From jbdundas from gmail.com Sat Aug 1 03:06:06 2009 From: jbdundas from gmail.com (jitesh dundas) Date: Sat Aug 1 11:18:30 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Request for reviewers for my paper Message-ID: <326ea8620908010106m2cc3b6b6oee42d2b65b094562@mail.gmail.com> Dear Sir/Madam, I have written this research paper on 3-dimensional analysis of human body. It proposes a framework for doig the same. I am in process of submitting the me to an international journal for publication. Thus, I need reviewers to view my work. I would be grateful if any experts on this list would be kind enough to do so. The paper is in the field of nanomedicine/bio-modeling /cell biology. Please send me an email if interested and I shall be happy to share and discuss my work. Please let me know if you need anything else from my side. Regard, Jitesh Dundas http://jiteshbdundas.blogspot.com -- Thanks & Regards, Jitesh Dundas Research Associate, DIL Lab, IIT-Bombay(www.dil.iitb.ac.in), Scientist, Edencore Technologies(www.edencore.net) Phone:- +91-9860925706 http://jiteshbdundas.blogspot.com "No idea is stupid,either its too good to be true, or its way ahead of its future"- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. From db60 from st-andrews.ac.uk Tue Aug 4 11:18:38 2009 From: db60 from st-andrews.ac.uk (Daniel Barker) Date: Tue Aug 4 11:43:45 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Conference, Comparative Genomics, University of St Andrews Message-ID: Dear bionet.biology.computational, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Comparative Genomics One-day International Conference Date: 18th August 2009, 9:30 am Location: Bute Building, University of St Andrews, UK * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is a one day event - A day of exciting talks on comparative genomics from an array of international speakers. Thousands of genome sequences are now available, and the amount of data on genomes continues to increase. This presents enormous opportunities to make discoveries of biological and medical interest, but also requires new approaches. Confirmed speakers: o Prof MARK BLAXTER, University of Edinburgh. "Comparative Nematode Genomics". o Prof GEOFF BARTON, University of Dundee. "A tale of three small RNAs". o Prof DANNIE DURAND, Carnegie Mellon University. "The Evolution of Multidomain Families". o Prof NEIL HALL, University of Liverpool. "Fast forward Genetics using second generation sequencing". o Dr MATTHEW HEGARTY, Aberystwyth University. "Genomic mergers: the consequences of hybridisation and polyploidy in Senecio". o Prof IAN KORF, University of California Davis Genome Center. "Intron mediated enhancement". o Prof ALAN ARCHIBALD FRSE, Roslin Institute. "Comparative farm animal genomics - from synteny to synergy". o Dr ZEMIN NING, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Cancer genome assemblies and variation detection between normal and tumor human cells". o Prof ZIHENG YANG FRS, University College London. "Population genomics and human-chimpanzee speciation". o Prof ANDY WATERS, University of Glasgow, "Translation of Translation: Comparative genomics yields practical insights into sexual development in malaria parasites". More information can be found at http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=70 Registration details: Early registration is encouraged. Registration fees are GBP 40; students can register for a reduced fee of GBP 20. ** Please register on-line at: http://www.sbforum.org/eregister.php?e_id=70 The event is preceded by a conference dinner, at a subsidized price for conference delegates. Please book in advance. http://www.sbforum.org/events.php?e_id=76 The conference itself is followed by a networking buffet dinner, included in the registration fee. Poster submission: Delegates are welcome to submit an abstract on any aspect of comparative genomics. The poster abstract deadline has been extended to Thursday 13th August. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 18th August. Best regards, Daniel -- Daniel Barker http://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/db60.htm The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 From paolo.romano from istge.it Thu Aug 6 02:32:54 2009 From: paolo.romano from istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Thu Aug 6 07:58:39 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] CFP: SWAT4LS 2009 Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Message-ID: <200908060733.n767X79h010408@clus2.istge.it> Apologies for possible multiple posts ----------------------------------------------------- First CFP: SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences 2009 ***Location and date Amsterdam, Science Park, November 20th 2009 (http://www.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 environemnts. 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 Committee (committed so far) * Christopher J. O. Baker, Department of Computer Science and Applied Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, 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, United States of America * Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom * Werner Ceusters, NY CoE in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States of America * Kei Cheung, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America * Tim Clark, Center for Innovative Computing, Harvard University, United States of America * Marie-Dominique Devignes, LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France * Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France * Michel Dumontier, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China * Duncan Hull, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom * 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, 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, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, Cambridge, 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 All accepted oral communications and posters will be published with CEUR-WS. ***Deadlines * Submission openinig: 1 September 2009 * Submission of oral communications: 28 September 2009 * Submission for posters and demos: 15 October 2009 * Communication of acceptance: 23 October 2009 * Camera ready: 6 November 2009 ***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 (see 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 10 and 15 pages. * Posters submissions should be between 4 and 8 pages. * Software demo proposals should also be between 4 and 8 pages. ***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 in the process of negotiating the possibility to have a special issue of a major bioinformatics journal related to the 2009 edition of swat4ls. 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. ***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 ----------- For any further information or clarification, please visit the website at http://www.swat4ls.org/2009 or contact the organization by email at info @ swat4ls.org Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it) Bioinformatics National Cancer Research Institute (IST) From andy from molsoft.com Thu Aug 13 12:06:04 2009 From: andy from molsoft.com (Andrew Orry) Date: Thu Aug 13 13:06:54 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Protein Structure and Drug Discovery Workshop - October 1st - 2nd 2009 Message-ID: <4A8447FC.1040205@molsoft.com> **MolSoft ICM Workshop: "Protein Structure and Drug Discovery" October 1st to 2nd 2009 La Jolla, CA.** Please see the following invitation to attend MolSoft's ( www.molsoft.com ) "Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop" on October 1st to 2nd 2009 in La Jolla, California USA. Please 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 (University of California San Diego) and Dr. Maxim Totrov (MolSoft). Price: $360 (before September 1st) $400 (after September 1st) The workshops will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and "hands-on" computational experiments and will cover the following topics: - Molecular Graphics and Displaying Interactive Molecules in PowerPoint and the Web see: http://www.molsoft.com/activeicm.html . - 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 see http://www.molsoft.com/gui/ligand-editor.html - 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 molecular 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 (University of California San Diego 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 News: http://www.molsoft.com/news.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. From hiraghuraman from gmail.com Sun Aug 16 13:37:10 2009 From: hiraghuraman from gmail.com (Raghu) Date: Sun Aug 16 15:12:08 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] miRNA target Message-ID: Dear all. I have a list of miRNAs in Oryza sativa and I am looking for their target mRNAs. I am not able to get any software that will search the targets in O.sativa. Please help me if anyone knows it. Thank you... Raghu Ram B From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Sun Aug 16 15:51:46 2009 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Sun Aug 16 21:08:04 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] InnovationWell 2009 Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09: Program available Message-ID: <4615664b-3fc1-4141-aa88-58fcf934831b@g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> 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. Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare R&D InnovationWell 2009 InterAction Meeting October 13-16, 2009 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA Conference program available: http://innovationwell.com/comty_conferencesprog09 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 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), Alex Simson (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 From skhadar from gmail.com Sun Aug 16 21:20:02 2009 From: skhadar from gmail.com (Shameer Khadar) Date: Mon Aug 17 07:34:42 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] miRNA target In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shameer Khadar Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [Computational-biology] miRNA target To: Raghu Hello Raghu, I have used this resource dedicated to drosophila to get off-target information for fly genes in a large scale rnai screening. You may try http://flyrnai.org/RNAi_find_frag_free.html. You may try this resource http://dscheck.rnai.jp/ for Oryza genes/ You may find this paper useful : http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/33/suppl_2/W589 Trust this helps. Khader shameer NCBS - TIFR On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Raghu wrote: > Dear all. I have a list of miRNAs in Oryza sativa and I am looking for > their target mRNAs. I am not able to get any software that will search > the targets in O.sativa. Please help me if anyone knows it. Thank > you... Raghu Ram B > > _______________________________________________ > Comp-bio mailing list > Comp-bio@net.bio.net > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/comp-bio > From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Mon Aug 17 02:53:12 2009 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Mon Aug 17 07:34:48 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, October 2009 Message-ID: <4A890C68.3030300@manchester.ac.uk> The distance course, Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, from The University of Manchester, will begin again on 5 October 2009. Designed to provide professional development for those in full-time employment, the course runs over 16 teaching weeks. Teaching and learning are focussed around tutor-supported individual and group exercises. In this course, participants discuss a tutorial problem for each section of the course, and then submit solutions for feedback from the course tutor. Week 1 Introduction to the course Installation of software for network analysis Weeks 2 and 3 Molecular networks in biology Group discussion of models and modelling Weeks 4 and 5 Standards for Systems Biology Data sources and standards for network biology Practical exploration of a molecular network Weeks 6 and 7 Network properties Practical exercise on network statistics Weeks 8 and 9 Mapping microarray data to a network Weeks 10 and 11 Independent work on network analysis Weeks 12 and 13 Dynamic models Further work on modelling formalisms Practical exercise on a metabolic model Weeks 14 to 16 Independent research for the second assessment You will find further information here : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/BIOL61820.html and the course application form is here : https://elearn.cs.man.ac.uk/sts-tng/enrol.cgi If you have any questions, or need advice on the other course options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk From conf from topaz.gatech.edu Wed Aug 26 13:42:14 2009 From: conf from topaz.gatech.edu (Georgia Tech Conference Announcement) Date: Wed Aug 26 13:46:21 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] 7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics Message-ID: <20090826184214.DA87634F02C@topaz.gatech.edu> -------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Dear Colleagues 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, Munich Polytechnic University, Germany Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Andrzej M. Kierzek, University of Surrey, UK. Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia Jun Liu, Harvard University Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago Andre Rogatko, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Gary Stormo, Washington 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.