From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Tue Sep 15 03:49:43 2009 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Tue Sep 15 09:50:55 2009 Subject: [Bionews] New distance courses in bioinformatics and computational biology Message-ID: <4AAF5527.6080205@manchester.ac.uk> At the University of Manchester, UK, we have over 10 years experience in running a range of online courses in computational biology. These courses are designed to enable biologists and computer scientists to update their skills while remaining in the workplace. They are also very suitable for home study, helping you to keep in touch with a research environment while taking a career break. The courses beginning on 5 October 2009 include: Introduction to Bioinformatics Bioinformatics for Systems Biology For those people interested in computational systems biology, these courses could be followed by our new course, 'Mathematics for metabolic modelling'. 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 andrea.splendiani from bbsrc.ac.uk Thu Sep 17 10:28:05 2009 From: andrea.splendiani from bbsrc.ac.uk (Andrea Splendiani) Date: Sun Sep 20 12:17:23 2009 Subject: [Bionews] SWAT4LS Cfp updates: new deadlines and journal supplement Message-ID: <3A8058EF-45A7-4D36-BB8F-379E66FA63C3@bbsrc.ac.uk> SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences *** apologies for multiple postings *** --- updates --- We are glad to announce that there will be a special issue of the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics dedicated to the SWAT4LS workshop. This is a new open access journal published by BMC and we are confident that the supplement will benefit from the additional exposure and promotion associated with its launch (more information on this journal can be found at http://www.jbiomedsem.com/). The call for this special issue will be open to all the contributors to the SWAT4LS workshop (accepted papers, posters and demos). Authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work, elaborated in the light of the discussion held at the workshop. Workshop proceedings will be published on CEUR. In order to facilitate submissions, we have extended submission deadlines as follows: intention to submit (abstract only): October 5th submission of papers: October 12 submission of posters and demos: October 15 communication of acceptance: October 28 camera ready: November 13 Due to the limited time for reviews, we would ask you to submit an abstract of your paper by October 5th, in order to facilitate assignment of reviews. The lenght of contributions to the workshop as been revised to offer more flexibility: * Submissions for Oral communications should be between 8 and 15 pages. * Posters submissions should be between 2 and 4 pages. * Software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. Finally, we would like to announce that the special issue BMC Bioinformatics dedicated to SWAT4LS-2008 will be published on October 1st (BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 10, Supp 10) --- call for papers --- ***Location and date Amsterdam, Science Park, November 20th 2009 (http://swat4ls.org/2009/) ***Rationale The adoption of semantic-enabled applications and collaborative social environments is ever more common in the Life Sciences. The Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to support semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information resources and collaborative social environments. Altogether the adoption of the Semantic Web in the Life Sciences has potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medecine. 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. ***Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web o Semantic Web standards and new proposals (RDF, OWL, SKOS,... ) o Biomedical Ontologies and related tools o Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge bases * Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization systems for life sciences o Semantic biomedical Web Services o Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems * Existing and prospective applications of the Semantic Web for Bioinformatics o Semantics aware application tools o Semantic collaborative research environments o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios ***Scientific Program The workshop will be interactive and include keynotes, oral presentations, panel discussion and a poster and demo session. The keynote speakers of this edition will be: * Barend Mons (http://www.biosemantics.org/index.php?page=barend-mons ) * Michael Schroeder (http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/schroeder) * Alan Ruttenberg (http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/ruttenberg/ ) ***Scientific Committee (committed so far:) * Christopher J. O. Baker, Department of Computer Science and Applied Statistics, University of Brunswick, Canada * Pedro Barahona, Department of Informatics, New University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal * Liliana Barrio-Alvers, Transinsight GmbH, Dresden, Germany * Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America * Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, School of Computer Science, University of Machester, manchester, United Kingdom * Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States of America * Kei Cheung, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America * Tim Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States of America * Marie-Dominique Devignes, LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France * Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, France * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China * Duncan Hull, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK * C. Maria Keet, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy * Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Jacob Tilman Koehler, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Medical Biology, University of Troms?, Troms?, Norway * Michael Krauthammer, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America * Martin Kuiper, Department of Pathology, Systems Biology group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway * Patrick Lambrix, Department of Computer and Information Science, Link?ping University, Link?ping, Sweden * Phillip Lord, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom * M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, United States of America * Stephan Philippi, Institute for Software Technology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany * Marco Roos, Instituut voor Informatica, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, MA, United States of America * Matthias Samwald, DERI, Galway, Ireland, and Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria * Nigam Shah, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford, United States of America * Michael Schr?der, Biotechnology Centre, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany * Robert Stevens, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom * Tetsuro Toyoda, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan * Mark D. Wilkinson, iCAPTURE Center, St. Paul Hospital, Vancouver, Canada and the organizers ***Type of contributions The following possible contributions are sought: * Oral communications (regular papers) * Posters * Software demos ***Proceedings All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with the CEUR-WS.org Workshop Proceedings service (see http://ceur-ws.org/). We are finalizing the agreement to have a dedicated special issue on the 2009 edition of swat4ls in an international scientific journal of the BMC group (open access, pubmed indexed). 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. ***New Deadlines * Intention to submit (abstract only): October 5th * Submission of papers: October 12 * Submission of posters and demos: October 15 * Communication of acceptance: October 28 * Camera ready: November 13 ***Instructions All papers and posters must be in English and must be submitted through the EasyChair review system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls-09 . Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer- reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee. * Submissions for Oral communications should be between 8 and 15 pages. * Posters submissions should be between 2 and 4 pages. * Software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4 pages. ***Organization * M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Albert Burger, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, and Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom * Adrian Paschke, Corporate Semantic Web, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy * Andrea Splendiani, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics dept., Rothamsted Research, UK ***More information * http://www.swat4ls.org/2009/ * http://swat4ls.blogspot.com * info@swat4ls.org --- Andrea Splendiani Senior Bioinformatics Scientist Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK andrea.splendiani@bbsrc.ac.uk +44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004 From gilbertd from indiana.edu Mon Sep 21 11:48:49 2009 From: gilbertd from indiana.edu (gilbertd@indiana.edu) Date: Mon Sep 21 11:52:36 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Bionet Arthropods news/discussion list request for comments Message-ID: <200909211648.n8LGmni14601@net.bio.net> There is interest among biologists who study various Arthropods for a shared public news and discussion group. Please comment if you would like to see a new Arthropod mailing list. Values of sharing biology discussion and news among those who study insects and crustaceans has been noted at recent venues, including the Arthropod Genomics Symposia (http://www.k-state.edu/agc/), Entomological Society meetings (e.g. http://www.entsoc.org/), and recent arthropod genome projects. BIOSCI/Bionet (www.bio.net) continues to serve such bioscience community news needs, as it has since its inception 20 years ago by Michael Ashburner and others. Community group lists at Bionet include DROSOPHILA, ARABIDOPSIS, MAIZE, Medicago, CELEGANS, CHLAMYDOMONAS, Mycology, YEAST, and ZBRAFISH. Bionet currently is maintained at Indiana University by Don Gilbert, a genome informatician specializing in arthropods. There are related mailing lists (see below). The uses and content of this proposed list would presumably be similar. Please comment whether you believe existing lists cover this need or prefer a new one. Comment also on proposed charter and areas. Perhaps this group should focus on one area such as genomics of arthropods. Send your comments to bioforum@net.bio.net for public discussion or biosci-help@net.bio.net (private to Don Gilbert). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for ARTHROPOD/bionet.arthropod (moderated) One line Description: Arthropod Biology Status: Moderated Moderators: to be named Proposed mailing list name: arthropod @ net.bio.net bionet-arthropod @ net.bio.net (alias) Proposed USENET name: bionet.arthropod Charter: The purpose of the ARTHROPOD newsgroup is to provide a public forum for scientific discussion, communication and collaboration of shared biology interests among scientists studying species of Arthropoda, including insects and crustaceans. Topics may include evolutionary biology, ecology and enviroment, genomics, molecular and organismal biology, methods and biotechnology, informatics and databases, and any other aspect touching on shared biology of arthropods. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Related public mailing lists: Arthropod Genomics Announcements http://listserv.ksu.edu/archives/arthropodnews.html Bionet Drosophila http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/dros Vectorbase (mosquitoes, other human vectors) http://www.vectorbase.org/Help/Mailing_lists Aphid genomics http://www.eco.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/aphidgenomics Canadian Arthropods electronic mailing list http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/english/mailinglist.html List of various insect and arthropod mailing lists http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/directory/94/vid/4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Discussion: -- please suggest areas of special interest In addition this newsgroup will provide: A forum for the exchange of information about future meetings of interest to those studying insects, crustaceans and other arthropods. A venue for help and sharing of methods and techniques in areas such as Biological resources; Evolutionary and phylogenetic techniques; Genome analysis techniques; etc. Proposed discussion leaders/moderators: -- to be named The suggested list name is ARTHROPOD or bionet.arthropod Alternate spellings, ARTHROPODA or ARTHROPODS, can be considered or other names. Sincerely, Don Gilbert BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help at net.bio.net From iefremov from unipro.ru Tue Sep 22 06:08:13 2009 From: iefremov from unipro.ru (Ivan Efremov) Date: Tue Sep 22 10:45:30 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Unipro UGENE v1.5.2 released Message-ID: <200909221108.n8MB8kk21620@net.bio.net> Our team is glad to announce UGENE 1.5.2 - a feature-oriented minor release, which brings several unique possibilities to its users. A new version adds 2 new plugins and brings numerous improvements and bug fixes. New plugins: MUSCLE 4 - a port of the newest tool for multiple sequence alignment by Robert C. Edgar; CUDA Support - an utility plugin which makes possible using NVIDIA graphical processing units for accelerating computational algorithms (only for Windows). New features and bug fixes: CUDA-accelerated Smith-Waterman algorithm is ready to use for Windows users; The one of the most awaited features: sequence editing has been added; Exporting annotation tables to CSV has been provided; HMM2 models support has been added to HMM3; The complete list of changes can be found here: http://ugene.unipro.ru/changelist.html Project web site: http://ugene.unipro.ru/ From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Wed Sep 23 08:05:23 2009 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Wed Sep 23 10:00:36 2009 Subject: [Bionews] InnovationWell 2009 Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09: Program available Message-ID: The InnovationWell 2009 community of practice meeting program with abstracts is now complete and available at http://innovationwell.com/comty_conferencesprog09 The InnovationWell program will cover discussion of topics on Collaboration in Discovery and Development, Translational Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Biomarkers, Blood-Brain Barrier Modeling and Predictive Toxicology. More detailed program below. This annual community of practice meeting is taking place for the fifth time and brings together a unique combination of pharmaceutical and healthcare industry experts, principal investigators and researchers from the academic and government sectors, and leaders from innovative enterprises. The smaller and more intimate meeting format pursued has fostered the type of collaboration not always found at large conferences. Registration fees include food (lunch, dinner, breaks and evening refreshments) for the days attended. Furthermore, arrangements have been made for some affordable accommodations (preferred rates), making the meeting economical to attend. We now have a great deal of information on preferred rates and travel directions available at http://innovationwell.com/comty_conferencelocation Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare R&D InnovationWell 2009 InterAction Meeting October 13-16, 2009 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA Format: Seminars, Roundtables, Presentations, Panel Q&As, Discussions, Break-out Workshops, Web-supported. Evening Poster sessions, networking, social activities. This meeting will take place concurrently with the eCheminfo 2009 drug discovery community of practice meeting: http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferencesprog09 Call for Abstracts: If you wish to submit a poster abstract for the meeting which will be placed on the program, please send to Barry Hardy (barry.hardy –(at)- douglasconnect.com) for review. Attractive poster prizes will be awarded for best posters at the meeting (subject to peer review). A special peer-reviewed issue of Future Medicinal Chemistry with a focus on collaboration in discovery and development is being published from the meeting. Accepted poster and presentation abstracts are eligible for consideration. Please contact Barry Hardy if interested in submitting a paper for review. Pre-Conference Workshop, October 12 Forum on Collaboration in Discovery and Development To register for the meeting right now, please visit: http://InnovationWell-BM09.eventsbot.com To download a pdf of the program including the registration form: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/files/innovationwell-bm09-90812.pdf InnovationWell 2009 Program Summary MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 Forum on Collaboration in Discovery and Development, Co-chaired by Peter Gates (Johnson & Johnson PR&D) and Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect). Speakers include Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Shree Nath (Pointcross), Simson Alex (Johnson & Johnson), Chris Waller (Pfizer), Michael Liebman (Strategic Medicine), Jeff Spitzner (Rescentris), and Bob O’Hara (ResultWorks). TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 Translational Bioinformatics: Bridging Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics in Translational Medicine, Chaired by Jake Chen (Indiana University). Speakers include Jessica Tenenbaum (Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Duke University), Steve Naylor (Predictive Physiology and Medicine, Inc.), Javed Mostafa (University of North Carolina), Jay Zhang (Myriad Genetics), Maricel Kann (University of Maryland), Iya Khalil (Gene Network Sciences), Hai Hu (Windber Research Institute), Jake Chen (Indiana University – Purdue University), and Susan Stephens (Johnson & Johnson). WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 Systems Biology and Biomarkers, Chaired by Darius Dziuda (Central Connecticut State University). Speakers include Anamika Sarkar (Novartis), Darius Dziuda (Central Connecticut State University), Frank Tobin (Tobin Consulting LLC), Andreas Matern (Thomson Reuters Healthcare and Science), and Usha Reddy (Merck). Modeling of the Blood–Brain Barrier in Drug Discovery and Development, Chaired by Roméo Cecchelli (Université d'Artois, France). Speakers include Stefan Lundquist (AstraZeneca), Reinhard Gabathuler (AngioChem), Maxime Culot (University of Lille), Damir Janigro (Cleveland Clinic), Marie-Pierre Dehouck (University of Lille), Pierre- Olivier Couraud (Institut Cochin), and Anna Seelig (University of Basel). THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 Predictive Toxicology: Combining in vitro and in silico Techniques in Predictive Toxicology Applications, Co-chaired by Richard Judson (US EPA) and Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences). Speakers include Richard Judson (US EPA), Ellen Berg (BioSeek), Jonathan Dordick (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Sanji Bhal (ACD/ Labs), Christodoulos Floudas (Princeton University), Robert Fraczkiewicz (Simulations Plus), Kyoung Tai No (Yonsei University), and Stephen Bryant (NIH). FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 Predictive Toxicology: Combining in vitro and in silico Techniques in Predictive Toxicology Applications, Co-chaired by Richard Judson (US EPA) and Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences). Speakers include Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences), Fangping Mu (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Katya Tsaioun (Apredica), Grace Patlewicz (DuPont), Michael Pelekis (Simulations Plus), and Anil Aswani (University of California at Berkeley). Contact: Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, InnovationWell Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. email: innovationwell -[at]- douglasconnect.com Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/ Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg 14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. innovationwell - [at]- douglasconnect.com Meeting Support: Rob Reedijk, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. email: rob.reedijk -[at]- douglasconnect.com From sticher from bioc.uzh.ch Fri Sep 25 07:50:23 2009 From: sticher from bioc.uzh.ch (Patrick Sticher) Date: Fri Sep 25 10:02:58 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Practical Course in Biomolecular Modelling Message-ID: <4ABCBC8F.2080000@bioc.uzh.ch> Dear colleagues, please be informed that online applications are still accepted for the following course until October 16, 2009: 8TH NCCR PRACTICAL COURSE IN BIOMOLECULAR MODELLING January 10 - 15, 2010 Kandersteg, Switzerland http://www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/course2010.asp Course topics include Simulation techniques, force-field development, conformational search, computation of free energy and entropy, treatment of electrostatic forces, simulation of folding, comparison of simulation with experiment This course is primarily directed to PhD students and postdocs from experimental structural biology groups wishing to learn more on biomolecular modelling. The course format will include morning lectures and late-afternoon/early evening tutorials, and provide ample opportunities for discussions with experts and fellow participants. Participants will be invited to bring own problems for tutorials and/or discussion. The course will be organized as a winter retreat in the Swiss Alps offering a stimulating learning atmosphere with the afternoons available for informal participation in discussions, reading and self-study or recreational activities in the area. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply online on http://www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/course2010_application.asp. Application deadline will be October 16, 2010. We will be able to accept 20 participants to this course. Best regards, Patrick Sticher -- _________________________________ Visit the NCCR on the Internet www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch Dr. Patrick Sticher Moser NCCR Scientific Officer Institute of Biochemistry University of Z?rich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Z?rich Phone +41 / (0)44 / 635 54 84 Fax +41 / (0)44 / 635 59 08 Mail sticher@bioc.uzh.ch From conf from topaz.gatech.edu Fri Sep 25 18:17:22 2009 From: conf from topaz.gatech.edu (Georgia Tech Conference Announcement) Date: Fri Sep 25 19:21:01 2009 Subject: [Bionews] 7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics Message-ID: <20090925231722.B68597D486B@topaz.gatech.edu> The 7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics - In silico Biology: Genome Biology and Bioinformatics will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 12-14, 2009 http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/ Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading researchers in genomics, bioinformatics and genome biology to present recent advances in the field and to discuss open problems. Important Dates Deadline for early registration: October 15, 2009 Deadline for poster abstract subsmission: October 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 11, 2009 We invite papers submissions in the following areas * genomics * transcriptomics * proteomics * reconstruction and modeling of gene networks * evolutionary biology SPEAKERS Margaret O. Dayhoff lecture: David Lipman , NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Plenary Speakers: Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego, USA Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Nick Grishin, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA King Jordan, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA Igor Jouline (Zhulin), University of Tennessee - ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA Boris Lenhard, University of Bergen, Norway Jian Ma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion, Israel Insitute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Joanna Masel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Andrey Mironov, Moscow State University, Russia Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA USA Karen Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA Natasa Przulj, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA John Reinitz, State Uiversity of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Gent, Belgium CONFERENCE CHAIRS Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nicholas Bergman, Georgia Tech Dmitrij Frishman, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Andrzej M. Kierzek, University of Surrey, UK. Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia Jun Liu, Harvard University Hannah Margalit, Hebrew University Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago Andre Rogatko, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Gary Stormo, Washington University Lance Waller, Emory University Ying Xu, University of Georgia and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Soojin Yi, Georgia Tech Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee ADMINISTRATION Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech CONFERENCE LOCATION The Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts. The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown Atlanta near the center of the 1996 Olympic development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret Mitchell house. From robinhaw from gmail.com Fri Sep 25 10:07:11 2009 From: robinhaw from gmail.com (rhaw) Date: Sat Sep 26 13:12:03 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Reactome Pathway Database User Survey Message-ID: Reactome is committed to providing access to high-quality pathway information and helpful data analysis tools. With this in mind, we are actively soliciting comments from the research community in order to assess community needs. We are interested to hear about your experience with Reactome, and would like to know a bit about your background and research interests so that we can continue to improve the Reactome site and tools. You can access the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/l48zzq Thank you for taking part. Robin Haw Manager of Reactome Outreach Outreach [at] reactome.org http://www.reactome.org From pag from intl-pag.org Mon Sep 28 03:16:50 2009 From: pag from intl-pag.org (PAG-XVIII Conference) Date: Mon Sep 28 07:41:26 2009 Subject: [Bionews] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Plant & Animal Genome XVIII Conference Message-ID: <200909280816.n8S8Golp008837@www.intl-pag.org> Dear Colleague: You are invited to attend the Plant & Animal Genome XVIII Conference (PAG-XVIII), January 9-13, 2010 taking place at the Town & Country Convention Center in San Diego, California. To view the pre-registration brochure please download the PDF file: http://www.scherago.com/pag/RegBrochure.pdf The meeting will again offer the satellite sessions and workshops which took place at Plant & Animal Genome XVII. The meeting draft for PAG-XVIII and abstracts from PG-I through PAG-XVII are available on the PAG website listed below. The exhibits and posters will now take place in the Grand Exhibit Hall, adjacent to the California room. We are no longer using the lower level parking facility. We are requesting that all abstracts be submitted electronically. The abstract deadline is MONDAY, November 2, 2009; extended to allow for the new registration process. The abstract submission website is now open. All attendees looking to submit an abstract will be required to pay the registration fee PRIOR to submitting their abstract. You will be assigned an attendee ID# which will be issued once you complete the on-line registration process. You can look up your ID# on the PAG website at: http://intl-pag.org You will be required to provide your attendee ID# to complete the on-line abstract submission process. Due to severe delays in getting VISAs to enter the United States, we recommend that you plan ahead and do NOT wait for your abstract acceptance to begin the process. DO NOT WAIT. All researchers presenting posters must pre-register for the meeting to have their abstract printed in the final meeting program. Tha abstract deadline is MONDAY, November 2, 2009. Registration is available via the Internet using our secure on-line registration form listed below. https://www.pagregistration.com/pag18reg.shtml Full Conference (Univ/Non-Profit/Govt) Registration for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 2, 2009): $550 Late Registration (after November 2, 2009): $650 On-site Registration: $750 Full Conference (Industry) Registration for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 2, 2009): $775 Late Registration (after November 2, 2009): $875 On-site Registration: $975 Weekend Only (Univ/Non-Profit/Govt) Registration (Fri/Sat/Sun) for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 2, 2009): $400 Late Registration (after November 2, 2009): $450 On-site Registration: $500 Weekend Only (Industry) Registration (Fri/Sat/Sun) for ALL attendees: Pre-Registration (deadline November 2, 2009): $500 Late Registration (after November 2, 2009): $550 On-site Registration: $600 Student Registration (proof required): Pre-Registration (deadline November 1, 2009): $375 Late Registration (after November 1, 2009): $425 On-site Registration: $475 All questions regarding Plant & Animal Genome XVIII should be directed to Scherago Int'l at Tel: 201-653-4777 ext. 20, Fax: 201-653-5705 or 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 XVIII Conference ---------------- January 9-13, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------