From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Mon Sep 1 01:20:59 2008 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Mon Sep 1 10:31:59 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Distance courses in Bioinformatics Message-ID: <48BB89CB.1030600@manchester.ac.uk> The next distance courses in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester and the University of Leeds, UK, begin on 6 October 2008. The payment deadline is Friday 19 September. These Masters level courses follow two themes, Bioinformatics and Computer Science. The Bioinformatics courses are: Introduction to Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists Introduction to Bioinformatics Bioinformatics for Systems Biology Introduction to Microarray Data Analysis Theory and Applications in Bioinformatics The Bioinformatics of Protein Structure The Science of Proteomics Molecular Modelling and Structure-based Drug Design The computing courses are: Introduction to software development in Java Intermediate Java Biocomputing Object-oriented analysis and design with UML Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences You will find further information, including fees and a link to the online application form, here : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Wed Sep 3 08:52:38 2008 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Wed Sep 3 09:03:27 2008 Subject: [Bionews] CFP - InnovationWell Autumn Community of Practice Meeting Message-ID: <0484da57-cc27-4101-ab3a-41a5c8d97fdc@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> I am posting details for the InnovationWell Autumn Community of Practice Meeting in October 2008 in Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia. Please note that abstracts are still being accepted for posters. Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare Research and Product Development InnovationWell Autumn Community of Practice Meeting October 14-17, 2008 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA Conference Link: http://innovationwell.net/comty_conferences The InnovationWell program will be covering topics in systems biology, computational biology, knowledge management, translational medicine, metabolomics, and predictive toxicology. The eCheminfo program will be covering topics in drug discovery informatics. Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted to innovationwell -[at]- douglasconnect.com or echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com as soon as possible, and be accompanied by a short biography of the presenting author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific organizing committee will be selected for scheduling in meeting poster sessions. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of submitted materials takes place. Speakers Keith Elliston (Genstruct), Debraj GuhaThakurta (Rosetta Inpharmatics, Merck & Co.), Stephen W. Edwards (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Paul McDonagh (Gene Network Sciences), Christopher M.L.S. Bouton (Pfizer), James R. Brown (GlaxoSmithKline), John Wilbanks (Creative Commons), Barry Bunin (Collaborative Drug Discovery), Michael Liebman (Windber Research Institute), Jerry Wright (Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions), Anastasia Christianson (AstraZeneca), James Golden (Science Applications International Corporation), John Speakman (National Cancer Institute), William Hayes (Biogen Idec), Andrew McMurray (Harvard University), Eugene Clark (Partners Healthcare), Alvin Berger (Metabolon), John Newman (USDA), Bruce Kristal (Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Anton Hopfinger (University of New Mexico), Heidi Einolf (Novartis), Yojiro Sakiyama (Pfizer), Olga Obrezanova (BioFocus DPI, UK), Anthony E. Klon (Pharmacopeia), Artem Cherkasov (University of British Columbia, Canada), Ann Richards (US EPA), Curt Breneman (RPI), Alex Tropsha (UNC), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Weida Tong (FDA) Pre-Conference Workshop, October 13. Knowledge Management in R&D chaired by John Conway (Accelrys) and Frank Hollinger (FRESH Directions Consulting) We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship support of the Chemical Computing Group, Merck Research Laboratories, SimBioSys, Tibotec, Tripos and MEDIT. More information at: InnovationWell Program http://innovationwell.net/COMTY_conferences http://innovationwell-bm810.eventsbot.com/ eCheminfo Program http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences http://echeminfoBM810.eventsbot.com Rob Reedijk InnovationWell Community of Practice From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Wed Sep 3 18:26:51 2008 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Thu Sep 4 10:42:16 2008 Subject: [Bionews] eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting, October 14-17, Philladelphia - Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics Message-ID: <03d8d955-38b5-47d4-90f0-5c2d4579b126@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting in October 2008 in Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia. Please note that abstracts are still being accepted for posters. Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics eCheminfo Autumn Community of Practice InterAction Meeting October 14-17, 2008 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA Conference Link: http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferences Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Screening, Docking, Structural Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME, Chemogenomics Program Summary Docking & Scoring, chaired by Chaya Duraiswami (GlaxoSmithKline) Application of MM-PBSA Free Energy Methods in Drug Discovery, chaired by Judith Lalonde (Bryn Mawr College) Accurate Calculation of pKas, chaired by Paul Labute (Chemical Computing Group) In Silico-based Chemogenomics, chaired by Fabrice Moriaud (MEDIT) PDB Ligands: Analysing their Structure & Binding Data, chaired by Marc Nicklaus (National Institutes of Health) Predictive ADME, chaired by Anthony E. Klon (Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery) Predictive Toxicology, chaired by Artem Cherkasov (University of British Columbia) Pre-Conference Workshop, 13 October Best Practices Virtual Screening Workshop chaired by Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect) Speakers John Irwin (UCSF), Georgia McGaughey (Merck), Johannes H. Voigt (Schering Plough), Lance Westerhoff (Quantum Bio), Zsolt Zsoldos (SimBioSys), Alexey Ornufriev (Virginia Tech), David Case (Rutgers University), Rommie Amaro (USCD), Peter Coveney (Univ. College London), Anna Kohlmann (Ariad Pharmaceuticals), Scott Brown (Abbott), Emil Alexov (Clemson University), Jens Erik Nielsen (University College Dublin, Ireland), Darren Flower (Jenner Institute, UK), Maja Mihajlovic (City College of New York), Michael Keiser (UCSF), Brian Marsden (University of Oxford, UK), Alex Tropsha (UNC), John Westbrook (Rutgers), Howard J Feldman (CCG), Igor V. Filippov (NCI), Raul Cachau (ATP, SAIC- Frederick), Vincent T. Moy (University of Miami), Paul Hawkins (OpenEye), Yulia Borodina (NCBI), Gerhard Wolber (Inte:Ligand, Austria), Marc Nicklaus (NCI), James P. Snyder (Emory), Anne Chaka (NIST), Esther Kellenberger (Univ. Strasbourg, France), Renxiao Wang (SIOC, Shanghai, PR China), Jim Dunbar (University of Michigan), Janna Wehrle (NIGMS), Anton Hopfinger (University of New Mexico), Heidi Einolf (Novartis), Yojiro Sakiyama (Pfizer), Olga Obrezanova (BioFocus DPI, UK), Anthony E. Klon (Pharmacopeia), Artem Cherkasov (University of British Columbia, Canada), Ann Richards (US EPA), Curt Breneman (RPI) CFP **Abstracts are still being considered for posters** Poster Session All InterAction Meeting registrants are eligible to present a Conference Poster. The Poster Sessions will take place in the evenings in Thomas Great Hall on campus, where refreshments and dinner are also served. Poster Abstracts (300-500 words) with Title, Institution, Authors and Contact Information should be submitted to barry.hardy - [at]- douglasconnect.com Abstracts will be considered based on date of submission and quality, and will be reviewed and accepted as they are received. To be considered for the formal program, they should be submitted as soon as possible. Contact: Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg 14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. echeminfo - [at]- douglasconnect.com More information at: InnovationWell Program http://innovationwell.net/COMTY_conferences http://innovationwell-bm810.eventsbot.com/ eCheminfo Program http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences http://echeminfoBM810.eventsbot.com Rob Reedijk eCheminfo Community of Practice From pag from intl-pag.org Thu Sep 4 19:45:38 2008 From: pag from intl-pag.org (PAG-XVII Conference) Date: Fri Sep 5 10:31:47 2008 Subject: [Bionews] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Plant & Animal Genome XVII Conference Message-ID: <200809050045.m850jcin002944@www.intl-pag.org> Dear Colleague: You are invited to attend the Plant & Animal Genome XVII Conference (PAG-XVII), January 10-14, 2009 taking place at the Town & Country Convention Center in San Diego, California. This is a call for abstracts and pre-registration. Everyone who submits an abstract is required to pay the registration fee prior to the meeting to be included in the Final Abstract Guide and posted on the website. You must be registered by December 1, or your abstract will NOT be printed or posted on the website. Please update us if you cannot attend so we may free up poster space in the Grand Exhibit Hall where exhibits and coffee breaks are just steps from the Atlas Foyer. Don't forget to check out the Travel Grant Applications; the deadlines are closing soon. The meeting will again offer the satellite sessions and workshops as presented in earlier conferences. A couple of new workshops this time are "Genomics of Plant Disease Resistance" and "Recombination". There will be over 100 technical, industry, and computer training workshops. The meeting draft for PAG-XVII and abstracts from PG-I through PAG-XVI are available on the PAG website at: http://intl-pag.org/ We are requesting that all abstracts be submitted electronically. Point your browser to the address below and click on the "Abstracts Submission" link when ready to submit your abstract at: http://intl-pag.org/ Due to severe delays in getting VISAs to enter the US, we recommend that you plan ahead and begin the process now. DO NOT WAIT! See the information link at the web site as updates are provided. All researchers presenting posters must pre-register for the meeting to have their abstract printed in the final meeting program. The abstract DEADLINE is Friday, October 3, 2008. Registration is available via the internet using our secure on-line registration form. Full Conference (Univ/Non-Profit/Govt) Registration for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 1, 2008): $550 Late Registration (after November 1, 2008): $650 On-site Registration: $750 Full Conference (Industry) Registration for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 1, 2008): $750 Late Registration (after November 1, 2008): $850 On-site Registration: $950 Weekend Only (Univ/Non-Profit/Govt) Registration (Fri/Sat/Sun) for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 1, 2008): $375 Late Registration (after November 1, 2008): $425 On-site Registration: $475 Weekend Only (Industry) Registration (Fri/Sat/Sun) for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 1, 2008): $475 Late Registration (after November 1, 2008): $525 On-site Registration: $575 Student Registration (proof required): Pre-Registration (deadline November 1, 2008): $350 Late Registration (after November 1, 2008): $400 All questions regarding Plant & Animal Genome XVII should be directed to Scherago Int'l at Tel: 201-653-4777 ext. 20, Fax: 201-653-5705 or Email: pag@scherago.com. Sincerely, Darrin Scherago - VP, Meeting Manager Scherago International, Inc. 525 Washington Blvd., Suite 3310, Jersy City, NJ 07310 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plant & Animal Genome XVII Conference ---------------- January 10-14, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ipmb2009 from missouri.edu Fri Sep 5 18:29:58 2008 From: ipmb2009 from missouri.edu (IPMB 2009 Conference) Date: Fri Sep 5 22:14:41 2008 Subject: [Bionews] 9th IPMB Congress, St. Louis, MO, Oct 25-30, 2009 Message-ID: <200809052329.m85NTwcX027764@www.intl-pag.org> Dear Colleague: You are invited to attend the 9th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), October 25-30, 2009 taking place in St. Louis, Missouri. Please look at the following website for all necessary information on this Congress which is composed of 53 symposia and 9 Plenary Lectures on all aspects of plant molecular biology. http://www.ipmb.2009.org Sincerely, Perry Gustafson - Chair IPMB 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, October 25-30, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Wed Sep 10 23:50:05 2008 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Thu Sep 11 16:36:02 2008 Subject: [Bionews] CFP/Bursary Awards- eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting/India 08 Message-ID: <89882e14-7097-4468-a524-ba27b94b0502@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting in December 2008 in Hyderabad, India. Please note that the deadline to apply for bursaries is September 19, 2008. Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Modelling & Informatics eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting December 19-20, 2008 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India Pre-Conference Workshop - Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications (December 15 – 18) Conference Link: http://echeminfo.colayer.net/COMTY_hyderabadconference Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Screening, Docking, Structural Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME Conference Sessions: Biophysical Simulation Applications, Neglected Diseases Applications, Drug Discovery Informatics, Predictive ADME/ Toxicology We invite contributed papers from members of academic, government research and commercial organizations on areas of new research and innovation involving drug discovery research informatics. The work presented should involve innovative new method development or application to drug discovery problems and involving methods from computational chemistry, computational biology, cheminformatics or bioinformatics. Studies including experimental work in medicinal chemistry, screening, experimental toxicology, pre-clinical evaluation, lead optimisation and translational medicine are welcome. Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted to echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com by 19 September 2008, and be accompanied by a short biography of the presenting author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific organizing committee will be selected for scheduling on the conference program and in meeting poster sessions. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of submitted materials takes place and at the latest by 30 September 2008. Bursary Awards Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic young investigators at the meeting. Applicants can be working in any area of research related to drug discovery at the postdoctoral, graduate student and senior undergraduate levels. To apply for the bursary please send an email with a) your abstract and biography (300-500 words each), b) your CV of 1-2 pages, c) a short description of your interests and career motivations related to drug discovery (300-500 words) to echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com by 19 September 2008. The recipients of the bursary awards will be selected based on an evaluation of the quality and innovation of the described research and the potential positive impact of attendance at the meeting on their research and career progress. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 30 September 2008. Speakers *Conference Sessions:* Biophysical Simulation Applications, chaired by V.N. Balaji (Jubilant Biosys) Neglected Diseases Applications, chaired by Avadhesha Surolia (National Institute of Immunology) Drug Discovery Informatics, chaired by G.R.Desiraju (University of Hyderabad) Predictive ADME/Toxicology, chaired by Kas Subramanian (Strand Genomics) *Invited Speakers* include Chandra Verma (Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR, Singapore), Sreedhar Rao (Ranbaxy), Chandrika B-Rao (Piramal Life Sciences), Vellarkad N. Viswanadhan (Jubilant Biosys), R. Narayanan (Tata Consultancy Services), Johann Gasteiger (Molecular Networks, Germany), Jeff Wiseman (Locus Pharmaceuticals, USA), Indira Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi, India), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect, Switzerland), Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India), Ismael Zamora (Pompeu Fabra University and Lead Molecular Design, Spain) Scientific Advisory Board: Johann Gasteiger, Molecular Networks, Germany; Barry Hardy, Douglas Connect, Switzerland; Christoph Helma, inSilico Toxicology, Germany; Anton Hopfinger, University of New Mexico, USA; Jeff Wiseman, Locus Pharmaceuticals, USA; P.Balaram, IISC, India; Tanjore Balganesh, AstraZeneca, India; D. Balasubramanian, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, India; M. K. Bhan, Secretary, DBT, India; Davinder S. Brar, GVK Biosciences, India; Samir Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, India; Dr. Gowrishankar, CDFD, India; Seyed Hasnain, VC, HCU, India; Rajendra Prasad, JNU, India; S. Purohit, CDAC, India; T. Ramasami, Secretary, DST, India; Lalji Singh, CCMB, India; M. Vijayan, IISC, India; J. S. Yadav, IICT, India; K. Lalitha, UoH, India; S. Mande, CDFD, India; Dr. Narayanan, TCS, India; C.K. Mitra, UoH, India; J.A.R.P Sarma, GVK Biosciences; R. Sankaranarayanan, CCMB; Narahari Sastry, IICT Pre-Conference Workshop - Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications December (15 – 18) Virtual screening, structure-based drug design, lead optimisation and predictive ADME/toxicology supporting decision making in drug discovery – a Hands-on eCheminfo Workshop Bursary award available Co-organised in Partnership by IIIT Hyderabad , JNU NewDelhi , Seascape Learning, and Douglas Connect December 15-18, 2008; IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India facilitated by Barry Hardy Work through in detail and discuss practical examples, methods and emerging techniques with leading modelling experts! Virtual Screening & Docking, Structure-based Drug Design, Ligand Optimisation & Library Design Structure Search, Similarity and Property Estimation, Data Mining, Analysis & Visualisation, Pharmacophore Modelling for Lead Identification, Fragment-based Drug Design, Predictive ADME, QSAR- based Predictive Toxicology Please visit http://echeminfo.colayer.net/comty_hyderabadworkshop08 For further information and questions on the Conference program, please contact Dr. Barry Hardy at: barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0170 . For international registrations, please contact Nicki Douglas, nicki.douglas –[at]- douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0461 If you are located in India, please contact Sunil Chawla at: sunil - [at] -seascapelearning.com, Tel: +91 981 0305 923 or Om Prakash at Tel: +91 971 7040 656 to complete your registration and payment in Rs. For more information, please visit http://seascapelearning.com/echeminfo_reg.html Rob Reedijk eCheminfo Community of Practice From ipmb2009 from missouri.edu Thu Sep 11 14:54:13 2008 From: ipmb2009 from missouri.edu (IPMB 2009 Conference) Date: Thu Sep 11 16:36:17 2008 Subject: [Bionews] 9th IPMB Congress, St. Louis, MO, Oct 25-30, 2009 Message-ID: <200809111954.m8BJsD4Y001875@www.intl-pag.org> Dear Colleague: You are invited to attend the 9th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), October 25-30, 2009 taking place in St. Louis, Missouri. Please look at the following website for all necessary information on this Congress which is composed of 53 symposia and 9 Plenary Lectures on all aspects of plant molecular biology. http://www.ipmb2009.org Sincerely, Perry Gustafson - Chair IPMB 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, October 25-30, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Apologies, the URL sent from a previous message has been corrected here.] From paolo.romano from istge.it Mon Sep 15 08:47:15 2008 From: paolo.romano from istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Mon Sep 15 11:38:47 2008 Subject: [Bionews] CFP: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) Message-ID: <200809151402.m8FE2ciw043958@ibm43p.biotech.ist.unige.it> International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 28th November 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://www.swat4ls.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS Overview -------- The workshop is organized in sessions and open discussions. Invited speakers will present state-of-the-art, provocative lectures on the workshop's main topic, while a number of submissions will be accepted as oral presentations and posters on all workshop's topics. Workshop Description -------------------- Semantic Web technologies, tools and applications are starting to emerge in Life Sciences. In recent years, systems have been introduced and an increasing interest among researchers is arising. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of these technologies and tools in biomedical informatics and computational biology. It will showcase experiences, information resources, tools development and applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and some real use cases for Semantic Web technologies in Life Sciences. Keynote Speakers ------------------------ + Semantic web technology in translational cancer research, Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA + Using Ontologies to bring Web Services on to the Semantic Web Mark Wilkinson, Dept. of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Canada Workshop Venue and Format ------------------------ The workshop will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 November 2008, and is hosted by the e-Science Institute of the UK's National e-Science Centre (NeSC). SWAT4LS will be a one-day workshop and will consist of two invited talks, regular paper and poster presentations. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion on the strength and weaknesses of the Semantic Web for the Life Sciences. Deadlines --------- * Submission deadline (both papers and posters): 30 September 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2008 * Camera-ready submission: 3 November 2008 (Authors who are interested in submitting a paper/poster to the workshop, but may require a short extension to the deadline, should get in touch with the organisers.) Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web o Semantic Web standards (RDF, OWL, ...) o RDF/OWL, SKOS, .... and their applicability to bioinformatics o RDF Schemas and Query systems o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools o Formal approaches to large biomedical controlled terminologies and vocabularies * Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Bio-ontologies, RDF stores, Semantic Web Services o RDF repositories and query systems for life sciences o Semantically aware biomedical Web Services o Semantic Biological Data Integration Systems * Existing and perspective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Semantic browsers, Semantic collaborative research o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios o Semantic Web applications in life sciences Type of contributions ---------------------- The following possible original contributions are sought: * Oral communications (regular papers) * Posters * Software demos All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/). Furthermore, a selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the BMC Bioinformatics journal devoted to the SWAT4LS workshop. To this end, a special Call will be launched shortly after the workshop, for extended and revised versions of contributions submitted to the workshop and accepted either as oral communication or poster. Workshop Chairs ---------------- + Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, United Kingdom + Adrian Paschke, Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany + Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy + Andrea Splendiani, Medical Informatics Department, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: - National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy - Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany - School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Universit? de Rennes 1, Rennes, France - e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom - SeaLife Project, European Commission Information Society and Media - Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Technologies in Bioinformatics (LITBIO), Italy ===================================================================== For any information, refer to info@swat4ls.org . Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) Bioinformatics National Cancer Research Institute (IST) Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy Tel: +39-010-5737-288 Fax: +39-010-5737-295 From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Tue Sep 16 05:49:43 2008 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Tue Sep 16 09:12:57 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Modelling for Systems Biology Message-ID: <48CF8F47.9080508@manchester.ac.uk> The University of Manchester, UK, has funding from the BBSRC (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/) to run three online courses in Mathematical Modelling for Systems Biology. The courses are: Bioinformatics for Systems Biology Mathematics for metabolic modelling Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks The first of these courses, Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, will begin again on 6 October 2008. It provides an introduction to the data and modelling methods for systems biology. The final section introduces dynamic models, preparing participants for the our advanced course in 'Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks'. The course outline for 'Bioinformatics for Systems Biology' is available here : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/index.html For further information, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk From jt6 from sanger.ac.uk Mon Sep 22 06:43:25 2008 From: jt6 from sanger.ac.uk (John Tate) Date: Mon Sep 22 12:38:57 2008 Subject: [Bionews] Announcing Pfam release 23.0 Message-ID: <48D784DD.1000305@sanger.ac.uk> Pfam 23.0 is now available from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus and Stockholm Bioinformatics Centre. This release contains a total of 10340 families, with 1063 new families and 52 families killed since the latest release. 73.75% of all proteins in Pfamseq contain a match to at least one Pfam domain. 51.22% of all residues in the sequence database fall within Pfam domains. Pfam 23.0 is based on UniProt release 12.5, a composite of Swiss-Prot release 54.5 and TrEMBL release 37.5. http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Tate Phone: (+44/0)1223 494 724 The Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: jt6@sanger.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Hall, Protein families database (Pfam) Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. From paolo.romano from istge.it Mon Sep 29 09:31:35 2008 From: paolo.romano from istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Mon Sep 29 11:19:06 2008 Subject: [Bionews] CFP: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) Message-ID: <200809291444.m8TEiTUs006258@ibm43p.biotech.ist.unige.it> Apologies, if you're receiving multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 28th November 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://www.swat4ls.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS NEW DEADLINE: Submission deadline has been postponed to 13 October 2008. See attached Call for Papers Keynote Speakers ------------------------ + Semantic web technology in translational cancer research, Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA + Using Ontologies to bring Web Services on to the Semantic Web Mark Wilkinson, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Deadlines --------- * NEW! Submission deadline (both papers and posters): 13 October 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2008 * Camera-ready submission: 3 November 2008 * Workshop: 28 November 2008 All accepted contributions will be published with the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/). A selection of papers will be published in a BMC Bioinformatics Supplement devoted to the SWAT4LS. For any information, refer to info@swat4ls.org . Best regards. Paolo Romano (on behalf of all Chairs) Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) Bioinformatics National Cancer Research Institute (IST) Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy Tel: +39-010-5737-288 Fax: +39-010-5737-295