From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Apr 03 23:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!newshost.lanl.gov!awabi.library.ucla.edu!128.32.206.55!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ctu-gate!news.nctu.edu.tw!news.cis.nctu.edu.tw!fjuduckbbs From: chensy.bbs@atlas.ultrazone.net (chensy) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Definitions of vocabulary about ecology!!! Date: 04 Apr 1999 11:28:34 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3Ti1KQ$Vjv@atlas.ultrazone.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bbs@atlas.ultrazone.net X-Filename: bn_population_bio/M.923225306.A Is there anyone can help me? I need definitions of vocabularies about ecology. 1.Gap ecology 2.Patch ecology 3.Oikos 4.Macroecology 5.Hypervolume niche 6.External rumen 7.Thermal inversion 8.Oppprtunistic species 9.April 22, 1990 10.Energy allocation Chinese or English would br all right, but Chinese is better. And please mail to my E.mail box. My E.mail is: chensy@ms12.url.com.tw Thank you!!! -- ¡° ¨Ó·½:¡EÀn¤l¼d atlas.ultrazone.net¡E[FROM: t200-210.dialup] From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Apr 04 23:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!dcs.st-and.ac.uk!len From: len@dcs.st-and.ac.uk ("Len Thomas") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: WORKSHOP: Distance sampling, June 1999, Colorado Date: 5 Apr 1999 07:40:41 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 93 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9904051429.AA08048@dolphin.dcs.st-and.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Len Thomas" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ---------------------------------------------- DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION IS APRIL 30TH! ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- WILDLIFE POPULATION ASSESSMENT TRAINING WORKSHOPS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF DISTANCE SAMPLING SURVEYS ------------------------------------------------- Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment University of St Andrews and Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Workshop 1: June 14-17 Workshop 2: June 21-24 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Overview -------- Distance sampling is the most widely used method for estimating the abundance of wildlife populations. The aim of these workshops is to train participants in the latest methods for design and analysis of distance sampling surveys, including line and point transects. The two identical 4-day workshops will be a blend of theory and practice, and participants will learn the new, windows version of the software Distance. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data sets, and can expect to do some preliminary analyses with their data. In the latter part of each workshop, time is set aside for presentation of more advanced concepts and discussion of topics of common interest in smaller, informal groups. Instructors ----------- Stephen Buckland David Borchers Len Thomas Bruce Lubow. The workshop instructors are at the forefront of research into distance sampling methods, and development of software to apply the new methods. They have extensive experience teaching distance sampling, including previous workshops taught in the UK, USA, Norway, and New Zealand. Cost ---- Course fees are US$1000, or US$750 for registered students. This covers tuition, course materials and workshop banquet. For registrations received after April 30th, a late-registration supplement of US$100 will apply. To allow individual attention to be given to each person during each workshop, the number of participants is restricted to 30. Places will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. Further information ------------------- The workshop booklet is on the world-wide web at http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/distanceworkshop/ Registration forms are available at that site. If you would like a printed copy of this information or have any questions about the workshops, please contact Workshop Organizer Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment Mathematical Institute University of St. Andrews St. Andrews Scotland KY16 9SS Tel:+44 1334 463228 Fax: +44 1334 463748 Email: rhona@mcs.st-and.ac.uk Alternative contact: Steve Buckland +44 1334 463787 steve@mcs.st-and.ac.uk From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Apr 05 23:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!magicnet.mn!batbold From: batbold@magicnet.mn ("batbold") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: looking for sponsor or collaborators Date: 6 Apr 1999 04:22:18 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 50 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <11185166228097@magicnet.mn> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net SEEK FOR "OLGOI KHORKHOI" (ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC TRIP) There is a conversation among natives about the dangerous and injurious animal named "Olgoi khorkhoi" in Gobi in Mongolia. 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In the end of the trip foreign sponsors or participants will be given a big chance to attend to Mongolian National Celebration "Naadam" (men's three games) which is heritage of Genghis Khan period still now. Member Academy of Science in Mongolia, academician, researcher of reptile, professor Kh.Monkhbajar and doctor of biology J.Batbold will organize the scientific trip. Please contact before April 1, 1999 if you're interested in participation and cooperation or sponsor this magnificent trip: Prof. Kh.Monkhbajar, Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar-48. State Pedagogical University, Department of Biology phone: 327075 fax: 976-1-322705 Dr. J.Batbold, Ph.D. Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar-37. Centre for Control and Research of Natural Infectious Diseases phone: 632859 fax: 976-1-632859 E-mail: batbold@magicnet.mn From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Apr 06 23:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!magicnet.mn!batbold From: batbold@magicnet.mn ("batbold") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC TRIP Date: 7 Apr 1999 00:28:40 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 51 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <07252040240259@magicnet.mn> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net SEEK FOR "OLGOI KHORKHOI" (ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC TRIP) There is a conversation among natives about the dangerous and injurious animal named "Olgoi khorkhoi" in Gobi in Mongolia. Nobody could give any answer to the question; it's true or false? Even there's any document in the Science. In other hand, this matter is waiting for its researcher. So we're going to organize the scientific trip 'Seek for Olgoi khorkhoi' in June 1999. 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Centre for Control and Research of Natural Infectious Diseases phone: 632859 fax: 976-1-632859 E-mail: batbold@magicnet.mn From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Apr 07 23:00:00 1999 From: harnad@flagstaff.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,sci.cognitive,sci.med.psychobiology,sci.psychology.announce,sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy,sci.bio.evolution,bionet.population-bio Subject: Pavlovian Feed-Forward Mechanisms: BBS Call for Commentators Organization: Princeton University Lines: 211 Sender: daemon@cmhcsys.cmhcsys.com Approved: grohol@coil.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:00:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.87.223.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@digex.net X-Trace: dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net 923576424 207.87.223.39 (Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:00:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:00:24 EDT Path: biosci!news.ic.sunysb.edu!news-nysernet-16.sprintlink.net!news-east1.sprintlink.net!news-peer1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!digex!dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net.POSTED!cmhcsys.cmhcsys.com!not-for-mail Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article *** please see also 5 important announcements about new BBS policies and address change at the bottom of this message) *** PAVLOVIAN FEED-FORWARD MECHANISMS IN THE CONTROL OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR by Michael Domjan, Brian Cusato, & Ronald Villarreal This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL by April 8th to: bbs@cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to [PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED ADDRESS]: Behavioral and Brain Sciences ECS: New Zepler Building University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. _____________________________________________________________ PAVLOVIAN FEED-FORWARD MECHANISMS IN THE CONTROL OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR Michael Domjan, Brian Cusato, & Ronald Villarreal Department of Psychology University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 U.S.A. Tel: 512-471-7702 Fax: 512-471-6175 Domjan@psy.utexas.edu ABSTRACT: The conceptual and investigative tools that are brought to bear on the analysis of social behavior are expanded by integrating biological theory, control systems theory, and Pavlovian conditioning. Biological theory has focused on the costs and benefits of social behavior from ecological and evolutionary perspectives. In contrast, control systems theory is concerned with how machines achieve a particular goal or purpose. The accurate operation of a system often requires feed-forward mechanisms that adjust system performance in anticipation of future inputs. Pavlovian conditioning is ideally suited to serve this function in behavioral systems. Pavlovian mechanisms have been demonstrated in various aspects of sexual behavior, maternal lactation, and infant suckling. Pavlovian conditioning of agonistic behavior has been also reported, and Pavlovian processes may be similarly involved in social play and social grooming. In addition, several lines of evidence indicate that Pavlovian conditioning can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of social interactions, thereby improving the cost/benefit ratio. The proposed integrative approach serves to extend Pavlovian concepts beyond the traditional domain of discrete secretory and other physiological reflexes to complex real-world behavioral interactions and helps apply abstract laboratory analyses of the mechanisms of associative learning to the daily challenges animals face as they interact with one another in their natural environment. KEYWORDS: social behavior, biological theory, control theory, feed-forward mechanisms, learning theory, Pavlovian conditioning, aggression, sexual behavior, nursing and lactation, social play, social grooming ____________________________________________________________ To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.domjan.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.domjan ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.domjan To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin@yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.domjan When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ____________________________________________________________ *** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS *** ------------------------------------------------------------------ (1) There have been some very important developments in the area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently. Please see: Science: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html Nature: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html American Scientist: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- (2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/ It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone. --------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically. Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive. Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the public BBS Archive: ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- (4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit papers to: Email: bbs@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk http://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/ INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- (5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). '`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`''`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'` sci.psychology.announce is a moderated newsgroup. Before submitting an article, please read the guidelines which are posted here bimonthly or the charter on the Web at http://www.grohol.com/spa/ Submissions are acknowledged automatically. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Apr 09 23:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!remarQ73!supernews.com!remarQ.com!remarQ69!WReNclone!WReNphoon3.POSTED!WReN!not-for-mail From: glosser@myremarq.com Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Math and Biology Organization: http://www.remarq.com: The World's Usenet/Discussions Start Here X-Originating-Host: 168.100.204.221 Lines: 16 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 18:11:44 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.0.3.195 X-Trace: WReNphoon3 923710498 10.0.3.195 (Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:14:58 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:14:58 PDT April is Math Awareness Month! The theme this year is Mathematics and Biology. In honor of Math Awareness Month, please post your lesson ideas for studies involving Math and Biology at our Interdisciplinary Projects Message Board. The board can be accessed from the following page: http://www.mathgoodies.com/connections/ Come join us! Gisele Glosser **** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here (tm) **** From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Apr 10 23:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 11 Apr 1999 02:00:17 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199904110900.CAA16129@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. 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De La Vega") Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: CALL-FOR-PAPERS: SNP Data Management & Analysis @ PSB'2000 Date: 27 Apr 1999 09:44:07 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 109 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3725E620.90C9C4F4@computer.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Human Genome Variation: Analysis, Management and Application of SNP Data A session of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 5-9, 2000 Recently there has been considerable interest in using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for the understanding of complex diseases and for pharamacogenetics. The human genetics community, both private and academic, is engaged in large scale SNP discovery efforts and assay development. With the imminent development of high throughput methodologies for automating the SNP discovery and screening process, it is likely that many if not all of the common polymorphisms will be identified and characterized in the next several years. As is often the case, data production may outpace current data management and analysis capabilities. New, specialized SNP databases are being designed and implemented to capture the impending flood of polymorphism data. Comprehensiveness of the captured data and the exploration of its intellectual content is essential. Computational methods and tools to handle and analyze polymorphism data flow will certainly play an important role in this challenge. Call for Participation The PSB 2000 session "Human Genome Variation: Analysis, Management and Application of SNP Data" aims to provide a timely forum in this area, bringing together computer scientists, bioinformatics specialists and biologists, from academia and industry, to address the forthcoming problems in the utilization of SNP information. We encourage academic, industrial and government scientists to submit manuscripts. In addition to a session for oral presentation of novel peer-reviewed contributions, there will be a panel discussion devised to foster exchange between industry and academic scientists. Participants are invited to discuss their issues with other peers in this panel session. Posters and computer demonstrations are also requested to complement the session. Topics The contributions should pose and discuss a specific problem that the biocomputing community will need to address, describe models, or propose specific solutions to a problem. Sequence polymorphisms will be the common theme, but the computational or theoretical contributions can span areas ranging from population genetics and evolution to data visualization and management. Among the anticipated topics are: Automation of large scale SNP genotyping. Data management and integration for SNP genotyping systems. Evolutionary aspects of genome variability and SNP analysis. Ontologies for human genome variation. SNP database mining and knowledge discovery. Statistical methods for SNP analysis. Tools for high throughput SNP discovery and screening. Visualization and analysis of SNP data. Submissions PSB will publish accepted full papers in an archival proceedings indexed in MEDLINE. All contributed papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed by at least three referees. A limited number of papers will be selected for a 30-minute oral presentation to the full assembled conference. Accepted poster abstracts will be distributed at the conference separately from the archival Proceedings. Please prepare your submission according to the instructions found at the Web page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/cfp-snp.html Dates & Deadlines Paper submissions due: July 12, 1999 Notification of paper acceptance: August 27, 1999 Camera ready of accepted papers due: September 24, 1999 Abstract deadline: October 1, 1999 Meeting: January 5-9, 2000 Conference Information The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2000) is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. PSB 2000 will be held January 5- 9, 2000, in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Sheraton Waikiki. For more information see the official PSB 2000 Web page at : http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/ Session Chairs Francisco M. De La Vega, Synthesis and Arrays R&D, PE Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA. E-mail: DelaveFM@pebio.com Martin Kreitman, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. E-mail: mkre@midway.uchicago.edu