From alison from ebi.ac.uk Thu Oct 22 11:22:35 2009 From: alison from ebi.ac.uk (Alison Barker) Date: Thu Oct 22 13:50:17 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Register NOW for Small Molecule Bioactivity Resources: an EMBL-EBI hands on course Message-ID: <4AE086CB.4060907@ebi.ac.uk> Dear Colleague Register NOW for Small Molecule Bioactivity Resources: an EMBL-EBI hands on course Organisers: John Overington, Anne Hersey, Vicky Schneider Date - 25-29 January 2010 Venue - EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Registration deadline - 11 December 2009 Bursary Application deadline - 6 November 2009 Register at [1]http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_100125_smallmolecul es.html#about This highly interdisciplinary course in next-generation publicly available chemoinformatics tools is ideal for academics or industrial researchers interested in drug discovery or for researchers looking to progress from basic functional genomics to translational research. Participants should have a degree in a biomedical discipline. No previous training in bioinformatics is required. The course will be highly interactive and will include problem solving sessions each day. Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring ideas for particular pieces of work to the addressed during these sessions. What will you learn? * Hands on training on searching public databases such as ChEMBL and PubChem, for small molecules of biological interest. * Using related bioinformatics databases and services (including Ensembl, Uniprot, ArrayExpress and Zinc), that cross-reference small molecule data. * How to find out about the structure-activity relationships of small bioactive molecules using ChEMBL. * Selecting compounds to screen against novel targets and reference standards. * Optimising compound structures for target validation. What will it cover? * Overview of public domain chemical structure resources. * The role of open science in drug discovery. * Analysis and modulation of disease linked pathways. * Tools and strategies to get the best from chemical and small molecule databases. * Target analysis and prioritisation of genomic data for drug discovery. Cost The course tuition fees are subsidised by the Wellcome Trust for scientists based in non-commercial institutions or Small-to-Medium enterprises. The registration fee is ?325.00 (?675.00 for other commercial registrations). Bursaries There are a limited number of bursaries available for academic participants only. These are awarded by the selection committee according to merit. The bursary will cover the entire course fees (including accomodation and subsistence) and a percentage of travel costs (up to a reasonable maximum set by the selection committee) - please indicate in your application a rough estimate of likely travel costs. 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Kind regards -- Alison Barker Outreach and Training Team Secretary EBI EMBL Outstation European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD Tel: +44-(0)1223 49- 4604 Fax: +44-(0)1223 49- 4621 email: [2]alison@ebi.ac.uk [3]http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ Upcoming hands on training courses ([4]http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/): 25-29 January 2010: Small Molecule Bioactive Resources At The EBI 22-26 February 2010: Programmatic Access To Biological Databases (Perl) References 1. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_100125_smallmolecules.html#about 2. mailto:alison@ebi.ac.uk 3. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ 4. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/ From gfogel from natural-selection.com Fri Oct 30 11:44:33 2009 From: gfogel from natural-selection.com (cibcb1) Date: Fri Oct 30 15:09:19 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] CIBCB 2010 Call For Papers Message-ID: <26133350.post@talk.nabble.com> Call for Papers: IEEE CIBCB 2010 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2-5 May 2010, Montreal, Canada IMPORTANT DATES: Special Session Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009 Tutorial Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009 Paper submission deadline: 15 Dec. 2009 Author notification: 15 Feb. 2010 Camera-ready paper deadline: 15 Mar. 2010 Conference: 2-5 May 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: This symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics, bioengineering and related fields. Computational Intelligence (CI) approaches includes artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid approaches and other emerging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - high-throughput data analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, etc.) - molecular docking and drug design - RNA and protein folding and structure prediction - metabolic pathway analysis - analysis of large biological data sets - single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis - immuno- and chemo-informatics - molecular evolution and phylogenetics - bio and medical ontologies - microRNA gene expression analysis - molecular sequence alignment and analysis - systems and synthetic biology - emergent properties in complex biological system - computational proteomics - motif and signal detection - medical image analysis and pattern recognition - in-silico optimization of biological systems The use of computational intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be indexed in IEEE eXplore. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight (8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. Submission details can be found on the symposium web site at: www.cibcb.org/CIBCB2010. Authors are expected to present their paper at the symposium. CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS and TUTORIALS: Consult the CIBCB'10 symposium web site for instructions on proposing a special session or tutorial. Papers for special sessions must have significant computational intelligence content. LOCATION: The symposium will take place at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal located in beautiful downtown Montreal close to the University of Montreal and McGill University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair L. Gwenn Volkert Program Chair: Dan Ashlock Technical Co-Chairs: Francesco Masulli Mihail Popescu Clare Bates Congdon Publicity Chair: Sorin Draghici Proceedings Chair: Chengpeng (Charlie) Bi Finance Chair: Gary Fogel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Direct your questions or requests for additional information to: L. Gwenn Volkert ? volkert@cs.kent.edu - CIBCB 2010 General Chair or Daniel Ashlock - dashlock@uoguelph.ca - CIBCB 2010 Program Chair or visit: http://www.cibcb.org/CIBCB10 http://www.cibcb.org/files/cibcb2010cfp.pdf -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/CIBCB-2010-Call-For-Papers-tp26133350p26133350.html Sent from the Bio.net - Biomatrx mailing list archive at Nabble.com.