From mourad12345678 from yahoo.com Mon Dec 3 10:46:54 2007 From: mourad12345678 from yahoo.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Mon Dec 3 11:26:54 2007 Subject: [Bionews] CfP : ALBIO'08 / BIRD08 (Vienna, Austria) Message-ID: <467384.77743.qm@web31511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS ALBIO'08 Algorithms in Molecular Biology Workshop held in parallel to BIRD?08 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development www.birdconf.org Computational Molecular Biology has emerged from the Human Genome Project as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The growing size of biological databases, the complexity of biological problems and the necessity to deal with errors in biological sequences all result in large run time and memory requirements. Biological sequence databases are growing at an exponential rate. All of these factors will make the development of fast, low memory requirements and high- performances algorithms increasingly important in Computational Molecular Biology. In our workshop, we are interested in papers that deal with all aspects of algorithms in Molecular Biology. We are, particularly, interested in algorithms that address 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. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS You are invited to submit a draft paper in Word or PDF format, about 5 to 8 pages including figures and references, before January 31, 2008 to the Workshop Organizer: Dr. Mourad Elloumi : E.Mail: Mourad.Elloumi@fsegt.rnu.tn or Mourad12345678@yahoo.com Important Dates Submission of Full Papers: January 31, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 From pan from cs.gsu.edu Tue Dec 4 11:34:53 2007 From: pan from cs.gsu.edu (Yi Pan) Date: Tue Dec 4 12:24:32 2007 Subject: [Bionews] Call for Bioinformatics Book Projetcts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: I and Prof. Albert Zomaya have served as Editors-in-Chief for the Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics for over one year. So far, the book series has been very successful. The first book was published a few months ago, and eight books are either in press or in the planning stage. Please take a look at book series web page for more information: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscyip/WileyBook.htm If you are interested in editing or authoring a book related to bioinformatics, please contact us. Below is the detailed information on the book series. For more information, go to the home page at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscyip/WileyBook.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Yi Pan Chair and Professor Department of Computer Science Georgia State University 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1450 Atlanta, GA 30302-4110, USA email: pan@cs.gsu.edu Phone: (404) 413-5719 Fax: (404) 413-5717 http://www.cs.gsu.edu/pan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics: Computational Techniques and Engineering http://www.cs.gsu.edu/pan/WileyBook.htm AIMS: Research and development in bioinformatics and computational biology require the cooperation of specialists from the fields of biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, and such related sciences. It is the comprehensive application of mathematics (e.g., probability and graph theory), statistics, science (e.g., biochemistry), and computer science (e.g., computer algorithms and machine learning) to the understanding of living systems. Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The large size of biological data sets, inherent complexity of biological problems and the ability to deal with error-prone data all result in special requirements such as large memory space and huge computation time. These challenges require computer scientists to rethink our traditional methods and algorithms and to adapt to the new research area. The objective of this book series is therefore to provide timely treatments of the different aspects of bioinformatics spanning theory, new and established techniques, enabling technologies and tools, and application domains. SCOPE: This series emphasizes the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are central in bioinformatics and computational biology. Although the possible set of book topics is large, the following areas are particularly suitable for our book series (but not exhaustive): Bioinformatic databases Biomedical image processing (segmentation, registration, fusion) Bio-ontology and data mining Computational genomics Computational intelligence in bioinformatics Data visualisation DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping Drug design Gene expression and microarrays Gene identification and annotation Machine learning methods in bioinformatics Molecular evolution and phylogeny Molecular modeling and simulation Protein, RNA and DNA sequence analysis Parallel computing in bioinformatics Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms Protein and RNA structure prediction Sequence assembly, sequence search and alignment System biology WILEY BOOK SERIES ON BIOINFORMATICS Series Editors: Yi Pan and Albert Y. Zomaya Current Volumes Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics: Techniques, Methods, and Applications (Tony Hu & Yi Pan) Future Volumes ? Grid Computing for Bioinformatics (Talbi & Zomaya) ? Biological Networks Analysis (Bj?rn H. Junker & Falk Schreiber) ? Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and Applications (Alexander Zelikovsky and Ion Mandoiu) ? Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (Yanqing Zhang and Jagath Rajapakse) ? Computational Approaches for Protein Function Prediction (Gaurav Pandey, Vipin Kumar, and Michael Steinbach) ? Classification Analysis of DNA Microarray Data (Leif Peterson) ? Elements of Computational Systems Biology (Lodhi and Muggleton) ? Biomolecular Networks - Computational Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Luonan Chen, Rui-Sheng Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang) Formatting Instructions: Below is the link to the guidelines for preparing the LaTex style for the manuscript. The link also contains guidelines for various other aspects of submitting the final manuscript. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-862.html If you are interested in writing or editing a book, you are encouraged to submit a proposal (see a proposal template at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/pan/wiley-proposal.doc) to one of the following Series Editors: Series Editors: Professor Yi Pan Chair Department of Computer Science Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303, USA Phone: (404) 413-5719 Fax: (404) 413-5717, Email: pan@cs.gsu.edu http://www.cs.gsu.edu/pan Professor Albert Y. Zomaya CISCO Systems Chair Professor School of Information Technologies Madsen Building, F09 The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Tel. +61 2 9351 6442 Fax +61 2 9351 3838 Email: zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~zomaya Publisher Paul Petralia Senior Editor Wiley Interscience 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 201-748-8784 ppetrali@wiley.com http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ -- From gilbertd from net.bio.net Sat Dec 8 22:58:52 2007 From: gilbertd from net.bio.net (Don Gilbert) Date: Sat Dec 8 23:01:27 2007 Subject: [Bionews] Bionet 20 year anniversary: early news of the Human Genome project Message-ID: <200712090358.lB93wqg14401@net.bio.net> Dear readers, Twenty years ago, an ambitious project to sequence of the human genome was being discussed on BIONET. The BIOSCI / Bionet electronic forum for biology news and discussion is celebrating its 20th year anniversary, and looking forward to another twenty. -- Don Gilbert, http://www.bio.net/ Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: MAU...@BIONET-20.ARPA Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: OTA Report/Requests on Human Genome Initiative Message-ID: <4411@ig.ig.com> Date: 12 Dec 87 20:53:53 GMT Sender: dae...@presto.ig.com Lines: 54 From: Sunil Maulik BIONET Users: The congressional Office of Technology Assessment is conducting a study of mapping and sequencing the human genome. The basic issues addressed are whether Congress should support a concerted research effort on the human genome, and if so, how it should be organized, funded, and coordinated within domestic agencies and with international research efforts. The genome project staff has completed an initial draft of the report that is being sent out for review, and we thought it would be useful to solicit the comments of the BIONET community. We will be placing the text of the overview chapter into contributed software where you can access it by file name (genome.text). Your comments and suggestions can be transmitted to us via e-mail on BIONET (cook- deegan.courteau), or mailed to Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, Biological Applications Program, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. 20510-8025. If you are interested in reviewing other chapters of the report, please write and let us know which ones to send you (table of contents is listed below). Chapter 1. Summary (to be completed later) Chapter 2. Introduction and Overview Chapter 3. Technologies for Mapping DNA Chapter 4. Applications to Research in Biology and Medicine Chapter 5. Ethical Implications Chapter 6. Agencies and Organizations in the United States Chapter 7. Options for Organizational Structure Chapter 8. International Efforts Appendices (to be prepared) Appendix A. Participant in OTA workshops Appendix B. Memebers of national advisory panels on the human genome Appendix C. Topics of OTA contract reports [List of OTA contract reports; those not known to be in press elsewhere will be released to the National Technical Information Service in December] Appendix D. Databases and Repositories in molecular biology Appendix E. Cost data on human genome projects Appendix F. Bibliometric data on mapping and sequencing Appendix G. Glossary. Your comments and suggestions will be most useful if they are received by December 17 at the latest. Please remember that the report is still in draft form, and must not be quoted, cited, or reproduced. Thank you. Jacqueline Courteau Research Assistant Biological Applications Program, OTA ------- From raghava from imtech.res.in Sun Dec 9 12:45:21 2007 From: raghava from imtech.res.in (Raghava) Date: Sun Dec 9 14:42:18 2007 Subject: [Bionews] DNA Binding Domain Message-ID: Dear Friends Recently our group have developed seperate methods for predicting DNA binding domain and DNA binding proteins. It is available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/463/abstract and http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/dnabinder/ . Regards Raghava From rrwagner from faw.at Sat Dec 15 13:19:04 2007 From: rrwagner from faw.at (Prof. Roland Wagner) Date: Sat Dec 15 21:15:33 2007 Subject: [Bionews] BIRD 2008 Message-ID: <47641A98.7040800@faw.at> * * *_C a l l f o r P a p 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 *Paper Submission Details:* * Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. * The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings of BIRD'08. * Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNBI-format. * Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics" (LNBI ) by Springer Verlag. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to submit their contribution electronically before January 31, 2008. Paper submission site: https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/bird/confdriver/ *Honorary Co-Chairs:* Heinz Engl, University of Linz, 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 *Program Committee Co-Chairs:* Josef K?ng, University of Linz, Austria Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna, 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 Full Papers: January 31, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Copies: April 15, 2008 *For further inquiries, please contact:* BIRD Conference Organisation Office (office@birdconf.org) * * *_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, University of Linz, 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. 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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 gws from ncisgi.ncifcrf.gov Wed Dec 26 13:17:20 2007 From: gws from ncisgi.ncifcrf.gov (Gary Smythers) Date: Wed Dec 26 13:40:48 2007 Subject: [Bionews] Announcement: GenPept 163.0 available Message-ID: <200712261817.lBQIHKXQ2411732@ncisgi.ncifcrf.gov> This is to announce the availability of release 163.0 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. 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