From rstember from labtrack.com Fri Feb 1 17:40:54 2008 From: rstember from labtrack.com (rstember@labtrack.com) Date: Fri Feb 1 21:42:09 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Drawing for a free license of the LABTrack Electronic Lab Notebook Software Message-ID: <95746f74-a6f0-433f-b418-c46d7cdb38b0@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com> LABTrack LLC is giving away 3 free licenses for its popular LABTrack Personal edition Electronic Lab Notebook. Entries must be received by April 29, 2008. Click on the link at the top of the main page at www.labtrack.com and complete the entry form to enter. Good luck! From news-search from giardinisilenziosi.it.invalid Sun Feb 10 05:20:53 2008 From: news-search from giardinisilenziosi.it.invalid (news-search) Date: Sun Feb 10 14:34:37 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] university media interfaces Message-ID: I'm looking for informations about how to relate to US universities communication services. Is there any standard in US universities way to interface with media? Are there any FAQs about technical terms in scientific journalism (for example: 'paper's corresponding author' and so on)? A difficulty that I frequently meet is to discern which is a press-release and which a news article. I think I can't use the last one without authorization, but simply I could quote it. Thanks, for paying me attention, Luca From wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org Mon Feb 11 04:25:32 2008 From: wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org (wcecs_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Mon Feb 11 13:49:19 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Call for Papers Reminder: The World Congress on Engineering (WCE) 2008 Message-ID: CFP: The World Congress on Engineering WCE 2008 From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG) WCE 2008: London, U.K., 2-4 July, 2008 http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008 The WCE 2008 is organized by International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The WCE conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. The recent IAENG conference has attracted more than seven hundred participants from over 30 countries. Our congress committees have been formed with over three hundred committee members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from different universities like Cambridge, Imperial College, MIT and Oxford etc. The conference proceedings will be published by IAENG (ISBN: 978-988-98671-9-5) in hardcopy. The full-text congress proceeding will be indexed in major database indexes so that it can be assessed easily. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the IAENG journals. Revised and expanded version of the selected papers may also be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books under the framework of cooperation between IAENG and Springer, and between IAENG and America Institute of Physics. For reference, the following post conference edited books of our recent IAENG 2007 conferences have been scheduled to be published by Springer in early 2008: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and by AIP: Current Themes in Engineering Science (World Congress on Engineering 2007). The following conferences are held as parts of the WCE 2008: ICAEM'08 The 2008 International Conference of Applied and Engineering Mathematics ICCIIS'08 The 2008 International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems ICCSDE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering ICCSE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Computer Science and Engineering ICDMKE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering ICEEE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ICFE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Financial Engineering ICIE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Information Engineering ICISIE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Information Security and Internet Engineering ICME'08 The 2008 International Conference of Mechanical Engineering ICMEEM'08 The 2008 International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management ICPDC'08 The 2008 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing ICSBB'08 The 2008 International Conference of Systems Biology and Bioengineering ICSIE'08 The 2008 International Conference of Signal and Image Engineering ICWN'08 The 2008 International Conference of Wireless Networks ========= Submission: WCE 2008 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to WCE{at}iaeng.org by 6 March, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCE congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues (for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/). WCE Important Dates: Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 6 March, 2008 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration Due: 31 March, 2008 WCE 2008: 2-4 July, 2008 WCE 2008 Congress Co-chairs Prof. Alexander M. Korsunsky Professor of Engineering Science Dean, Trinity College Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK Prof. Andrew Hunter Professor & Head of Department & Head of Vision and AI Research Group Dean of Research Department of Computing and Informatics, Lincoln University, UK Prof. David WL Hukins, CPhys, FinstP, FIPEM, FRSE Professor of Bio-medical Engineering Head of Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK Prof. Leonid Gelman (honorary co-chair) Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustic Monitoring, Chairman of COMADIT, British Institute of NDT, Director, Centre of Vibro-Acoustics and Fatigue, Department of Process and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering Cranfield University, UK Dr. Christopher John Hogger (honorary co-chair) Senior Lecturer Department of Computing Imperial College London, UK Prof. Darek J. Ceglarek (ICMEEM honorary co-chair) Professor, International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, UK Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Fellow of CIRP; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and ASME Transactions on Manufacturing Science and Engineering Dr. Stephen Payne (ICSBB honorary co-chair) University Lecturer in BioMedical Engineering Dean of Degrees Keble College, Head of Physiological Understanding through Modelling, Monitoring and Analysis Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK More details about the WCE 2008 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/WCE2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.com/WCE2008/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues. From wce_2008 from iaeng.org Thu Feb 14 01:21:58 2008 From: wce_2008 from iaeng.org (wce_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Thu Feb 14 14:11:10 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Call for Papers: World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS) 2008 Message-ID: <83414e2a-a63f-4b5e-b271-ee70e26b394e@n19g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> CFP: World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science WCECS 2008 From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG) WCECS 2008: San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008 http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008 The WCECS 2008 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The WCECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. Our last IAENG conference has attracted more than one thousand participants from over 30 countries, and our conference committees have been formed with over two hundred and sixty committee members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from over 20 countries. All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-98671-0-2). The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. Revised and expanded version of the selected papers may also be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books under the framework of cooperation between IAENG and Springer, and between IAENG and America Institute of Physics. For reference, the following post conference edited books of our recent IAENG 2007 conferences have been scheduled to be published by Springer in early 2008: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis. WCECS Congress Co-chairs Prof. Craig Douglas (WCECS Keynote Speaker & Co-chair) Professor of Computer Science & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky Senior Research Scientist (corresponding to nonteaching full professor) Computer Science Department, Yale University, USA Prof. Warren S. Grundfest, Fellow, AIMBE, SPIE (WCECS co-chair) Co-Chair, Biomedical Engineering IDP Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Surgery The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles, USA Former Chair, SPIE Health Care Engineering & Technology Policy Former Vice Chair, Health Care Engineering Policy Committee, IEEE Prof. Lee Schruben, Ph.D. Yale (WCECS & ICMSC co-chair) Professor and Former Department Chairman Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, USA Prof. Jon Burgstone (ICIMT honorary co-chair) Faculty Chair Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley, USA Board Member of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Harvard University Prof. Su-Shing Chen, Fellow, SPIE (ICCB honorary co-chair) Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, USA; Principal Investigator of Systems Biology Laboratory, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB); Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Benjamin Friedlander, FIEEE (ICCST honorary co-chair) Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA The IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) Former Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society Former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control Prof. Burghard B. Rieger (ICMLDA honorary co-chair) Professor of Computational Linguistics Former Dean (1999-2001) of Faculty of Languages and Literature Former Head of Department of Linguistic Computing, University of Trier, Germany President (1989-93) of the German Society for Linguistic Computing (GLDV) Vice-President (1990-94) of the International Society for Terminoly and Knowledge Engineering (GTW) Prof. Lei Xu (ICSCA honorary co-chair) IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow, Member of European Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong The WCECS 2008 is composed of the following 15 conferences (all will be held at the same location and date): ICCB'08 International Conference on Computational Biology 2008 ICCE'08 International Conference on Chemical Engineering 2008 ICCS'08 International Conference on Circuits and Systems 2008 ICCSA'08 International Conference on Computer Science and Applications 2008 ICCST'08 International Conference on Communications Systems and Technologies 2008 ICEEA'08 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Applications 2008 ICEIT'08 International Conference on Education and Information Technology 2008 ICIAR'08 International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics 2008 ICIMT'08 International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies 2008 ICMHA'08 International Conference in Modeling Health Advances 2008 ICMLDA'08 International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Analysis 2008 ICMSC'08 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Control 2008 ICSCA'08 International Conference on Soft Computing and Applications 2008 ICSEEM'08 International Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Management 2008 ICSPIE'08 International Conference on Signal Processing and Imaging Engineering 2008 ============= Important Dates: Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 2 July, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers Due & Registration Deadline: 30 July, 2008 WCECS 2008: 22-24 October, 2008 ========= Submission: WCECS 2008 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to WCECS{at}iaeng.org by 2 July, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCE congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues (for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/). More details about the WCECS 2008 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com Other Engineering Letters web sites at: http://www.engineeringletters.net http://www.engineeringletter.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues. From Hilary.Jones from manchester.ac.uk Fri Feb 22 09:59:52 2008 From: Hilary.Jones from manchester.ac.uk (Hilary J Jones) Date: Fri Feb 22 17:02:11 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Biology Education Software Task Force Message-ID: <20080222145952406.00000004672@DFT4S23J> Hello, I wonder if you could help me. I am editing/cleansing data on resources for the Bioscience Subject Centre at the University of Leeds. They listed the above as a resource but their original link: http://www.snarkware.net/bioedusoft/ didn't work any longer. I found this link: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bioforum/1994-January/007115.html which brought me to this site. It doesn't appear to have been updated since 1994. Could you please tell me if there is a new link or whether this doesn't exist anymore? Thank you for your time in advance. Regards Hilary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hilary Jones Intute Content Editor Mimas The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel: 0161 306 6459 Email: hilary.jones@manchester.ac.uk Website: http://www.intute.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bioforum/attachments/20080222/23dc9306/attachment.html From ptan from cse.msu.edu Thu Feb 28 12:06:33 2008 From: ptan from cse.msu.edu (Pang-Ning Tan) Date: Thu Feb 28 15:14:01 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] SDM 2008 Call for Participation Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ============================================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SDM'08: 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Atlanta, Georgia, USA April 24-26, 2008. This conference is held in cooperation with the American Statistical Association (ASA). ============================================================= [Pre-registration deadline: Monday, March 24, 2008] On-line registration and conference program schedule is now available at http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/ HIGHLIGHTS ---------- * 4 plenary talks * 3 full day and 1 half day workshops * 4 tutorials * 40 full and 37 short papers ===================== PLENARY SPEAKERS ===================== * Geometry and Analysis on Digital Data, Emergent Structures and Knowledge Building Ronald Coifman, Yale University * Algorithms for understanding the Sky Andrew W. Moore, Google Inc. * Mining Multilingual Documents Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland at College Park * Data Mining and Materials Informatics Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University ================================ Tutorials ================================ Note that tutorials are complementary with conference registration. * Mining Massive Collections of Shapes and Time Series: With Case Studies in Anthropology and Astronomy Eamonn Keogh, University of California - Riverside * Anomaly Detection Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Varun Chandola, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Aleksandar Lazarevic, United Technologies * Data Mining based Social Network Analysis from Online Behavior Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Muhammad A Ahmad, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Nishith Pathak, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities David Kuo-Wei Hsu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * Fast N-body Algorithms for Massive Datasets Alex Gray, Georgia Tech =================================== Workshops =================================== * Data Mining for Biomedical Informatics (Full Day) * Link Analysis, Counterterrorism, and Security (Full Day) * Text Mining 2008 (Full Day) * Practical Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (Half Day)