From dacheng.tao from gmail.com Thu Apr 2 05:07:36 2009 From: dacheng.tao from gmail.com (Dacheng Tao) Date: Thu Apr 2 11:29:39 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] CFP CAIP'09: The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Message-ID: * We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. * PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. Many thanks= ! * The submission deadline has been extended to 14th April 2009 accoridng to a lot of requests. CALL FOR PAPERS The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP=9209) September 2-4, 2009, M=FCnster, Germany Scope: CAIP is a series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and processing, pattern recognition and related fields. It has been held since 1985 and the last conference sites were Warsaw (2001), Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), and Vienna (2007). Additional information about the CAIP conference series can be found at: http://caip.eu.org/. The proposed scope of CAIP=9209 includes, but not limited to, the following areas: =95 3D Vision =95 3D TV =95 Biometrics =95 Color and texture =95 Document analysis =95 Graph-based Methods =95 Image and video indexing and database retrieval =95 Image and video processing =95 Image-based modeling =95 Kernel methods =95 Medical imaging =95 Mobile multimedia =95 Model-based vision approaches =95 Motion Analysis =95 Non-photorealistic animation and rendering =95 Object recognition =95 Performance evaluation =95 Segmentation and grouping =95 Shape representation and analysis =95 Structural pattern recognition =95 Tracking =95 Applications Paper Submission: Papers must be formatted in the LNCS format. Paper submission instructions can be found at conference website. Publication: The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A special issue with selected best papers will be published in Pattern Recognition Journal. Important Dates: Paper submission: April 14, 2009 Author notification: May 25, 2009 Final manuscript due: June 10, 2009 Conference Chairs: Xiaoyi Jiang, University of M=FCnster, Germany Nicolai Petkov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Publicity Chair: Dacheng Tao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Steering Committee: Andr=E9 Gagalowicz (F) Reinhard Klette (NZ) Walter Kropatsch (A) Nicolai Petkov (NL) Gerald Sommer (D) Local Organization Committee: Hildegard Brunstering Daniel Abdala Mohamed Dawood Lucas Franek Sergej Lewin Kai Rothaus Steffen Wachenfeld Pakaket Wattuya Conference Website: http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/CAIP2009/ Inquiries: caip-09@uni-muenster.de --=20 Dacheng TAO School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798. Office: Blk N4,02b-67 Phone: +65 6790 6250 Fax: +65 6792 6559 URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/dctao From oscadd from gmail.com Wed Apr 1 13:44:50 2009 From: oscadd from gmail.com (Raghava) Date: Mon Apr 6 09:12:51 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Bioinformatics Suite Message-ID: <96acd60f-c5e2-426d-9560-87b401dfb085@v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Dear Colleagues Our group have developed number of webservers (http:// www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ ) over th\ e years. I got lot of request related to i) availability of source code; ii) perl scripts\ used to build software; iii) standalone version of methods. In order to help our bioinfo\ rmatics users particularly young developers who wish to develop bioinformatics programs; f\ irst time we are releasing source code (written in PERL) for public. I hope these perl scr\ ipts will be useful for bioinformatics community. Codes are available from http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/gpsr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsraghava/ This is just starting, we will release all software to public in next one year. I will app\ reciate you comment/suggestion/feedback on this package GPSR. Regards Raghava ====================================================== # Dr G P S Raghava, Scientist and Head Bioinformatics Centre # # Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India # # Phone: +91-172-2690557, Fax: +91-172-2690632 # # Eadd: http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ raghava@imtech.res.in # #===================================================== From xlli from i2r.a-star.edu.sg Wed Apr 8 03:03:01 2009 From: xlli from i2r.a-star.edu.sg (Li Xiaoli) Date: Wed Apr 8 11:38:11 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Call for Paper: International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics Message-ID: <162B8AFBFBBB2148A9A1B8F9C575342806DC0E59@mailbe01.teak.local.net> Dear Colleages, We are writing to invite you to submit an article to the new International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB): http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb . The mission of IJKDB is to increase awareness of interesting and challenging biomedical problems and to inspire new knowledge discovery solutions which can be translated into further biological and clinical studies. IJKDB provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research articles on computational knowledge discovery methods as well as discovery notes that report newly found biological discoveries using computational techniques. In addition to the original research articles, IJKDB emphasizes software and tools that exploit the knowledge discovery techniques for biological problems, and databases that contain useful biomedical data for the community. The journal also encompasses reviews and tutorials on relevant computational and experimental techniques for translational research and knowledge discovery in life sciences. We seek well-motivated, cross-disciplinary papers useful for researchers, practitioners, and academicians, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists involved in the many facets of bioinformatics and translational research. Proposals for special issues, especially on emerging topics, are also welcome. IJKDB is available in both print and electronic form to subscribers of the journal. The International Editorial Review Board of the journal consists of well-known experts in various areas of bioinformatics, with broad international representation. Please refer the attached Call for Papers and journal web site (http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb ) for more information. We look forward to your submissions. In addition, we will greatly appreciate it if you can distribute the Call for Papers to your colleagues, students and other community members and encourage them to contribute to the journal. Thank you! Sincerely, Xiao-Li Li and See-Kiong Ng Editors-in-Chief International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB) E-mail: xlli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg; skng@i2r.a-star.edu.sg International Advisory Board Philip E. Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University, Italy Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Associated Editors Alfonso Valencia, National Cancer Research Center, Spain Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada Zhang Aidong, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India Eytan Domany, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Peter Clote, Boston College, USA Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Institute for Infocomm Research disclaimer: "This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you." From oscadd from gmail.com Fri Apr 10 11:22:24 2009 From: oscadd from gmail.com (Raghava) Date: Sat Apr 11 12:37:54 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Prediction of guide strand of microRNAs Message-ID: Dear Colleagues We have developed a method for predicting "guide strand of microRNAs from its sequence and secondary structure" it is published in BMC Bioinformatics see http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/105 . Though it is developed to discriminate for guide and passenger strand of miRNA but it can be used to design siRNA. I hope this information will be useful for bioinformatics community. With Regards Raghava #====================================================== # Dr G P S Raghava FASc, FNASc, Scientist and Head Bioinformatics Centre # # Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India # # Phone: +91-172-2690557, Fax: +91-172-2690632 # # Eadd: http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ raghava@imtech.res.in # #=====================================================- From allan.tucker from brunel.ac.uk Mon Apr 27 08:32:55 2009 From: allan.tucker from brunel.ac.uk (allan tucker (brunel)) Date: Mon Apr 27 11:46:12 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] {Disarmed} Systems Biology Symposium 25 - 26 June at Brunel University Message-ID: <99CEB8928E3C436F928246BF4FD0346A@disc.stjohns.brunel.ac.uk> Symposium on Biological and Chemical Informatics for Health: Foundations for Systems Biology Brunel University, West London, UK 25-26 June 2009 Find out more and register for this free event here http://bcih-sb.brunel.ac.uk Integration of biological and chemical informatics presents a real opportunity to address some of the most exciting and challenging issues posed by systems biology. These diverse disciplines, and their interaction, play a crucial role in addressing key issues in drug design and discovery, environmental sustainability, health and disease processes, and disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Join us for a two day symposium sponsored by the BBSRC and Brunel University, where influential leaders in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, systems biology and health, will present the latest developments that are helping to shape this interdisciplinary field. This symposium is open to those working in the field, including academics, researchers, students and industry and will provide an excellent environment for delegates to participate in networking activities and developing collaborative, interdisciplinary research partnerships. We are delighted that the following have already agreed to speak at the event: Bioinformatics Janet Thornton, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute Marco Ramoni, Director of Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, Harvard Medical School Christine Orengo, Professor of Bioinformatics, University College London Health Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and NHS Chemoinformatics Peter Willett, Professor of Information Science, Sheffield University Robert Glen, Director of Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Cambridge University Peter Johnson, Professor of Computational Chemistry, Leeds University Systems Biology Tom Kirkwood, Director of the Newcastle Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition Simon Gaskell, Vice-President for Research, Manchester University Chris Rawlings, Head of Department of Biomathematics and Bioinformatics, Rothamsted Research, BBSRC David Gilbert, Head of School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University Colin Miles, Head of Systems Biology, BBSRC Stephen Muggleton, Director of Modelling, Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College Peter Bramley, Head of School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway London For more details and free registration see: http://bcih-sb.brunel.ac.uk