM) (USA) Access Grid Version University of North Dakota, ND (USA) Real Player Version University of Puerto Rico, San Juan. Puerto Rico Access Grid Version Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Amsterdam. The Netherlands Access Grid Version The "Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics" is an advanced environment for the exchange and discussion of information related to innovations of the post-genomic era. Since genomic research has led to an explosive rate of data accumulation and to a shift in the way biological research is conducted, the conference features high profile researchers and educators working actively in the development of new applications in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics. While genomic technologies offer an enormous scientific potential to understand genome functions, structure and interaction, the increasing amount of data generated present new challenges for biologists, sociologists, mathematicians, computer scientists and biological modelers. Therefore the main goals of the Virtual Conference in Genomics and Bioinformatics are: 1) Transcend geographical and economical barriers to the exchange of ideas that facilitates the interaction and collaboration among scientists and educators around the world. 2) Address the benefits and limitations of the newest developments in post-genomic technologies. 3) Explore the social and ethical implications of genomic and bioinformatic research 4) Establish new ways to introduce high school community about today's multidisciplinary science. Topics of the Virtual Conference includes but not limited to: . Structural and Functional Genomics . Post-Genomic Data Standardization, Management, and Integration . Statistical and Computational Approaches for Gene Expression Analysis . Sequence Annotation . Metabolic Profiling and Simulation of Cellular Processes . Social and Ethical Implications of Genomic Research . High Throughput Computing and Distributed Memory Infrastructures Willy Valdivia Granda Plant Stress Genomics and Bioinformatics Group North Dakota State University PO BOX 5130 Fargo, USA 701 231-8440 (Lab) 701 231 8255 (Fax) www.ndsu.edu/virtual-genomics ---