From pelikan from cs.umsl.edu Sat Aug 2 04:48:20 2008 From: pelikan from cs.umsl.edu (Martin Pelikan) Date: Sat Aug 2 13:03:36 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] GECCO-2009 in Montreal, Canada, July 8-12, 2009 Message-ID: <822705.73028.qm@web45110.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009) July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday) Montreal, Canada PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 14, 2009 (Wednesday) http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ Organized by ACM SIGEVO ------------------------------------------------------------ 18th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 14th Genetic Programming Conference (GP) ------------------------------------------------------------ One Conference - Many Mini-Conferences - 15 Program Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009) will present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Topics include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics, coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline January 14, 2009 Decision Notification March 11, 2009 Camera-ready Submission April 22, 2009 VENUE Delta Centre-Ville hotel is located in the heart of downtown, where Old Montreal and new Montreal blend seamlessly, and adjacent to vibrant nightlife, boutique shops and eclectic cuisine. For more information on Delta Centre-Ville, please visit http://www.deltahotels.com/hotels/hotels.php?hotelId=35 Visiting GECCO-2009 will be a great opportunity to visit the famous Montreal Jazz Festival (July 2-12, 2009): http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/Fijm2008/festival_en.aspx MORE INFORMATION Visit http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009 for information about electronic submission procedures, formatting details, student travel grants, the latest list of tutorials and workshop, late-breaking papers, and more. CONTACT For technical matters, contact Conference Chair Franz Rothlauf at rothlauf@uni-mainz.de For conference administration matters contact Primary Support Staff at gecco-admin@tigerscience.com GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. From youssefh from microsoft.com Mon Aug 4 11:12:44 2008 From: youssefh from microsoft.com (Youssef Hamadi (MSR - Cambridge)) Date: Mon Aug 4 12:11:24 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] 1 Post-doc position is open in the area of optimization applied to bioinformatics in Orsay, France Message-ID: <5f540fa3-64c2-41c5-b0d2-178c6bb808c2@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested students. -------- 1 Post-doc position is open in the area of optimization applied to bioinformatics in Orsay, France. Context: Optimization and search methods for combinatorial or mixed discrete- continuous problems are reaching a mature state that allows users to tackle real-world problems in an efficient way. However, both exact methods (e.g. Constraint Programming) and heuristic and meta-heuristic approaches (e.g. Evolutionary Algorithms) have to face the critical issue of parameter tuning, that remains problem- and even instance- dependent, and requires past experience of the algorithm being used. The selected candidate will reinforce the Adaptive Combinatorial Search project, whose objective is to set up automatic tuning methods for search algorithms in e-science, allowing scientists who have little knowledge of the search technique itself to nevertheless solve their optimization problem without the need for some "optimization engineer". Relying on Machine Learning and statistical techniques, the project addresses both off-line and on-line tuning issues, at the problem level as well as at the instance level. The target algorithms are Constraint Programming, building on the expertise of the Constraint Reasoning Group at MSR, and meta-heuristics, with a particular emphasis on Evolutionary Algorithms, one research area of the TAO project-team at INRIA Futurs. The position will be located at the new INRIA-Microsoft Joint lab in Orsay, France (http://www.msr-inria.inria.fr). Suitable Profiles: ------------------- Post-doc candidates *must have completed their PhD*. Ideal candidates should have a strong experience in bio-informatics, search, and Machine Learning. * Competencies: Computational Biology, Constraint Programming, Meta- heuristics, Machine Learning. * Technical skills: C, C++, C#, Matlab. * Additional competencies: French. Salary: -------- Standard French public Post-doc package. Contact: -------- Send full CV and at least two letters of reference to 'youssefh at microsoft dot com'. From finocchi from di.uniroma1.it Wed Aug 6 10:12:18 2008 From: finocchi from di.uniroma1.it (Irene Finocchi) Date: Wed Aug 6 10:35:43 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] ALENEX 2009: call for papers Message-ID: <5e953910808060812v5ecb0c25t2e694dba6ec07b4b@mail.gmail.com> ************************************************************************ 11th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments ALENEX 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS January 3, 2009 New York City, New York http://www.siam.org/meetings/alenex09/ ************************************************************************ SCOPE The aim of the ALENEX workshop is to provide a forum for presentation of original research in the implementation and experimental evaluation of algorithms and data structures. We invite submissions that present significant case studies in experimental analysis (such studies may tighten, extend, or otherwise improve current theoretical results) or in the implementation, testing, and evaluation of algorithms for realistic environments and scenarios, including specific applied areas (databases, networks, operations research, computational biology and physics, computational geometry, and the world wide web) that present unique challenges in their underlying algorithmic problems. We also invite submissions that address methodological issues and standards in the context of empirical research on algorithms and data structures. The scientific program will include time for discussion and debate of topics in this rapidly evolving research area. The workshop is supported by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and by SIGACT (ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory). It precedes the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA09), being held on January 4-6, 2009, and takes place on the same day as the Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO09). Since researchers in both fields are approaching the problem of learning detailed information about the performance of particular algorithms, we expect that interesting synergies will develop. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: October 1, 2008 Notification to authors: mid-November, 2008 Final version: mid-December, 2008 Workshop: January 3, 2009 SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract electronically by October 1, 2008 (11:59 EDT PM, strict deadline). The electronic submission server is at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alenex09 The abstract must consist of at most 10 pages. Results omitted due to space constraints can be put into a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. The proceedings of ALENEX will be published openly and electronically by SIAM. A special issue of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) will be dedicated to selected papers from ALENEX09. Authors of accepted papers are also strongly encouraged to submit publicly available code and data to JEA Research Code Repository (http://www.jea.acm.org/repository/). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Susanne Albers, Universitat Freiburg, Germany Mark de Berg, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands Kenneth Clarkson, IBM Research Mike Fellows, University of Newcastle, Australia Irene Finocchi (co-chair), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Efi Fogel, Tel Aviv University, Israel Stefan Funke, Universitat Greifswald, Germany John Hershberger (co-chair), Mentor Graphics Corporation, Calibre Division Jyrki Katajainen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Piyush Kumar, Florida State University Rina Panigrahy, Microsoft Research CONTACT ADDRESSES For further information please visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/alenex09/ From lidiomarx from gmail.com Fri Aug 8 13:34:06 2008 From: lidiomarx from gmail.com (Lidio Meireles) Date: Fri Aug 8 14:37:03 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Molecular volume calculation Message-ID: I need to calculate the molecular volume in Angs^3 for a series of compounds. Could anyone suggest me a software? Thanks. Lidio From krrupesh from yahoo.com Fri Aug 8 14:44:10 2008 From: krrupesh from yahoo.com (K. R. Rupesh) Date: Fri Aug 8 18:15:19 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Molecular volume calculation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <745824.51626.qm@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi Lidio, Please click on this link http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3938/is_200501/ai_n9476542/pg_3 I guess it would help your problem. --- On Fri, 8/8/08, Lidio Meireles wrote: From: Lidio Meireles Subject: [Computational-biology] Molecular volume calculation To: comp-bio@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:34 PM I need to calculate the molecular volume in Angs^3 for a series of compounds. Could anyone suggest me a software? Thanks. Lidio _______________________________________________ Comp-bio mailing list Comp-bio@net.bio.net http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/comp-bio From reddy from cs.wayne.edu Mon Aug 11 19:10:33 2008 From: reddy from cs.wayne.edu (Chandan K. Reddy) Date: Mon Aug 11 19:30:32 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] CFP: ACM SAC Data Mining Track Message-ID: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Special Track on Data Mining Honolulu, Hawaii March 8-12, 2009 http://database.cs.wayne.edu/sac2009/ CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to solicit original, unpublished and novel papers for publication and presentation in the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Track on Data Mining. Articles describing novel ideas and applications in all areas of data mining are of interest. This year, emphasis and special considerations will be given to papers addressing issues in scientific data exploration and mining. 2009 ACM SAC Data Mining Track will be held at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from March 8-12, 2009. ACM SAC Data Mining has a successful history of accepting quality papers and offering a stimulating platform for the exchange of ideas and dissiminating cutting edge research to the community. The 2009 ACM SAC Data Mining Track is the eighth such event in the 23 years of ACM SAC tradition. The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing is recognized as a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest Groups. For more information on ACM SAC 2009, please visit http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/. Paper Registration and Submission Guidelines: Authors must register their intent to submit a paper using the conference management system, eCMS system at http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/. Authors will use this system for formal paper submission and other correspondence. All papers should represent original and previously unpublished work that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. The submitted papers should follow the template found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm. Submitted papers must not be more than 8 pages long in this template. Papers that fail to comply with length limitations risk rejection. Although the submitted version may be of 8 pages long, the final version cannot be more that 5 pages long without any extra page fee. Authors of accepted papers may purchase upto 3 extra pages (a total of 8 pages per paper) at the rate of $80 (US) per page. ACM SAC follows a double blind review process. Consequently, the author(s) name(s) and address(s) must NOT appear in the body of the submitted paper, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate double blind review required by ACM. All submitted papers must include the paper identification number provided by the eCMS system when the paper is first registered. The number must appear on the front page, above the title of the paper. All enquiries and questions should be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details are available on the track home page at http://database.cs.wayne.edu/sac2009/ and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009. Paper Publication: All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Hence, all accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera-ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The final version of the paper should not be more than 5 pages long. Poster Publication of Selected Papers: A set of selected papers will be accepted as poster papers by invitation only and will be published as short papers in the symposium proceedings. Paper Submission Deadlines: Registration of papers by authors: August 23, 2008 Submission of papers by authors: August 23, 2008 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: October 11, 2008 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 25, 2008 Track Chair: Hasan Jamil Department of Computer Science Wayne State University USA Email: jamil[at]cs.wayne.edu Track Co-Chairs: Chandan Reddy Department of Computer Science Wayne State University USA E-mail: reddy[at]cs.wayne.edu Osmar Zaiane Department of Computer Science University of Alberta Canada E-mail: zaiane[at]cs.ualberta.ca Program Committee: Niall M. Adams Imperial College London, United Kingdom Reda Alhajj U of Calgary and Global U., Lebanon Fabrizio Angiulli University of Clabria, Italy Annalisa Appice Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Italy Vijay Atluri Rutgers University,United States Elena Baralis Politecnico di Torino, Italy Ken Barker University of Calgary, Canada Francesco Bonchi ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Toon Calders Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Michelangelo Ceci University of Bari, Italy Jose Alfredo F. Costa Federal University, UFRN Bruno Cremilleux University of Caen, France Alfredo Cuzzocrea University of Calabria,Italy Fosca Giannotti KDD Lab. - Istituto ISTI, Italy Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma ,United States Sherri Harms University of Nebraska at Kearney, United States Jochen Hipp Daimler AG, Germany Tin Kam Ho Bell Labs Research, United States Wynne Hsu National University of Singapore,Singapore Hasan Jamil Wayne State University, United States Szymon Jaroszewicz National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Kristian Kersting Massachusetts Institute of Technologie, United States Sang-Wook Kim Hanyang University, Korea Jiri Klema Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Stefan Kramer TU M?nchen,Germany Marzena Kryszkiewicz Warsaw University of Technology,Poland Ulf Leser Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin,Germany Jinyan Li Nanyang Technological University,Singapore Xiaohui Liu Brunel University, United Kingdom Giuseppe Manco ICAR-CNR, Italy Rosa Meo University of Torino, Italy Taneli Mielikainen Nokia, United States Yasuhiko Morimoto Hiroshima University, Japan Shinichi Morishita IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory,Japan Miyuki Nakano University of Tokyo,Japan Rajesh Natarajan Hexaware Technologies Limited, India Jean-Pierre Norguet Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Salvatore Orlando ISTI-CNR & Universit? Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Stefano Paraboschi University of Bergamo, Italy Clara Pizzuti Italian National Research Council(CNR), Italy Sanguthevar Rajasekaran University of Connecticut, United States Ralf Rantzau IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, United States Jan Rauch University of Economics, Prague,Czech Republic Celine Robardet INSA-LYON, France Lorenza Saitta Universit? di Torino,Italy Daniel Sanchez University of Granada, Spain Maria-Luisa Sapino, Universita di Torino Yucel Saygin Sabanci University, Turkey Jouni K. Sepp?nen Xtract, Finland Balasubramaniam Shekar Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Claudio Silvestri University Statale di Milano, Italy Simeon Simoff University of Technology, Sydney,Australia Mingjun Song University of Connecticut, United States Thanaruk Theeramunkong Thammasat University, Thailand Yannis Theodoridis University of Piraeus, Greece Franco Turini Universit? di Pisa,Italy Panos Vassiliadis Univ. of Ioannina, Greece Raymond Wong University of New South Wales, Australia Philip Yu IBM, TJ Watson Research Center Osmar Zaiane University of Alberta, Canada Kang Zhang University of Texas at Dallas, United States Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, China From darek.kedra from gmail.com Tue Aug 12 09:16:48 2008 From: darek.kedra from gmail.com (darked) Date: Tue Aug 12 12:18:04 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Re: Molecular volume calculation References: Message-ID: <913f64c8-3ae2-4664-a244-86d961e13901@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> On Aug 8, 7:34 pm, "Lidio Meireles" wrote: > I need to calculate the molecular volume in Angs^3 for a series of compounds. > Could anyone suggest me a software? Thanks. > > Lidio This one takes SMILES: http://www.molinspiration.com/cgi-bin/properties?textMode=1 darked http://openwetware.org/wiki/Wikiomics From orry.molsoft from gmail.com Mon Aug 18 18:18:24 2008 From: orry.molsoft from gmail.com (Andrew Orry) Date: Tue Aug 19 13:57:15 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop - MolSoft October 2-3 2008 Message-ID: <48AA0340.5060206@molsoft.com> MolSoft ICM Workshop: "Protein Structure and Drug Discovery" October 2nd to 3rd 2008 La Jolla, CA. Please see the following invitation to attend MolSoft's (www.molsoft.com) Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop on October 2nd to 3rd 2008 in La Jolla, California USA. See www.molsoft.com/training.html for more information and a registration form. Our workshops are suitable for chemists and biologists who would like to learn more about computational drug discovery and bioinformatics. No prior knowledge in this field is required to participate. The workshop is presented by Prof. Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute) and Dr. Maxim Totrov (MolSoft). The workshops will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and "hands-on" computational experiments and will cover the following topics: - Sequence and Protein Structure Analysis - Protein Modeling and Simulations - Structure Validation and Optimization - Ligand Binding Site Prediction - Small Molecule Docking and Virtual Ligand Screening - Structure-based development of target-specific compound libraries - Cheminformatics, chemical clustering, searching, superposition etc - QSAR, machine learning - Protein-Protein Docking We will demonstrate and train you in the use of many of our new developments in computational chemistry and biology including: - 3D Ligand Editor - design and optimize ligands interactively - Markush Library Docking - Multiple Receptor Docking (A method to incorporate receptor flexibility) - Automated model building into electron density - Atomic property field chemical superposition - Fast machine learning tools for QSAR - Pharmacophore drawing and searching - Compound library enumeration tools - Screen-grabbing movie making "The objective of this training workshop is to help chemists and biologists solve challenging problems in the area of drug discovery by efficient use of the science and technology present in ICM molecular modeling tools." Prof. Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute and Co-Founder of Molsoft LLC) Please see our website at www.molsoft.com for more details or E mail andy@molsoft.com or call (858) 625 2000 ext.108. Please join the ICM Discussion Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/molsoft-icm-forum Latest Newsletter: http://www.molsoft.com/july08.html MolSoft is a La Jolla based company that is a primary source of new breakthrough technologies in computational chemistry and biology. Molsoft is committed to solving intellectually challenging problems in drug discovery and computational biology. -- Andrew Orry Ph.D. Senior Scientist MolSoft LLC 3366 North Torrey Pines Court Suite 300 La Jolla, CA 92037 U S A Phone: (858) 625-2000 (x108) Fax: (858) 625-2888 www.molsoft.com From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Wed Aug 27 01:39:38 2008 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Wed Aug 27 12:30:11 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Distance courses in Bioinformatics Message-ID: <48B4F6AA.8090904@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 Aug 27 08:48:44 2008 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Wed Aug 27 12:30:57 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Bursary Award - eCheminfo Community of Practice Workshop, India, December 2008 Message-ID: I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications Workshop Meeting in December 2008 in Hyderabad, India. Please note that the deadline to apply for the bursary is September 12, 2008. Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications Workshop December 15-18, 2008 IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India Please visit http://echeminfo.colayer.net/comty_hyderabadworkshop08 Virtual screening, structure-based drug design, lead optimisation and predictive ADME/toxicology supporting decision making in drug discovery a Hands-on eCheminfo Workshop This workshop precedes the “Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Modelling & Informatics” eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting December 19-20, 2008 Co-organised in Partnership by IIIT Hyderabad , JNU NewDelhi , Seascape Learning, and Douglas Connect 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 These workshops are aimed to provide a set of stimulating workshops using latest advanced modelling techniques of relevance to chemists, life scientists and modellers working in drug discovery. Participants should return to their labs with new ideas, best practices and software experiences to maximise productivity in their own drug discovery research activities. Workshop groups will study problems with hands-on examples using leading-edge software and discuss complex issues highlighted by examples and case studies presented by instructors. Software packages and an IT classroom will be used by instructors and participants to work through drug discovery and optimisation problems. Participants may propose problems and issues to the faculty ahead of the workshop. Participants will also have ample opportunity to discuss their perspectives and criticisms of the methods studied and should take-away key nuggets of understanding from these intensive sessions. Workshop Leaders Johann Gasteiger (Molecular Networks, Germany), Jeff Wiseman (Locus Pharmaceuticals, USA), Indira Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi, India), Paul Hawkins (OpenEye, USA), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect, Switzerland), Peter Oledzki (BioSolveIT, Germany), Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India), Ismael Zamora (Pompeu Fabra University and Lead Molecular Design, Spain), Wojciech Plonka (Fujitsu Group, Japan), Madhavi Sastry (Schrodinger) A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of one academic participant at the workshop. Please visit http://echeminfo.colayer.net/comty_hyderabadworkshop08 For further information and questions on the Workshop 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: +91 985 0709 150 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 ursvinodsingh02 from gmail.com Fri Aug 29 06:18:22 2008 From: ursvinodsingh02 from gmail.com (vinod kumar singh) Date: Fri Aug 29 10:09:11 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] PINNACLE08 Message-ID: Dear members, We are very pleased to announce that the Bioinformatics Division of the School of Biotechnology, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering of VIT University is organising PINNACLE ' 08, a National Level two day technical fest. The fest comprises of 15 core and non- core events that includes paper and poster presentation , guest lectures, programming and debugging, career counselling, workshop and many more. Topics for paper and poster presentations (not limited to) : 1. Proteomics and Genomics 2. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship 3. Microarray Informatics 4. Pharmacogenomics 5. Tools in Structural Bioinformatics 6. Biomolecular Modelling and Simulation 7. Immunoinformatics and Biochemical Pathways 8. Systems Biology 9. Molecular Biology 10. Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithm 11. Biological Data Mining and Database designing 12. Chemoinformatics Last date for the submission of abstracts: Paper - 24 sep 2008 Poster - 30 sep 2008 For more details logon to: http://www.vit.ac.in/pinnacle08/ For any queries mail us at pinnacle08bioinfofest@gmail.com Regards, Organising Commitee Pinnacle08