From rrwagner from faw.at Sat Feb 2 03:29:55 2008 From: rrwagner from faw.at (Prof. Roland Wagner) Date: Sat Feb 2 10:49:16 2008 Subject: [Bionews] BIRD 08 Message-ID: <47A42A03.7090005@faw.at> BioInformatics Research and Development Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7-9, 2008 BIRD 08 www.birdconf.org *Paper submission deadline extended !!!! New deadline: February 15, 2008 Workshop Proposal submission Poster submission: Deadline March 15* Best regards Roland Wagner -- Univ. Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner Director of the Institute of Applied Knowledgeprocessing (FAW) Director of the Institute "integriert studieren" Tel.: +43 676 84673210 Fax: +43 732 24689308 rrwagner@faw.uni-linz.ac.at sec1: Monika Neubauer Tel.: +43 676 84673212 Fax.:+43 732 2468 9308 mneubauer@faw.uni-linz.ac.at sec2: Barbara Arrer Tel: +43 732 2468 9232 Fax:+43 732 2468 9322 barbara.arrer@jku.ta http://www.faw.uni-linz.ac.at http://www.integriert-studieren.jku.at http://www.dexa.org http://www.icchp.org From asidhu from biomap.org Mon Feb 4 03:50:45 2008 From: asidhu from biomap.org (Amandeep Sidhu) Date: Mon Feb 4 11:28:10 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Last CFP: 3rd Special Track on Ontologies for BiomedicalSystems for CBMS 2008 Message-ID: <2dbc82b00802040050m3605bf05w1ccf2cd7d57a0e56@mail.gmail.com> 3rd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems Jyv?skyl?, Finland June 17-19 2008 http://cbms08.biomap.org/ Call for Papers Biomedical Ontologies have developed in an uncoordinated way, often reflecting mere relations of 'association' between what are called 'concepts', and serving primarily the purposes of information extraction from on-line biomedical literature and databases. In recent years, we have learned a great deal about the criteria which must be satisfied if ontology is to allow true information integration and automatic reasoning across data and information derived from different sources. The goal of this track is to survey existing biomedical ontologies and reform them in such a way as to allow true information integration in biomedical domain. Authors are invited to submit original papers exploring the theories, techniques, and applications of biomedical ontologies. Papers are invited (but not limited) to the following themes: * Biomedical Ontologies for Genetics, Proteomics, Diseases, Privacy etc. * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Semantics in Biological Data Modeling * Use of semantics to manage Interoperation in Biomedical Databases * Semantic Web technologies and formalisms for Biomedical Data * Ontology representation and exchange languages for bioinformatics * Biomedical Ontologies and OWL * Biological Data Integration and Management using Ontologies * Biomedical Data Engineering using Ontologies * Application of Biomedical Ontologies for Heterogeneous Database Access * Query Optimization Techniques for Biomedical Database using Ontologies * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Change Management in Biomedical Ontologies * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Important Dates 04 February 2008 Paper Submission Due 28 February 2008 Notification of acceptance 28 March 2008 Final camera-ready paper due 28 March 2008 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission Procedures Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. Use a maximum of 6 pages IEEE two-column format, including figures and references. All submissions will be done electronically via the CBMS 2008 web submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CBMS2008). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2008 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. High Quality submissions will be published in a special issue of Biomedical Ontologies Journal by Oxford University Press. Track Organizers Amandeep S. Sidhu Curtin University of Technology, Perth http://www.amandeep.org/ Tharam S. Dillon Curtin University of Technology, Perth Jake Chen Indiana University, USA http://informatics.iupui.edu/people/profile.php?id=74 Elizabeth Chang Curtin University of Technology, Australia http://www.fit.cbs.curtin.edu.au/~chang/docs/index.php Program Committee Alexey Tsymbal (Siemens, Germany) David Hansen (e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Australia) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Ernesto Damiani (Computer Science Department, Milan University, Italy) Fabio Porto (Database Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland) Farookh K. Hussain (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Fedja Hadzic (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Huiru Zheng (University of Ulster, UK) Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Jason Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Li Liao (University of Delaware, USA) Ling Feng (Tsinghua University, China) Maja Hadzic (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Midori Harris (GO Consortium, European Bioinformatics Institute) Mustafa Jarrar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Robert Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Silke Eckstein (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany) Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Sun Kim (School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA) Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia) Werner Ceusters (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, USA) Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA) From mourad12345678 from yahoo.com Sun Feb 3 20:04:37 2008 From: mourad12345678 from yahoo.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Mon Feb 4 11:28:18 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Call for Paper : Algorithms in Molecular Biology - ALBIO'08 (Vienna, July 2008 ) Message-ID: <910936.72662.qm@web31514.mail.mud.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis (Tunisia) Organizes Algorithms in Molecular Biology (ALBIO'08) Workshop held in parallel with 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD?08) www.birdconf.org Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7-9, 2008 Computational Molecular Biology has emerged from the Human Genome Project as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The exponential growth of the size of biological databases, the complexity of biological problems and the necessity to deal with errors in biological sequences, result in time efficiency and memory requirements. The development of fast, low memory requirements and high-performances algorithms is thus increasingly important in Computational Molecular Biology. We are interested in papers that deal with algorithms that solve fundamental and/or applied problems in Molecular Biology, that are computationally efficient, that have been implemented and experimented on simulated and/or on real biological sequences, and that provide interesting new results. The submitted papers should present recent research results and identify and explore directions for future research. Topics include, but not limited to: (i) strings processing, (ii) biological sequences comparison, (iii) structures prediction, (iv) phylogeny reconstruction, (v) DNA sequences assembly, clustering, and mapping, (vi) molecular evolution, (vii) genes prediction/recognition, (viii) genes expression (ix) haplotyping (x) genomes rearrangement (xi) strings barecoding. You are invited to submit a draft paper in PDF format before March 1, 2008 to the Workshop Chair: Dr. Mourad Elloumi, E.Mail: Mourad.Elloumi@fsegt.rnu.tn or Mourad12345678@yahoo.com Papers should not exceed 10 pages in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) format. All accepted papers will be published in LNBI www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html by Springer Verlag. Program Committee: . Mourad Elloumi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, (Chair) . Sami Khuri, San Jos? State University, USA . Alain Gu?noche, Institute of Mathematics of Luminy, Marseille, France. . Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy . Gianluca Della Vedova, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy . Pierre Peterlongo, IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France . Jan Holub, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Important Dates: Submission of Full Papers: March 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2008 Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From rrwagner from faw.at Thu Feb 7 11:51:14 2008 From: rrwagner from faw.at (Prof. Roland Wagner) Date: Thu Feb 7 13:06:10 2008 Subject: [Bionews] BIRD 08 Call for posters March 15 Message-ID: <47AB3702.7010003@faw.at> *_C a l l f o r P o s t e r s_* 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development *BIRD'08* www.birdconf.org Technical University of Vienna, Austria July 7 -- 9, 2008 *Scope of the conference:* The primary focus of BIRD '08 is to provide researchers and users in the field of bioinformatics a forum in which to interact about new research directions, developments, and software/web services. It encompasses the methods of solving biological, medical, or chemical problems by computer science, machine learning, or information processing tools. The conceptual level of the methods range from theoretical approaches through the design of algorithms, models, and information processing systems through to the development of software packages and web services. *The program committee seeks contributions, which topics include, but are not limited to:* * Algebraic Biology * Databases & Data Integration * Drug Design * Ontologies & Textmining * Evolution and Phylogenetics * Genomics * Gene and Splice Site Recognition * Machine learning and data analysis * Gene Expression/regulation & Microarrays * MicroRNA and RNAi * Molecular Diagnostics and Treatment Support * Molecular Dynamics * Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology * Phylogenetics & Molecular Evolution * Protein & RNA Structure and Function * Proteomics * Sequence Analysis & Alignment * SNPs and Haplotyping * System Biology and Modelling *Poster Submission Details:* Posters should describe original, interesting, and solid scientific content that is relevant to bioinformatics and computational biology. Authors are invited to submit condensed descriptions of ongoing work in English which will be displayed during the meeting. Poster abstracts should be submitted by March 15, 2008, using the online poster submission form (https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/bird/confdriver/). They will be reviewed to ensure that the content is appropriate. We will attempt to accept as many posters as possible, subject to space restrictions. Please note the following: - Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page. - All abstracts must be submitted by March 15, 2008. All questions related to the BIRD '08 poster session should be directed to the BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office@birdconf.org ) Short papers (max. 4 pages) of all accepted posters will be published by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). The presenting author of each accepted poster must register for the conference prior to May 15, 2008, in order for the poster to be included in the program. Presenting authors are expected to attend the poster session. *Honorary Co-Chairs:* Heinz Engl, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna, Austria Rudolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Amarnath Gupta,* *SDSC of the University of California San Diego, USA Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Chris Sander, MSKCC - Computational Biology Center, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria *General Co-Chairs: * Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Organizing Chair:* Gabriela Wagner, DEXA Society, Austria *Poster Session Co-Chairs:* Djork-Arn? Clevert, Signature Diagnostics, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria *Program Committee:* Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria Fuat Akal, University of Basel, Switzerland Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Rub?n Arma?anzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, Santosh Atanur, C-DAC, India Brian Aufderheide, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Bagatolli, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Khalid Benabdeslem, University of Lyon1 - LIESP, France Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Germany Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy Timo Breit, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Bruno Buchberger, University of Linz, Austria Philipp Bucher, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and, Switzerland Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy S?nia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Silvana Castano, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Bulbul Chakravarti, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA Belinda Chang, University of Toronto, Canada Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Rosana Cheh?n, CONICET-Argentine, Argentina Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Francis Y.L. Chin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bin Cui, Peking University, China Coral del Val Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Sabine Dietmann, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany Zhihong Ding, University of California, Davis, USA Pierre D?nnes, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Silke Eckstein, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ingvar Eidhammer, The University of Bergen, Norway Domenec Farre, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Portugal Jorge H. Fernandez, EMBRAPA, Brazil Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria Javier Forment Millet, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany Cornelius Fr?mmel, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen, Germany Michal J. Gajda, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Zuzanne Gaudet, Harvard University, USA Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland Joaquin Goni, University of Navarra, Spain Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, Poland Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Hendrik Hache, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Javier Herrero, EMBL-EBI, UK Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA Tao-Wie Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ela Hunt, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Viroquant Research Group Modeling, Germany Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia Ina Koch, Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Anton HJ Koning, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michal Kr?tk?, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic David Kreil, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria Arun Krishnan, Keio University, Japan Tony Kusalik, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, University of Wales Swansea, UK Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA Jorge Amigo Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Genotipado, Spain Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Stefano Lise, University College London, UK Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Universit? della Calabria, Italy Patrick May, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Shannon McWeeney, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Universit? d'Artois, France Henning Mersch, RWTH-Aachen, Germany Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Francisco Montero, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Burkhard Morgenstern, University of G?ttingen, Germany Sach Mukherjee, University of Warwick, USA Norbert M?ller, University of Linz, Austria Brendan Mumey, Montana State University, USA Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Boris Novikov, University of St-Petersburg, Russia Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Bjorn Olsson, University of Skovde, Sweden Allan Orozco, School of Medicine, UCR, Costa Rica Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Jose M. Pe?a, Link?ping University , Sweden Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland Thomas Ploetz, University of Dortmund, Germany Adam Podhorski, CEIT, Spain Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA C.V.S.Siva Prasad, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Steve Qin, University of Michigan, USA Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia Axel Rasche, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Peter Robinson, Humboldt-Universit?t, Germany David Rocke, University of California, USA Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy Angel Rubio, CEIT, Spain Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Granada, Spain Victor Sabbia, Laboratorio de Organizaci?n y Evoluci?n del Genoma, Uruguay Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Francisca S?nchez Jim?nez, University of M?laga, Spain Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, London, UK Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain Kengo Sato, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Japan Kenji Satou, JAIST, Japan Alexander Schliep, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Wolfgang Schreiner, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland Angel Sevilla Camins, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland Florian Sieker, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Lab L-174, USA Sagi Snir, University of California, Berkeley, USA Dimitri Soshnikov, Moscow Aviation Technical University, Microsoft Russia, Russia Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany Stefan Stanczyk, Oxford Brookes University, UK Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India Todt Tilman, HAN University, Netherlands Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada Todd Treangen, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain Elena Tsiporkova, R&D Group, Flemish Radio & Television, Belgium Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dave Ussery, The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands Antoine H.C. van Kampen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jean-Philippe Vert, Center for Computational Biology, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Allegra Via, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal Peter Vojt??, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria Dirk Walther, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Georg Weiller, Australian National University, Australia David Wild, University of Warwick, UK Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia Wolfram W??, Universit of Linz, Austria Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA Filip Zelezny, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yifeng Zheng, University of Pennsylvania, USA Xiaofeng Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia Yongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerland Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Bergen, Norway Moti Zviling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel *Important Dates:* * Submission of Poster descriptions: March 15, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies of short papers: May 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office@birdconf.org) -- Univ. Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner Director of the Institute of Applied Knowledgeprocessing (FAW) Director of the Institute "integriert studieren" Tel.: +43 676 84673210 Fax: +43 732 24689308 rrwagner@faw.uni-linz.ac.at sec1: Monika Neubauer Tel.: +43 676 84673212 Fax.:+43 732 2468 9308 mneubauer@faw.uni-linz.ac.at sec2: Barbara Arrer Tel: +43 732 2468 9232 Fax:+43 732 2468 9322 barbara.arrer@jku.ta http://www.faw.uni-linz.ac.at http://www.integriert-studieren.jku.at http://www.dexa.org http://www.icchp.org From sticher from bioc.unizh.ch Mon Feb 11 03:30:49 2008 From: sticher from bioc.unizh.ch (Patrick Sticher) Date: Mon Feb 11 13:49:26 2008 Subject: [Bionews] First Announcement: 6th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology, September 8 + 9, 2008 Message-ID: <47B007B9.8010702@bioc.unizh.ch> Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to announce the 6th International NCCR Symposium taking place this September. First Announcement: 6th INTERNATIONAL NCCR SYMPOSIUM ON NEW TRENDS IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY September 8 + 9, 2008 Lecture Hall KOH B10, University of Zurich, Switzerland Confirmed speakers to date: Stephen Kowalczykowski ? Keiichi Namba ? Poul Nissen ? Andrej Sali ? A. Joshua Wand www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2008.asp The registration slot opens end of March. Online registration will be possible directly from the above mentioned web site. The symposium will be followed directly by the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography with two or three additional short lectures. Participants of the NCCR Symposium are invited to join this event as well. 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 Phone +41 / (0)44 / 635 54 84 Fax +41 / (0)44 / 635 59 08 Mail sticher@bioc.uzh.ch From sdut.crystal from gmail.com Sat Feb 16 21:04:06 2008 From: sdut.crystal from gmail.com (Hao HU) Date: Sun Feb 17 13:40:49 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Is there anyone want to participate a planaria structural genomics project funded by Chinese government? Message-ID: Dear all, >From now to July 2011 Chinese government will fund a planaria structural genomics project, for the reason of promoting the stem cell study of China. We have constructed the cDNA library of Dujesia japonica, a kind of freshwater planarian, and indentified more than 150 planaria specific proteins. Most our targets selected are planaria specific proteins and proteins important for stem cell study in which planaria is deeply studied as a model system. Now we want to seek an over sea collaborator whose duty is doing some diffraction data collection and structure solving work. If anyone is interested in it, please contact me as soon as possible. Thanks! H.Y Zhang Professor, Life Science School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China, 255049 Email: sdut.crystal@gmail.com From shandar from nibio.go.jp Mon Feb 18 06:37:49 2008 From: shandar from nibio.go.jp (Shandar Ahmad) Date: Mon Feb 18 11:08:42 2008 Subject: [Bionews] PRIB 2008 Message-ID: <1203334669.3081.11.camel@slitheen> ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS, INVITED SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS ____________________________________________________________________________ Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics October 15-17, 2008 Novotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia Web:http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08 _____________________________________________________________________________ Important Deadlines: Paper submission: 15 April 2008 Proposals for Special Sessions: 15 March 2008 Proposals for Tutorials: 15 May 2008 Author notification: 15 May 2008 Camera-ready papers: 15 June 2008 ______________________________________________________________________________ PRIB 2008 is aimed at bringing together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in life sciences. Pattern recognition techniques of interest include: statistical, syntactic, and structural approaches, Bayesian, hidden Markov and graphical models, neural networks, fuzzy and genetic algorithms, data mining, and their hybrids. Papers in areas of (but not limited to) bio-sequence analysis, gene and protein expression analysis, structure prediction, protein folding, docking, metabolic pathway analysis and regulatory networks, system biology, drug design, and bioimaging, are solicited for presentation at the conference. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as an edited volume in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics by Springer. Submission of papers will be electronic and through the conference website. Proposals for special sessions and tutorials at the conference are also invited in all related areas of research. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will also be invited for publication in Special Issues of reputed journals. Location: Melbourne is a sophisticated city in the south-east corner of mainland Australia. It is known for its attractive site seeing places, great events, passion for food and wine and fabulous scenery. Boasting as a style-setter, Melbourne is home to continuous program of festivals, art exhibitions and musical extravaganzas. Warning: you might never want to go home. For latest information on PRIB 2008, visit the conference web site or email the secretariat at prib2008.melb@infotech.monash.edu.au ______________________________________________________________________ General Chair: Madhu Chetty (Monash University, Australia) General Co-Chair: Raj Acharya (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Program Chair: Jagath Rajapakse (NTU, Singapore) Technical Chairs: Elena Marchiori (Vrije University, The Netherlands) Bertil Schmidt (NICTA, Australia) Special Session Chairs: Jennifer Hallinan (New Castle University, UK) Alioune Ngom (University of Windsor, Canada) Local Chair: Shyh Wei Teng (Monash University, Australia) Publicity Chairs: Shandar Ahmad (Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan) Phoebe Chen (Deakin University, Australia) Mariofanna Milanova (University of Arkansas at LR, USA) Md. Tamjidul Hoque (Griffith University, Australia) Publication Chairs: Sy Loi Ho (NTU, Singapore) Girija Chetty (University of Canberra, Australia) Sponsorship Chair: Dieter Bulach (CSIRO, Australia) Finance Manager: Tim Stephens (Monash University, Australia) Secretariat: Tina Bradshaw (Monash University, Australia) Web Master: Margot Schuhmacher (Monash University, Australia) _______________________________________________________________________________ Contact: PRIB 2008 Secretariat Gippsland School of Information Technology Monash University Churchill, Victoria - 3842, Australia Tel: +61 3 9902 6566 Fax: +61 3 9902 7137 Email: prib2008.melb@infotech.monash.edu.au _________________________________________________________________________________ ~ From gws from ncisgi.ncifcrf.gov Fri Feb 22 16:27:24 2008 From: gws from ncisgi.ncifcrf.gov (Gary Smythers) Date: Fri Feb 22 17:02:34 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Announcement: GenPept 164.0 available Message-ID: <200802222127.m1MLROLQ7075669@ncisgi.ncifcrf.gov> This is to announce the availability of release 164.0 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-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. ----------------------------- Gary W. Smythers [Contractor] Programmer Analyst IV Advanced Biomedical Computing Center SAIC NCI-Frederick National Cancer Institute at Frederick Post Office Box B Frederick, MD 21702-1201 USA Phone: 301-846-5778 FAX: 301-846-5762 gws@ncifcrf.gov ----------------------------- From sciencebioresearch from gmail.com Mon Feb 25 05:10:11 2008 From: sciencebioresearch from gmail.com (sciencebioresearch) Date: Mon Feb 25 12:48:03 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Search Engine for BioProtocols and Fasta format sequences Message-ID: Search Engine for BioProtocols and Fasta format sequences - http://www.bioscience.ws/search/ Biology Encyclopedia - http://www.bioscience.ws/encyclopedia/ From rm285 from georgetown.edu Thu Feb 28 17:00:49 2008 From: rm285 from georgetown.edu (Raja Mazumder) Date: Fri Feb 29 00:25:08 2008 Subject: [Bionews] UniProt Release Note 13.0 Message-ID: <47C72F11.2030803@georgetown.edu> ******************************************************************************** UniProt Release 13 Note 26-Feb-2008 ******************************************************************************** CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Database description 3. Current release contents 4. Description of changes made to UniProt since release 12.0 5. Forthcoming changes 6. How to link to UniProt 7. Feedback 8. Acknowledgements 9. Terms of use 10. Citation 11. Contact 1. INTRODUCTION The UniProt Consortium--European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and Protein Information Resource (PIR)--is pleased to announce UniProt Release 13 (26-Feb-2008). UniProt is updated every three weeks, and can be accessed online for searches or download at http://www.uniprot.org. 2. DATABASE DESCRIPTION The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt), a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), and the Protein Information Resource (PIR), is comprised of four databases, each optimized for different uses. The UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is the central access point for extensively curated protein information, including function, classification and cross-references. The UniProt Reference Clusters (UniRef) combine closely related sequences into a single record to speed up sequence similarity searches. The UniProt Archive (UniParc) is a comprehensive repository of all protein sequences, consisting only of unique identifiers and sequences. The UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental Sequences (UniMES) database is a repository specifically developed for metagenomic and environmental data. Additional information on UniProt is available at ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/README and in the UniProt Knowledgebase user manual (http://expasy.org/sprot/userman.html). 3. CURRENT RELEASE CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------- UniProt Release 13 ------------------------------------------------------------- Database -- Entries ------------------------------------------------------------- UniProtKB -- 5,751,608 (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot section: 356,194; UniProtKB/TrEMBL section: 5,395,414) UniRef100 -- 5,439,954 UniRef90 -- 3,596,087 UniRef50 -- 1,818,919 UniParc -- 16,134,006 UniMES -- 6,028,191 ------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed release statistics for UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and UniProtKB/TrEMBL sections of the UniProt Knowledgebase can be viewed at http://www.expasy.org/sprot/relnotes/relstat.html and http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot/sptr_stats/index.html, respectively. 4. 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