* * * CALL for ABSTRACTS and TUTORIAL PROPOSALS * * *
9th Annual CONFERENCE on COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS CG '06
OCTOBER 28-31, 2006
Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore MD, USA
Deadline for submission: AUGUST 11
Keynote speakers
BARRY J. MARSHALL
University of Western Australia
Nobel Laureate, 2005
DAVID HAUSSLER
University of California, Santa Cruz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Conference website: http://www.conted.vt.edu/genomics
The organizers of the 9th Annual Conference on Computational Genomics
invite you to submit abstracts and tutorial proposals on COMPUTATIONAL
BIOLOGY and BIOINFORMATICS.
CG'06 is a multidisciplinary symposium that provides a forum for the
presentation and discussion of original research on computational
biology and bioinformatics. CG'06 welcomes contributions from both
academic and industrial researchers.
The major themes for CG'06 are
- Bioinformatics for infectious diseases
- High-throughput automated genome annotation
- Bioinformatics for biological networks
Other topics include (but are not limited to):
Algorithms for Problems in Computational Biology
Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data Mining
Comparative Genomics
Computational Proteomics
Computational Systems Biology
Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression
Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
Molecular Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching
Protein Structure and Modeling
Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Structural and Functional Genomics
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Additional confirmed invited speakers:
JOEL BADER Johns Hopkins University
TIM HUBBARD Sanger Centre
OLGA TROYANSKAYA Princeton University
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract/tutorial submission: August 11, 2006, midnight GMT
Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2006
Early registration (reduced fees): September 28, 2006
On-line registration deadline: October 13, 2006
(after this date, please call 540.231.5182)
ABSTRACT/TUTORIAL PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
Information and instructions on how to submit abstracts or tutorial
proposals electronically are available at:
http://www.conted.vt.edu/genomics/abstracts.html
The program committee will evaluate all abstracts. Accepted
abstracts will be selected for oral or for poster presentations.
The authors of selected tutorials will be offered free registration.
CG '06 SPONSORS
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
The Jackson Laboratory
The Institute for Genomic Research
Virginia Tech
The National Human Genome Institute
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