From mourad12345678 from yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 12:09:16 2009 From: mourad12345678 from yahoo.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Sun Mar 1 15:25:30 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] BIOKDD'09 : Extended Deadline Message-ID: <325419.78281.qm@web31505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis (Tunisia) And Faculty of Applied Sciences, Bucharest (Romania) Organize Biological Knowledge Discovery from Databases (BIOKDD'09) Workshop held in parallel with 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'09) www.dexa.org University of Linz, Austria August 31 - September 4, 2009 With the development of Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth of both the volume and the complexity of biological databases. For example, the Human Genome Project provided the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome. And, consequently, we are provided too with the sequences of about 100,000 proteins. Therefore, we are entering the post-genomic era : After having focused so much efforts on the accumulation of biological data in databases, we have now to focus as much efforts, and even more, on the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of biological data stored in databases is a challenging task because, not only, of its complexity and its multiple numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological structural and evolutionary mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) is a response to these new trends. You are invited to submit a draft paper in PDF format before March 15, 2009 via DEXA'09 ConfDriver. Papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE format www.ieee.org/ web/publications /authors/ transjnl/ index.html All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA?09 Workshops with IEEE CSP. One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA?09 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD?09 workshop. Program Committee: Mourad Elloumi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, (PC Chair) Cristian Toma, Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania (PC Co-Chair) Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France Beatrice Duval, University of Angers, France Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui. Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tanger, Morocco El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Sciences and Techniques of Lille, France Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, UK Kathleen Steinhofel, King's College London, UK Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Important Dates: Submission of Full Papers: March 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2009 Camera-ready Copies: May 31, 2009 From tekaia from pasteur.fr Tue Mar 3 10:42:24 2009 From: tekaia from pasteur.fr (Fredj Tekaia) Date: Tue Mar 3 17:19:08 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis EMBO course in Hong Kong Message-ID: <766C8C91-CAB7-46CA-8CF0-5A1D23D645AE@pasteur.fr> Call for application to the : Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis course August 17 - August 29, 2009 HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong Course web page: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/BCGA2009.html Course program: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/BCGA2009/ BCGA2009_Prog.html Aim of the course: The main objectives of the course are to familiarize young scientists (Biologists/Computer Scientists/Mathematicians) with bioinformatics and genome data analysis skills and to encourage multi-disciplinarity by introducing: 1- advanced fundamental algorithms in bioinformatics, 2- their application in genome analyses, 3- and recent knowledge acquired from genomes studies and perspectives. The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D, Post-doctoral students and junior scientists in Public Institutions particularly from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America, with background in Mathematics, Statistics, Biology or Computing, who are involved in Bioinformatics and Genomes studies. Duration: Full time from August 17 to August 29, 2009. Location: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Accommodation and social: Acceptance to the course includes free accommodation (double room based) breakfast, lunch and dinner. Application Deadline: April 15, 2009. More information about the course, how to apply and application form can be found at the following web page: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/ BCGA2009.html Organizers/Contact: Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong. Si Lok, Genome Research Center The University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong. Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore - Singapore. Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan. Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris - France. With financial support from: EMBO - Institut Pasteur Paris. From ipowerbioinfo from gmail.com Thu Mar 5 06:23:08 2009 From: ipowerbioinfo from gmail.com (ipower) Date: Thu Mar 5 12:20:03 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Bioinformatics Summer Projects / Training at Chennai Message-ID: Greetings from iPower Solutions India Ltd, Chennai iPower Solutions India Ltd is a premier training institute in Chennai offering a Research and Industry oriented training in Bioinformatics. We are specialize in Course Training, Certificate Course, PGDBI, Project Guidance, Summer Training in diverse application areas. Features: -Well Equipped Computing Lab with High Configuration Computers - High Speed Broadband Internet Connection - Research & Industry oriented Projects -Easy access by Train (2 Min’s Walk able distance) from St.Thomas Mount Station - Week-end Batches for Working Professionals and Regular Full-time Students - Affordable Fees - Flexible Timings Register earliest to avoid your disappointment and get excellent training for your future. Bioinformatics Course Training: Duration: 2 Weeks Introduction to Bioinformatics Bioinformatics tools and databases Proteomic tools and Databases Genomic tools and databases Introduction to genomics Introduction to Proteomics Introduction to Drug designing &Software’s Pre-Final Year /Summer Projects Domains: Duration: 1 Month Comparative Genomics DNA Sequence analysis Drug Designing Docking Gene prediction Herbal Informatics Microbial Genomics Protein Sequence analysis Phylogenetic analysis. System biology Further information contact to us: iPower Solutions India Ltd , Bioinformatics Coordinator, Adambakkam, Chennai-600 088 Phone: +91-44-22449060/70 Website: www.ipbioinformatics.com E-mail: project@ipwrs.com From devipsrs from gmail.com Sat Mar 7 18:35:53 2009 From: devipsrs from gmail.com (devipsrs@gmail.com) Date: Sat Mar 7 18:38:54 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): BCBGC-09 Message-ID: <90e6daf0-da68-46c5-b82f-5793b220a114@x38g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): BCBGC-09 *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please forward to interested people.* The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. The conference will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) • International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) • International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) • International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) • International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. Sincerely Devip Sr Publicity committee From andy from molsoft.com Tue Mar 10 19:02:32 2009 From: andy from molsoft.com (Andrew Orry) Date: Tue Mar 10 20:07:08 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Meeting: Challenges in Protein Structure Prediction and Drug Design April 9th-10th 2009 Message-ID: <49B6FF98.7050304@molsoft.com> We still have some spaces available at MolSoft's (http://www.molsoft.com) ICM User Group meeting "Challenges in Protein Structure Prediction and Drug Design", to be held in La Jolla CA, on April 9th-10th 2009. A wide range of subjects in the fields of computational biology and chemistry will be addressed by an international group of researchers from academia and industry. Please see http://www.molsoft.com/meet09.html for more information including the full schedule and registration form. The meeting sessions are divided into the following topics: * Protein Structure Modeling and Analysis * Membrane Protein Modeling and Drug Design * Structure Data Visualization * Chemical Biology and Cheminformatics * Protein-Protein Docking * Structure-Based Drug Design Keynote Speakers Include: Ruben Abagyan Ph.D. (Scripps) Donovan Chin Ph.D. (Novartis) Brian Marsden Ph.D. (SGC Oxford) Eric Martin Ph.D. (Novartis) Michael Sundström Ph.D. (Novo Nordisk Foundation for Protein Research) Maxim Totrov Ph.D. (MolSoft) You do not have to be an ICM user to attend this meeting, anyone with an interest in computational biology and chemistry will find the talks interesting and rewarding. The price for the two day meeting is $99 (academics) $300 (commercial). For more information see http://www.molsoft.com/meet09.html -- 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 masulli from disi.unige.it Tue Mar 17 07:13:24 2009 From: masulli from disi.unige.it (Francesco Masulli) Date: Tue Mar 17 13:45:25 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] 2nd CFP: CIBB 2009 - 6th INT. MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS Genova (Italy) 15-17 October, 2009 Message-ID: <200903171313.25494.masulli@disi.unige.it> Please, accept our apologies for multiple postings. The CIBB 2009 web site is now ready for paper submission ========================================================================================= CIBB 2009 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS Genova (Italy) 15-17 October, 2009 Conference Website: http://cibb09.disi.unige.it/ The main goal of the CIBB meetings is to provide a forum open to researchers from different disciplines to present and discuss problems concerning computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics with a particular focus on Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Logic, and Evolutionary Computation methods. CIBB 2009 is jointly organized by: *INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bioinformatics *GNCS Gruppo Nazionale Calcolo Scientifico *HHF Human Health Foundation Onlus *SIREN Italian Neural Networks Society *RNBIO The Italian Network for Oncology Bioinformatics *DISI Dept. Computer and Information Sciences - Univ. Genova (Italy) *DMI Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Univ. Salerno (Italy) Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2009 include, but are not limited to: * Sequence analysis, promoter analysis and identification of transcription factor binding sites * Gene expression data analysis * Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data * Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis * Methods for the functional classification of genes * Methods for the unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of structures discovered in bio-molecular data * Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures * Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics * Methods for comparative genomics * Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis * Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems * Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics * Bio-molecular databases and data mining * Algorithms for pharmacogenetics * Bio-medical text mining and imaging * Methods for diagnosis and prognosis * Software tools for bioinformatics Key-note lecturers: Taishin Nomura, Osaka University, Japan L. Gwenn Volkert, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Gilles Bernot, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis,France Leif E. Peterson, Methodist Hospital Research Institute Houston, TX, USA The scientific program will include, besides the key-note lectures, some tutorials (included in the registration fee) and contributed papers that will be presented in oral or poster sessions. The following Special Sessions will be included in the program: Combining Bayesian and Machine Learning Approaches in Bioinformatics: State of Art and Future Perspectives, organized by Claudia Angelini, Pietro Lio', Luciano Milanesi . ISMDS - Intelligent Systems for Medical Decisions Support, organized by Alexandru Floaresand Florin Manolache . Using game-theoretical tools in Bioinformatics, organized by Fioravante Patrone . Data Clustering and Bioinformatics, organized by Vassilis P. Plagianakos Dimitris K. Tasoulis . Accepted papers will be published in the compact disk of conference proceedings. A selection of papers presented at CIBB 2009 will be published in revised extended form as a post conference volume of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics LNBI/LNCS series of Springer Verlag. We are also planning to edit a special issue of an international journal containing contributions of the authors of the best papers presented to CIBB 2009. Chairs: Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA Leif E. Peterson, Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy Scientific Program Committee: Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Gilles Bernot, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Domenico Bordo, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy Giovanni Cuda, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy Joaquin Dopazo, Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain Enrico Formenti, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Antonio Giordano, University of Siena, Italy & Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA Emmanuel Ifeachor, University of Plymouth, UK Nicolas Le Novere, Wellcome-Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Giulio Pavesi, University of Milan, Italy David Alejandro Pelta, University of Granada, Spain Jagath Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Volker Roth, University of Basel, Switzerland Giuseppe Russo, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA, USA Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Italy Gennady M. Verkhivker, University of Kansas, KS & UC San Diego, CA, USA L. Gwenn Volkert, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Steering Commitee: Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, UK Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2009 Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2009 Final paper due: 15 July 2009 Conference: 15-17 October 2009 Paper submission: Papers must be prepared following the guidelines illustrated on the CIBB web site and should be not longer than 10 pages. The submission of papers will be done by uploading their PDF version on the CIBB web site. From nir from rosettadesigngroup.com Wed Mar 25 11:37:10 2009 From: nir from rosettadesigngroup.com (Nir London) Date: Wed Mar 25 11:45:23 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Rosetta Academic Training Webinar Message-ID: <4C3B78F4-2385-4068-AA31-4ACFC0E02E85@rosettadesigngroup.com> The Rosetta Design Group is proud to present the first webinar in the Rosetta Academic Workshop Series. For the first webinar, we have selected to focus on Protein-Protein Docking based on the answers to the interest poll. We hope this will be the first in a line of helpful and inspiring webinars to kick-off our Rosetta Academic Workshop Series. What: Protein-Protein Docking When: May 4th 2009, 0800-1000 AM EST Where: Your office! Click here for more details and registration (For non html emails: http://rosettadesigngroup.com/RDGLS/index.php?sid=54479&lang=en ) Pleas note: This is not a promotional webinar. Rosetta is open-source and freeware for academic and non-profit organizations and can be downloaded here from University of Washington's TechTransfer Digital Ventures. The majority of the webinar is concerned with Rosetta 2.3.0. Rosetta 3.0 is still a beta version. Hope to see you there, Nir London. Rosetta Design Group | http://rosettadesigngroup.com/ From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Fri Mar 27 08:51:19 2009 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Fri Mar 27 11:11:14 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] CFP - Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics: eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09. Bursary Awards available. Deadline March 31 Message-ID: <356a0e34-2f4c-4536-a167-a7f27ba02850@l19g2000vba.googlegroups.com> This is a reminder as the deadlines for abstract submission and bursary award applications are March 31. 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. Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting October 13-16, 2009 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA Conference Link: http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferences Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Fragment-based Screening, Free Energy Methods, Structural Biology, Systems Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME, Chemogenomics, Binding Energies, PDB Ligands 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 InnovationWell 2009 meeting. Call for Papers: Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted by March 31, 2009, and be accompanied by a short biography and photo of the presenting author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific organizing committee will be selected for scheduling on the conference program. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of submitted materials takes place and at the latest by April 15, 2009. Abstracts for posters will continue to be accepted for review through August 31, 2009. Please visit http://www.douglasconnect.com/ for submission guidance. A pre-conference best practices workshop will take place October 12, 2009. Bursary Awards Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic investigators at the meeting and workshops. Applicants can be working in any area of research related to drug discovery. Application deadline March 31, 2009. http://echeminfo.com/comty_bursarybm09 Contact: Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. email: echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg 14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. echeminfo - [at]- douglasconnect.com From conferences from embl.de Fri Mar 27 10:10:20 2009 From: conferences from embl.de (EMBL Courses & Conferences) Date: Fri Mar 27 11:11:20 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] GeneGo's Group Meetings, 28-29 April 2009, Germany Message-ID: <200903271508.n2RF8oh20642@net.bio.net> GeneGo?s User Group Meetings - Register today! 28-29 April 2009 , Heidelberg, Germany - EMBL RSVP today to reserve your seat? The User Group Meeting is free of charge and we will be having excellent presentations from GeneGo users showing how they apply MetaCore and MetaDrug to their projects. We will then follow this with roundtable feedback discussions. We will share information we have from the US user group meeting and follow this with a training course to introduce everyone to MetaCore and show some ?tricks of the trade?. Please take a look at the agenda below. We have limited space for this meeting so please reserve a seat today by emailing erin@genego.com or go to our web site for more details: http://www.genego.com/ugm.php Agenda: Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Building number 4 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstr. 1 EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany 8:30 ? 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 ? 9:45 am GeneGo news and fundamentals, Julie Bryant, VP Business Development, GeneGo Inc 9:45 ? 10:45 am Welcome address, Dr Yuri Nikolsky, CEO, GeneGo Inc GeneGo?s scientific vision for systems biology and what the future has in store 10:45 ? 11:00 am Break 11:00 ? 11:45 am Dr. Ewan Hunter, Application Scientist, GeneGo Inc, ?Biological Pathway and Network analysis of a genome wide association study (GWAS) of Parkinson Disease patients.? 11:45 am ? 12:30 pm Professor Nicol Keith, University of Glasgow, ?Biomarker & drug development opportunities in telomerase cancer biology & cellular senescence? 12:30 ? 1:15 pm Lunch 1:15 ? 2:00 pm Dr. Julie Huxley-Jones, GlaxoSmithKline, ?Pathway analysis for drug discovery? 2:00 ? 2:45 pm Dr. Richard Brennan, Director of Toxicology, GeneGo, ?Systems biology approaches to mechanistic and predictive toxicity assessment? 2:45 ? 3:00 pm Break 3:00 ? 3:45 pm Dr. Phil Hewitt, Merck Serono, ?Characterisation of peroxisome proliferators in rat and human primary hepatrocytes? 3:45 ? 4:30 pm Sarah J. McQuay, Linguamatics, ?Using agile NLP-based text mining to complement functional and network analysis for identifying key disease-related pathways? 4:30 ? 5:15 pm Dr. Andrew White, Unilever, ?Toxicogenomic Approaches and the utilization of MetaCore to Provide New Molecular Insights into Consumer Safety Endpoints? Tuesday, April 29th, 2009 Building number 4 European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstr. 1 EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany Training: Computer training lab 6.51a on 6th floor of building 1 D 8:30 ? 9:00 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 ? 9:05 am Logistics, Julie Bryant, VP Business Development, GeneGo Inc 9:05 ? 9:45 am Julie Bryant, VP Business development, GeneGo MetaMiner Project Update 9:45 ? 10:30 am Customer feedback and development suggestions roundtable 10:30 ? 10:45 am Break 10:45 ? 11:00 am Partners and integration round table 11:00 ? 11:15 am Close, Julie Bryant, VP Business Development, GeneGo Inc 11:15 am ? 12:30 pm Training session: Computer training lab 6.51a, on the 6th floor in building 1 D. Introduction and data mining 12:30 ? 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 ? 4 pm Training: Uploading data, running analysis, using workflows, ontological enrichment, pathway maps and networks. We look forward to seeing you. Thanks for all your support. Best Wishes Julie =================================== Julie Bryant VP Business Development GeneGo Inc 169 Saxony Rd Suite 104 Encinitas CA 92024 tel: 858 756 7996 Fax: 760 479 2059 julie@genego.com http://www.genego.com =================================== From sls5 from ohm.york.ac.uk Thu Mar 26 23:10:07 2009 From: sls5 from ohm.york.ac.uk (Stephen L. Smith) Date: Fri Mar 27 11:11:25 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] MedGEC - GECCO-2009 Workshop on Medical Applications - DEADLINE EXTENDED to 3 April 2009 Message-ID: <49CC519F.2090703@ohm.york.ac.uk> WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION MEDGEC to be held as part of the 2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009) July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday) Delta Centre-Ville Hotel Montreal, Canada Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: NOW 3 April 2009 We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to MedGEC 2009 the GECCO Workshop on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Full details can be found at the MedGEC Web site: http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/events/MedGEC2009/ Subjects will include (but are not limited to) applications of GEC to: Medical imaging Medical signal processing Clinical diagnosis and therapy Data mining medical data and records Clinical expert systems Modeling and simulation of medical processes A dedicated workshop at GECCO provides a much needed focus for medical related Applications of EC, not only providing a clear definition of the state of the art, but also support to practitioners for whom GEC might not be their main area of expertise or experience. The Workshop has two main aims: (i) to provide delegates with examples of the current state of the art of applications of GEC to medicine. (ii) to provide a forum in which researchers can discuss and exchange ideas, support and advise each other in theory and practice. GECCO is widely regarded to be the most authoritative conference in GEC and, as such, offers the ideal venue for this important and growing community. Important dates: Paper submission deadline: 3 April 2009 Notification of acceptance: 7 April, 2009 Camera-ready copy deadline: 16 April, 2009 Workshop: 8 July, 2009 For full details, please see the Workshop home page at: http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/events/MedGEC2009/ Stephen Smith Stefano Cagnoni Workshop Organizers -- Dr Stephen L. Smith Senior Lecturer in Electronics Department of Electronics The University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1904 432351 Fax: +44 (0)1904 432335 From tavares from fe.up.pt Fri Mar 27 14:21:45 2009 From: tavares from fe.up.pt (tavares@fe.up.pt) Date: Fri Mar 27 16:35:30 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] FINAL REMINDER: ECCOMAS VipIMAGE 2009 Submission deadline: April 6 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Apologies for cross-posting) International ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING 14-16th October 2009, FEUP, Porto, Portugal www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage Abstract submission deadline is April 6, 2009. We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleague, This is a final reminder that the deadline for abstracts submission for the II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (VipIMAGE 2009) is April 6 (www.fe.up.pt/ ~vipimage). Possible Topics (not limited to) • Image Processing and Analysis • Segmentation, Tracking and Analyze of Objects in Images • 3D Vision • Signal Processing • Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression • Objects Simulation • Virtual Reality • Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis • Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy and Treatment • Computational Bioimaging and Visualization • Telemedicine Systems and their Applications Invited Lecturers • Alejandro Frangi - Pompeu Fabra University, Spain • Christos E. Constantinou - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA • Demetri Terzopoulos - University of California, USA • Joaquim A. Jorge - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal • José Carlos Príncipe - University of Florida, USA • Lionel Moisan - Université Paris V, France • Tony Chan - University of California, USA Confirmed Thematic Sessions - Computer Vision in Robotics - Texture Image Analysis: Methods and Applications - Processing and Classification of Satellite Imagery - Small Animal Imaging: Trends and Techniques - Imaging of Biological Flows: Trends and Challenges Publications The proceedings book is going to be published by the Taylor & Francis Group, as happened with VipIMAGE 2007 (ISBN: 9780415457774). The organizers will encourage the submission of extended versions of the accepted papers to related International Journals; in particular for special issues dedicated to the conference. One possibility already confirmed is the International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics (IJCV&B). As what happened with VipIMAGE 2007, the organizers are going to edit a book to be published by SPRINGER (ISBN: 978-1-4020-9085-1), under the Computational Methods in Applied Sciences series, with invited works from the most important ones presented in the conference. Awards "best paper award" and "best student paper award" are going to be given to the author(s) of two papers presented at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee based on the best combined marks from the Scientific Committee and Session Chairs. Important dates • Submission of extended abstracts: April 6, 2009 (extended) • Lectures and Final Papers: June 15, 2009 We are looking forward to see you in Porto next October. Kind regards, João Manuel R. S. Tavares Renato Natal Jorge (conference co-chairs) PS. For further details, please see the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage From masulli from disi.unige.it Sun Mar 29 15:54:00 2009 From: masulli from disi.unige.it (Francesco Masulli) Date: Sun Mar 29 19:25:38 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] IJCNN 2009 - Tutorial on Introduction to Bioinformatics Data Sets Mining using Fuzzy Biclustering Message-ID: <200903292254.01304.masulli@disi.unige.it> Please, accept our apologies for multiple postings. ========================================================================================= Tutorial on "Introduction to Bioinformatics Data Sets Mining using Fuzzy Biclustering" at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009) Westin PeachTree Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 14, 2009 Tutorial web site: http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/conferences/IJCNN2009-tut.html IJCNN 2009 web site: http://cnd.memphis.edu/ijcnn2009/ Abstract: The analysis of genomic data from DNA microarray can produce a valuable information on the biological relevance of genes and correlations among them. In the last few years some biclustering techniques have been proposed and applied to this analysis. Biclustering is an un-supervised learning task aimed to find clusters of samples possessing similar characteristics together with features creating these similarities. Starting from the seminal paper by Cheng and Church published in 2000 [1], many biclustering techniques have been proposed for bioinformatic data analysis [2]. Biclustering is especially useful when applied to the analysis of DNA microarray data since it can tackle the important problem of identifying genes with similar behavior with respect to different conditions. Some biological tasks where biclustering can be successfully applied are: (1) Identification of co-regulated genes and/or specific regulation processes; (2) Gene functional annotation; (3) Sample and/or tissue classification. In this tutorial we will focus on the fuzzy model of biclustering as it is very promising from both a computational and a representation point of view [4,5,6,7]. This model allows finding multiple solutions (thus avoiding problems such as random interference [7]) with significant speed. Moreover, some techniques, based on the fuzzy-possibilistic approach to clustering, can find very large and homogeneous biclusters, as shown by experimental results. In the tutorial we will present also an experimental assessment of fuzzy biclustering algorithms, using some computationally parsimonious stability indexes [8] . References: [1] Y. Cheng and G. M. Church, Biclustering of expression data. Proc Int Conf Intell Syst Mol Biol, vol. 8, pp. 93-103, 2000. [2] S. C. Madeira and A. L. Oliveira, Biclustering algorithms for biological data analysis: A survey, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 1, pp. 24-45, 2004. [3] K. Umayahara, S. Miyamoto, and Y. Nakamori, Formulations of fuzzy clustering for categorical data, Int. J. of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 83-94, 2005. [4] W.-C. Tjhi and L. Chen, Minimum sum-squared residue for fuzzy co- clustering, Intelligent Data Analysis, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 237-249, 2006. [5] C. Cano, L. Adarve, J. Lopez, and A. Blanco, Possibilistic approach for biclustering microarray data, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 1426-1436, October 2007. [6] M. Filippone, F. Masulli, S. Rovetta, S. Mitra, and H. Banka, Possibilistic approach to biclustering: An application to oligonucleotide microarray data analysis.in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, C. Priami, Ed., vol. 4210. Springer, October 2006, pp. 312-322. [7] J. Yang, H. Wang, W. Wang, and P. Yu, Enhanced biclustering on expression data, in BIBE 03: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2003, p. 321. [8] M. Filippone, F. Masulli, and S. Rovetta, Comparing Fuzzy Approaches to Biclustering, Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Proceedings of the CIBB 2008, LNCS/LNBI, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany), 2008 (in press). Speakers: Francesco Masulli (1,2) and Stefano Rovetta (1) (1) DISI Dept. Computer and Information Sciences University of Genova and CNISM Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genoa, Italy E-mails: masulli disi.unige.it, rovetta disi.unige.it (3) Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University, 1900 N 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Registration: If interested, please chose this tutorial while registering to IJCNN 2009. If you already registered to IJCNN2009 and missed to register to this tutorial, email to inns_registrar@reesgroupinc.com <--------------------------------------------------------------------> Dr. Francesco Masulli Associate Professor of Computer Science DISI - Dept. Computer and Information Sciences University of Genova - Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genoa - ITALY tel. +39 010 353 6604 fax. +39 010 353 6699 and Adjunct Associate Professor Center for Biotechnology - College of Science and Technology -Temple University - Philadelphia - PA, USA. email: masulli@disi.unige.it skype id: masulli url: http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF <--------------------------------------------------------------------> From javeda from cs.rpi.edu Tue Mar 31 08:39:41 2009 From: javeda from cs.rpi.edu (javeda@cs.rpi.edu) Date: Tue Mar 31 12:09:08 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] APBC 2010 - The Eighth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference Message-ID: <5385.129.34.20.23.1238506781.squirrel@webmail.cs.rpi.edu> APBC 2010 - The Eighth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference Date: JAN 18-21, 2010 Venue: JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India URL: http://cs.nyu.edu/parida/APBC2010/index.html The Eighth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference will be held in Bangalore, India. 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Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics: Sequence analysis Motif search/discovery RNA analysis Physical and genetic maps Evolution and phylogeny Protein structure analysis Transcriptome, gene expression Proteomics Pathways, networks and systems Ontologies Population genetics/SNP/Haplotyping Comparative genomics Paper Submission Deadline: July 20, 2009 Author Notification: September 14, 2009 Final Version due: October 9, 2009 Submission details at: http://cs.nyu.edu/parida/APBC2010/CFP.html Conference Chairs: Laxmi Parida, IBM Research, USA Ramanathan Sowdhamini, NCBS, India Tutorial Chair Nagasuma Chandra, IISc, India Industry Track M Vidyasagar, TCS, India Publication & Web Chair Asif Javed, IBM Research, USA Program Committee Gene Myers HHMI, Janelia Farm, USA (co-chair) Laxmi Parida IBM Research, USA (co-chair) Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University, USA Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Upinder Bhalla, National Center for Biological Sciences, India Alok Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Harmen Bussemaker, Columbia University, USA Francis Chin, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada Mikhail Gelfand, Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, Russia Roderic Guigo, Centre de Regulacio Genomica, Barcelona, Spain Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Daniel Huson, University of Tubingen, Germany Jenn-Kang Hwang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Uri Keich, University of Sydney, Australia Tak Wah Lam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Doheon Lee, KAIST, Korea Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada Wentian Li, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, USA Jingchu Luo, Peking University, China Bin Ma, University of Waterloo, Canada Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan Sharmila Mande, TCS, India Shekhar Mande, CDFD, India Bud Mishra, New York University, USA Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan Debasisa Mohanty, National Institute of Immunology, India Kenta Nakai, University of Tokyo, Japan Gajendra Raghava, Institute of Microbial Technology, India Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech, USA Marie-France Sagot, INRIA and University Claude Bernard Lyon, France R. Sankararamakrishnan, IIT Kanpur, India David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada Rahul Siddharthan, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University, USA Paul Spellman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Pramod Wangikar, IIT Bombay, India Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Luoxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Michael Zhang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Hongyu Zhao, Yale University, USA From tavares from fe.up.pt Sun Mar 8 14:14:55 2009 From: tavares from fe.up.pt (tavares@fe.up.pt) Date: Wed Sep 30 17:17:21 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] (no subject) Message-ID: <2cd6536c-060b-4832-9da3-f06f097d4a2a@m24g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Apologies for cross-posting) International ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING 14-16th October 2009, FEUP, Porto, Portugal www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage DEADLINE APPROACHING We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, This is a gently reminder that the deadline for abstracts submissions to International Conference VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING is March 15th, 2009 (www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage). Possible Topics (not limited to) • Image Processing and Analysis • Segmentation, Tracking and Analyze of Objects in Images • 3D Vision • Signal Processing • Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression • Objects Simulation • Virtual Reality • Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis • Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy and Treatment • Computational Bioimaging and Visualization • Telemedicine Systems and their Applications Invited Lecturers • Alejandro Frangi - Pompeu Fabra University, Spain • Christos E. Constantinou - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA • Demetri Terzopoulos - University of California, USA • Joaquim A. Jorge - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal • José Carlos Príncipe - University of Florida, USA • Lionel Moisan - Université Paris V, France • Tony Chan - University of California, USA Thematic Sessions Proposals to organize Thematic Session within VipIMAGE 2009 are mostly welcome. The organizers of the selected thematic sessions will be included in the conference scientific committee and will have a reduced registration fee. They will be responsible for the dissemination of their thematic session, may invite expertise researches to have invited keynotes during their session and will participate in the review process of the submitted contributions. Proposals for Thematic Sessions should be submitted by email to the conference co-chairs (tavares@fe.up.pt, rnatal@fe.up.pt). Confirmed Thematic Sessions (not yet closed) - Computer Vision in Robotics - Texture Image Analysis: Methods and Applications - Processing and Classification of Satellite Imagery - Small Animal Imaging: Trends and Techniques - Imaging of Biological Flows: Trends and Challenges Publications The proceedings book is going to be published by the Taylor & Francis Group, as happened with VipIMAGE 2007 (ISBN: 9780415457774). The organizers will encourage the submission of extended versions of the accepted papers to related International Journals; in particular for special issues dedicated to the conference. One possibility already confirmed is the International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics (IJCV&B). As what happened with VipIMAGE 2007, the organizers are going to edit a book to be published by SPRINGER (ISBN: 978-1-4020-9085-1), under the Computational Methods in Applied Sciences series, with invited works from the most important ones presented in the conference. Awards "best paper award" and "best student paper award" are going to be given to the author(s) of two papers presented at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee based on the best combined marks from the Scientific Committee and Session Chairs. Important dates • Submission of extended abstracts: March 15, 2009 • Lectures and Final Papers: June 15, 2009 We are looking forward to see you in Porto next October. Kind regards, João Manuel R. S. Tavares Renato Natal Jorge (conference co-chairs) PS. For further details, please see the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage From tavares from fe.up.pt Tue Mar 17 13:42:20 2009 From: tavares from fe.up.pt (tavares@fe.up.pt) Date: Wed Sep 30 17:17:26 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] (no subject) Message-ID: <2805c8f0-2367-4c36-9525-e94dfcaed9f5@13g2000yql.googlegroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Apologies for cross-posting) International ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING 14-16th October 2009, FEUP, Porto, Portugal www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage Abstract submission deadline extended to 4th April We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce an extension of the deadline for abstract submission to the II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (VipIMAGE 2009) to April 6 (www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage). Possible Topics (not limited to) • Image Processing and Analysis • Segmentation, Tracking and Analyze of Objects in Images • 3D Vision • Signal Processing • Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression • Objects Simulation • Virtual Reality • Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis • Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy and Treatment • Computational Bioimaging and Visualization • Telemedicine Systems and their Applications Invited Lecturers • Alejandro Frangi - Pompeu Fabra University, Spain • Christos E. Constantinou - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA • Demetri Terzopoulos - University of California, USA • Joaquim A. Jorge - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal • José Carlos Príncipe - University of Florida, USA • Lionel Moisan - Université Paris V, France • Tony Chan - University of California, USA Thematic Sessions Proposals to organize Thematic Session within VipIMAGE 2009 are mostly welcome. The organizers of the selected thematic sessions will be included in the conference scientific committee and will have a reduced registration fee. They will be responsible for the dissemination of their thematic session, may invite expertise researches to have invited keynotes during their session and will participate in the review process of the submitted contributions. Proposals for Thematic Sessions should be submitted by email to the conference co-chairs (tavares@fe.up.pt, rnatal@fe.up.pt). Confirmed Thematic Sessions (not yet closed) - Computer Vision in Robotics - Texture Image Analysis: Methods and Applications - Processing and Classification of Satellite Imagery - Small Animal Imaging: Trends and Techniques - Imaging of Biological Flows: Trends and Challenges Publications The proceedings book is going to be published by the Taylor & Francis Group, as happened with VipIMAGE 2007 (ISBN: 9780415457774). The organizers will encourage the submission of extended versions of the accepted papers to related International Journals; in particular for special issues dedicated to the conference. One possibility already confirmed is the International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics (IJCV&B). As what happened with VipIMAGE 2007, the organizers are going to edit a book to be published by SPRINGER (ISBN: 978-1-4020-9085-1), under the Computational Methods in Applied Sciences series, with invited works from the most important ones presented in the conference. Awards "best paper award" and "best student paper award" are going to be given to the author(s) of two papers presented at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee based on the best combined marks from the Scientific Committee and Session Chairs. Important dates • Submission of extended abstracts: April 6, 2009 (extended) • Lectures and Final Papers: June 15, 2009 We are looking forward to see you in Porto next October. Kind regards, João Manuel R. S. Tavares Renato Natal Jorge (conference co-chairs) PS. For further details, please see the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage