NBIC Events

RSG BioCafe: "How to get a Nature cover?"

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Illustrations in scientific publications tremendously help in clarifying complex biological systems. Think about nature covers, textbooks and 3D visualizations.
RogierTrompertis an artist specialized in Scientific Illustration.Tromperthas worked for several scientist, pharmaceutical companies and publishers combining his artistic skills with (3D) MRI and CT imaging techniques to make the perfect illustration. In this BioCafé there will also be a Tips ’n Tricks session by a professional publisher on how to pimp your thesis. Registration for this event is required, so please send an e-mail to: rsg-netherlands@iscbsc.org with your name, institute and whether you want come and eat dinner after the BioCafe.

BE Live IT 2009 conference

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:10:00 +0200

The BE Live IT conference 2009 is a unique pan-European conference in order to exchange valuable experiences and gain innovative ideas and views on how best to use the bioinformatics tools in your day-to-day R&D activities.

The two previous editions brought together from all over Europe numerous high level researchers, managers and bioinformaticians from the pharma, red, green, white biotechs, agro/agri-food, chemical and cosmetics industries. Registration: The attendance registration fee is set at Euro 350. Early birds registration will guarantee a free 3 star hotel room during the event . The Early birds registration period will end on 15 September 2009. Information: For further information (attendance, sponsorship, exhibition booths, etc.) and on-line registration do visit the conference website www.beliveit.org.

Life Sciences Momentum 2009 - Empowering the future

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:20:00 +0200

Life Sciences Momentum 2009 will offer insight into the latest developments in science and technology, the state of affairs within Dutch academia and industry, and the emerging opportunities for society and business. Life Sciences Momentum 2009 will focus on four key topics: discover opportunities, build on strength, encourage continuity and share responsibility. This year's Momentum promises to be the best year yet, as the event will cover the entire Life Sciences field. NGI expects a record number of guests from industry, science, government, healthcare, civil society organisations, education, finance, politics and media. Why Momentum 2009? The first and foremost purpose of the annual Momentum events is to offer a platform on which the Netherlands' Life Sciences sector has the chance to take stock of the current situation, look at best practices, and make plans to move forward. All the Netherlands' major players will be there to address these and any other topics. Through workshops, speeches, interactive sessions and the networking Plaza, you can find out just what's going on, and get advice on how to move forward in this exciting and highly promising field of science. Life Sciences Momentum 2009 is organized by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative. More information and registration via www.momentum2009.org

Schrodinger seminar: The application of Recent Advances in Biomolecular Modeling to Drug Discovery Problems

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:39:00 +0200

The seminar is jointly organized by Dr. Martine Prevost, Structure and Function of Membrane Biology Laboratory at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Schrödinger Inc. and it will take place at the Université de Bruxelles. The seminar is suitable for attendees with varying backgrounds, from those with little experience in the use of computational techniques wanting to learn more about their potential impact on drug discovery, to practicing computational chemists wanting to learn more about the use of recent advances in the Schrödinger suite and take advantage of the introductory training and direct contact with Schrödinger scientists. The seminar is divided into two sessions:

A morning session with presentation of case studies highlighting the use of key techniques such as loop refinement, protein flexibility in ligand docking via Induced Fit Docking, detection of multiple binding modes in ligand-based design, QM/MM methods and the exposure of the XP scoring function to identify key protein/ligand interactions for lead optimization.
The afternoon session will provide an opportunity for introductory demo on the use of Schrödinger software and for direct interaction with Schrödinger application scientists.

Registration
Participation is free of charge, but seats are limited. Please register by contacting: Katia Dekimeche
Senior Account Manager, Academia and Government
Schrödinger
katia.dekimeche@schrodinger.de

RSG BioCafe 'Visualize your science!'

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:54:00 +0200

The last two years the Regional Student Group has been organizing BioCafe's. These events are a nice opportunity to hear more from other research fields, to improve your "soft skills" like presenting your work, and to get in touch with other PhD students in the Netherlands. The topic of the next BioCafe is: Visualize your science! For the first time the RSG invited an international speaker: Nils Gehlenborg from the EBI will discuss his work on visualizing large microarray datasets. The second speaker is Michel Westenberg from Eindhoven University of Technology, and will reveal to us the visualization of biological networks. This Biocafé will be concluded with a visualization Quickfire during which each participant will have the opportunity to show his/her favorite/coolest/best image. You will have 30 seconds to explain why, what and how you made the image. Registration for this event is required, so please send an e-mail to rsg-netherlands@iscbsc.org with your name, institute and whether you want come and eat dinner after the BioCafe. If you want to show your work, you can also send in 1 ppt-slide containing the image and your name. Where: Poort van Kleef, (second floor of Café Carré), Mariaplaats 7, Utrecht

International EMBnet-RIBio Conference 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:38:00 +0100

The main topic of the conference will be: High Throughput Technologies, the Interface of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Open Software for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

The International EMBnet-RIBio Conference 2009 will be jointly organized by the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) and the Red Iberoamericana de Bioinformática (RIBio). This will be the first time the EMBnet's Annual General Meeting will take place outside of Europe, bringing together bioinformaticians from all over the world, together with the Iberoamerican Annual General Meeting, and representatives of other major Bioinformatics societies in the World. The conference is open to submissions. Besides the main topic submissions will be accepted in all areas of bioinformatics (such as genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, data and text-mining, ontologies, education and e-learning tools available in Bioinformatics). There is funding available for ISCB affiliated students to attend the meeting provided they submit an abstract to the conference. More information can be found in the abstract guidlines on the website mentioned below.

Workshop Basic data analysis on gene expression arrays (BAGE)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:03:00 +0100

Upcoming 26-27 October the Research School Molecular Medicine organizes again the Workshop on Basic data analysis on gene expression arrays at the Erasmus MC. This 2-Day Workshop will cover the basic understanding of the workflow, required for the analysis of gene expression arrays (Illumina and Affymetrix). The second day will be mainly about advanced Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. It is primarily organized for PhD students and postdocs of the Erasmus Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine, Nihes and MGC. But other participants are also welcome but need to pay a fee. For more information and registration, please go to: www.molmed.nl.

Tutorial on Computational Systems Biology

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:02:00 +0100

This tutorial is organised in conjunction with Formal Methods 2009. This one-day tutorial provides an introduction to computational systems biology, starting with a crash course on molecular biology for computer scientist and continuing with discrete, continuous and stochastic modeling techniques, as well as formal methods-based approaches. A demonstration is included on Copasi (Complex Pathway Simulator), a useful tool for modeling and simulating sysbio projects. The well known heat shock response, that the lecturers and their research groups have been working on already for some years, will serve as a running example connecting the various topics. Lecturers: Ion Petre and Ralph-Johan Back, Abo Akademi University, Finland Registration deadline: October 16, 2009

Second International Workshop on Computational Models for Cell Processes

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:20:00 +0100

This workshop is organised in conjunction with Formal Methods 2009. Computational systems biology is an exciting new application area for applied mathematics and computer science. This workshop of the 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods fosters an excellent platform gathering researchers in formal methods and related fields that are interested in the wealth of opportunities and challenges in systems biology. Invited speakers:

Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Hidde de Jong (INRIA Grenoble - Rhone-Alpes)
Grzegorz Rozenberg (University of Leiden)

Registration deadline: October 19, 2009

Dynamics of Patterns Day

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:00 +0100

The DoP Days offer a Dutch discussion forum for current issues in nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation. The CWI will plan 2 to 3 half-day seminars per year for an audience of physicists, mathematicians and other interested disciplines. The sixth Dynamics of Patterns Day (DoP Day) will be held in combination with the inaugural lecture of KNAW visiting professor Willi Jäger on Nov 4, 2009, in the Trippenhuis (KNAW-building) in walking distance from Amsterdam Centraal Station, for directions see http://www.knaw.nl/contact/contact_eng.html.

Next Generation Sequencing Congress

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:56:00 +0100

This 2-day conference provides an overview of the current options of next-generation sequencing platforms, technologies, applications and the newest computational tools for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data. The congress is held in conjunction with qPCR Congress, and is organised by Oxford Global Conferences.

Next-generation sequencing technologies are revolutionizing biology by allowing for genome-wide transcription factor binding-site profiling, transcriptome sequencing, and more recently, whole-genome resequencing. These technologies will provide a genome-wide sequence readout as an endpoint to applications ranging from chromatin immunoprecipitation, mutation mapping and polymorphism discovery to noncoding RNA discovery. The event will attract over 120 senior-level decision makers working in bioinformatics & data management, next generation sequencing, discovery, RNA profiling, molecular genomics, and clinical & diagnostics development from the UK, Europe and US. This prestigious event provides a forum for practitioners and researchers to learn more about key solutions being provided to their industry, network with their peers, and address key industry concerns through a series of cutting edge conference presentations in a professional yet relaxed environment. Over two days, the two events will attract over 120 senior-level decision makers working in discovery, gene expression, molecular biology, clinical development and data management from the Europe's leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies, academic and research institutions. In keeping with Oxford Global's highly successful life sciences series, an expert panel of 45 speakers will present a full conference programme covering the following topics: NGS in High Throughput Sequencing Platforms, Applying NGS to Genomic and Genetic Research and Data Analysis/Strategies/Management. There will be a series of partnering sessions, where it will be possible to meet with a select number of vendor companies. There are also a number of social, networking activities at which it will be possible to forge new and strengthen existing relationships with other delegates.

FGCN Launch Symposium

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Forensic genomics is a new area of genetic research with clear expectations for forensic applications. It focuses on the use of genomic data to reveal information that can finally be extracted from DNA of biological crime scene samples to help criminal justice professionals to identify victims and suspects. The Netherlands enjoys a top global position in this exciting new field of providing genomic use for societal benefit. The Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands (FGCN) is organizing a launch symposium on 19 November 2009 at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. The program will offer presentations by international speakers on different uses of genomics in various fields of forensic sciences. You will also witness a perspective outlook at future possibilities of solving crimes with the help of research obtained by FGCN. Finally, there will be a (optional) tour about the science and high-quality forensic services at the NFI. For more information about the consortium and a full description of the program, please visit the website at www.forensicgenomics.nl. The way crime is solved is about to change. This is your chance to be there when it does.

SWAT4LS Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:59:00 +0100

This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of technologies and tools provided by the Semantic Web in biomedical informatics and computational biology. 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.

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 had potential impact on the future of publishing, biological research and medicine. The programme for the 2009 edition of SWAT4LS in in definition. The workshop will range over one full day (from 9.00am to 6.30pm), and will be followed by a social dinner. The scientific programme will include:

invited lectures
oral communications on applications, tools and use cases, selected from submissions
poster/demo session
a panel discussion on perspectives of the Semantic Web in life sciences

The keynote speakers of the 2009 edition of SWAT4LS will be:

Barend Mons, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam and Leiden University Medical Center
Michael Schroeder, Biotechnology Center TU Dresden
Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons

For more information and registration visit the website: http://swat4ls.org/2009/

Open Source in Biology: exception or alternative to intellectual property?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Introduction
Intellectual property rights have been introduced and strengthened in the last decades, including those on source code and genetic code. An important difference between informatics and biology is, however, that shortly after the introduction of intellectual property rights, an alternative became available in informatics. The open source movement has demonstrated since the early eighties that innovation in informatics is possible on the basis of the sharing and the improvement of the source code of software programs and operating systems. A comparable development occurs in biology as a consequence of the tensions between intellectual property and changing conceptions in research about genes, genomes, proteomes, cells and so forth. Increasingly this involves digital information that needs to be shared and modelled in distributed networks. It is in this context that open source appears as an alternative to intellectual property: it is among several exceptions to intellectual property that become necessary when genetic information and genetic modification are involved. The aim of this seminar is to open for discussion about a different kind of interpretation of open source in biology. Could open source in biology also be about a more desirable alternative? – could it be a counterbalance to the further increase in private control and public regulation of genetic resources that are the crucial for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation? The speakers are:

Prof dr. Guido Ruivenkamp (Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit & CTC, Wageningen University)
Prof dr. Jack Kloppenburg (Department of community and environmental sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Dr. Jan Velterop (Concept Web Alliance, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre)
Prof dr. ir. Steve Hughes (Egenis, University of Exeter)
Dr. Jane Calvert (Innogin, University of Edinburgh)

Programme and more information about registration can be found in the pdf-file below.

Workshop NDNS+: Statistics and the Life Sciences

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:32:00 +0100

The NDNS+ cluster organizes approximately twice per year workshops. The next next workshop in this series is: Statistics and the Life Sciences: High-dimensional inference and complex data. High-dimensionality has become a permanent feature of many data structures in the life sciences. From genetics to environmental sciences, from medical sciences to biology, data is rushing towards the statistician who needs to keep a cool head. This workshop presents the coolest heads in the field. The organizers are Ernst Wit, Edwin van den Heuvel, and Siem Heisterkamp.

"On science and professional practice: Where education and knowledge meet"

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:59:00 +0100

In the Netherlands, Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS, in Dutch 'HBO') play an important role in translating new scientific knowledge to its application in professional practice. The meeting "On science and professional practice: Where education and knowledge meet" brings together representatives of UAS and of 37 Dutch 'BSIK' research programmes, including the NBIC BioRange programme, to exchange information on how these programmes can contribute to education and applied research at UAS and vice versa, how research programmes can benefit from UAS' knowledge on the professional practice. The meeting is hosted by SenterNovem (part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs) and the 'HBO Raad', the Dutch organisation of UAS. On behalf of BioRange, Celia van Gelder, project leader education at NBIC, is part of the organising committee and she will present an update and results of the NBIC's activities in collaborating with Dutch UAS on, among others, setting up a network of teachers and organising teacher training sessions. In addition, there will be a BioRange booth at the conference exhibition. Please note that the official language during the meeting will be Dutch. More information about the event including the full programme and information about registration is available here.

RSG BioCafé at the evening before BBC

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

13 Dec 2009 -

Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2009

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:06:00 +0100

The Benelux Bioinformatics Conference is a two-day international conference on bioinformatics. Computational methods and mathematical models are playing an ever increasing role in large-scale "omics" molecular biology, leading to the emergence of bioinformatics as a scientific discipline within Systems Biology, with major applications in health and green biotechnology. The Benelux Bioinformatics Conference is the primary community event for bioinformatics researchers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg with excellent networking opportunities. The conference is aimed at both academic and industry researchers. Both days will feature:

Extended keynote presentations on recent breakthroughs in bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Short presentations contributed by the participants and detailing recent advances
Extensive poster sessions for informal discussions and networking

Participants are invited to submit their poster abstracts by October 19, 2009. The short contributions will be selected from the poster abstracts by the scientific committee.

CFP Statistical Methods for Post-Genomic Data Workshop

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:58:00 +0100

The 2010 edition of Statistical Methods for Post-Genomic Data workshop, SMPGD’10, will be held the 14th and 15th of January in Luminy, Marseille.

This edition will welcome three invited speakers, three invited sessions and one contributed session. Among others, the following topics will be discussed:

Epigenetics (ChIP)
Networks Analysis
Comparative Genomics
Feature Selection and Statistical Learning

IBIVU Symposium: Comparing building blocks of life

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:50:00 +0100

On the occasion of Walter Pirovano defending his thesis "Comparing building blocks of life - Sequence alignment and evaluation of predicted structural and functional features" (BioRange/NBIC), the IBIVU will organise a symposium on Friday 15 January 2010 at the Vrije Universiteit - W&N building room C121.

Advances in Genomics 2010

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Advances in Genomics 2010 is a 2 day symposium centered around 2 core technologies in the field of genomics: real-time quantitative PCR and massively parallel sequencing (both second and third generation, together labeled as next generation). The meeting takes place on January 28-29, 2010, in Ghent (Belgium), a vibrant city known for its science and culture. Please check out the program for most up to date information on the impressive list of confirmed speakers. Important dates
Abstract submission : September 1 – November 30, 2009
Registration deadline : December 24, 2009

WikiPathways Curation Jamboree

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:23:00 +0100

WikiPathways (www.wikipathways.org) is an open, collaborative platform for the curation of biological pathways, created to facilitate the contribution and maintenance of pathway information by the biology community. WikiPathways currently contains hundreds of pathways for 18 species. Have you heard about WikiPathways and wanted to contribute, but didn't know where to start? Here's your chance! On February 11th-12th, a curation event is organized to improve the quality of the pathways. The main focus of this event is to make the pathways more informative by adding descriptions and literature references. Curation events are open to all registered WikiPathways users, no prior experience necessary!

How to participate

Check out the Guidelines page to get a sense of the curation tasks involved: http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Curation_Jamboree_2010
Register at WikiPathways and start curating! Be sure to add your name to the list of participating curators here: http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Curation_Events

Support
WikiPathways admins and curators will be available in an online chat channel to answer questions immediately. (See http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Curation_Jamboree_2010 for details). You can also post questions to the WikiPathways mailing list: wikipathways-discuss@googlegroups.com If you have comments about a specific pathway and would like to start a discussion about it, you can do that on the Discussion page of the pathway in question. You can access the Discussion page via the Discussion tab at the top of the pathway page. Can't make it this time?
If you can't participate this time around, stay tuned on the wikipathways-announce mailing list for future events, or check the Curation Events page at WikiPathways
(http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Curation_Events) or the Community Interest section of WikiPathways main page.

WikiPathways was developed in one of the NBIC BioRange projects: see more.

BIO MDA meeting

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:19:00 +0100

The next BIO MDA meeting is scheduled on Thursday 18th of February 2010 at Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis, Utrecht and it will start at 13:30. Two presentations will be given:

13:30 – 14:30: Marcel Reinders – Inference of biological networks
14:30 – 15:00: coffee break
15:00 – 16:00: Daniel Vis – Hormones, dynamics and networks

Important: Please contact Margriet Hendriks wether you are planning to attend the meeting, e-mail: m.hendriks-9@umcutrecht.nl For more information, take a look at the website mentioned below.

NBIC thematic meeting: Protein Structures Bioinformatics

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:20:00 +0100

The Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is co-organising this meeting on March 1^st in Nijmegen. This NBIC thematic meeting aims to bring together all scientists working in the field of protein structure bioinformatics. Location
UMC St Radboud
NCMLS Building, Colloquium Room
8th Floor, Route 289
Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28
6525 GA Nijmegen
The Netherlands Registration
The registration has been closed. Programme
10:00 Reception / registration / coffee
10:25    Welcome by G. Nicolaes, University of Maastricht

10:30    Dr. Elmar Krieger, Yasara; Graz, Austria
         “Homology modelling with YASARA”
10:45    Discussion

11:30    Dr. Jürgen Haas, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)/Biozentrum;
Basel, Switzerland
         “Preparing structures for bioinformatics, i.e. GROMACS”
12:15    Discussion

12:30    Lunch
13:30    Prof. dr. Bert de Groot, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry;
   University of Goettingen, Germany
         “Using GROMACS in the modelling world”
14:15    Discussion

14:30    Dr. Sander Nabuurs, CMBI; UMC St Radboud Nijmegen
         “Homology models and dynamics for drug design”
15:15    Discussion

15:30    Closing remarks by Ad van Gorp, Lead Pharma

15:35    Tea
16:00    Discussion about the organisation of protein structure bioinformatics in
the Netherlands (and its neighbours)
17:00    Drinks

DNA-labs on the road conference

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +0100

The DNA-labs on the road is a great hit among high schools, teachers and students. Hundreds of teachers and thousands of students can tell about the success of this educational project. But the DNA-labs continues in developing educational material and giving insights in modern genomics research. Enough reasons for telling everyone about our progress: The 'DNA-labdag' is a national conference on genomics for high school teachers and technical assistants. With keynote speakers: forensic geneticist Prof. Dr. Peter de Knijff (genetics and human evolution) and Prof. Dr. Jan Hoeijmakers (DNA and ageing). And workshops on genomics and didactics. Several workshops include bioinformatics and the NBIC-project 'bioinformatics@school'. Read more about the 'DNA-labdag' on www.dnalabdag.nl (Dutch).

Course: Next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:56:00 +0100

Onderzoeksschool Medisch Genetisch Centrum Zuid-West Nederland is organising the 3rd edition of the 'Next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis' course at the Leiden University Medical Center. This course aims at PhD students, postdocs, and senior researchers who are interested in, planning, or already working with next-generation sequencing. Researchers from both the genomics and bioinformatics fields are welcome. Currently available technologies as well as hardware and software solutions will be presented and discussed. The focus of the course will be on the data and ways to analyse the data. Course organizers are: Matthew Hestand, Judith Boer and Johan den Dunnen (LUMC) NBIC is sponsoring this course. You can register via the MGC website: http://www.medgencentre.nl

International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB2010)

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:19:00 +0100

This sixth annual meeting will be held in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on March 22-24, 2010. Biological data are scattered across thousands of biological databases and hundreds of scientific journals. Current high throughput genomics technologies generate large quantities of high dimensional data. Microarray, NMR, mass spectrometry, protein chips, gel electrophoresis data, Yeast-Two-Hybrid, QTL mapping, gene silencing, and knockout experiments are all examples of technologies that capture thousands of data points, often in single experiments. The challenge for Integrative Bioinformatics is to capture, model, integrate, and analyse these data in a consistent way to provide new and deeper insights into complex biological systems. This sixth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and others working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. There will be opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches, and their practical applications. IB2010 is organized by Rothamsted Research, The University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben. For more information, visit the website.

NBIC Conference 2010

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:22:00 +0200

Announcement of the fifth edition of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre Conference: Date: 29 & 30 March 2010
Venue: Congrescentrum De Werelt, Lunteren Programme
This year the conference will consist of 2 separate days: a closed BioRange Project Meeting on March 29 aimed at the NBIC programmes and researchers and an open 2nd NBIC Conference day on March 30.

Additional information can be found here

Inserm workshop: Interactomics: at the crossroads of biology and bioinformatics

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:16:00 +0100

Phase I • Critical assessment
March 30- April 1, 2010 • Saint-Raphaël • France

Aims:
Proteins rarely act alone: they often interact with other macromolecules in order to accomplish their functions. Protein-protein interactions are therefore critical to most biological processes. Systematic approaches for identifying them have been developped over the years, such as yeast two-hybrid or affinity purification-mass spectrometry. These methods have enabled the mapping of complex interaction networks in various model organisms, which are profoundly modifying our understanding of cellular mechanisms by providing us with an integrated view of biological processes. However, due to their complexity, such networks can be intimidating and difficult to take advantage of by hypothesis-driven experimental biologists. The main difficulties are typically methodological and technical (for example knowledge and application of bioinformatics tools), but also and more fundamentally they stem from the changes in reasoning required by the systems biology approach. Protein-protein interaction networks being a very rich but neglected source of information, the workshop will present the main strengths and challenges in producing and using this data. Indeed, a better understanding of the processes, questions and solutions proposed by labs that produce and analyze interactomics data should facilitate its general use. The topics addressed will include:

identifying protein-protein interactions: high-throughput methods, validation of results, quality assessment;
protein-protein interaction databases: contents, standards, direct submissions;
topological and functional analysis of protein-protein interaction networks: methods and tools;
application to biological questions: candidate genes, signaling, host-pathogen interactions, development, evolution.

Audience:
Researchers, physicians, post-docs, technicians, engineers and students interested in the interactome approach and the analysis of existing protein-protein interaction data, in order to benefit to their own research projects.

Phase II • Technical workshop
May 2010 • Marseille

Program:
Participants will learn to use existing tools for extracting functional information from publicly available molecular interaction data. The course is aimed at two subgroups of participants, depending on their computer skills. The goal is to enable the participants to study their own results in the light of previously known biomolecular interactions. 15 participants will be selected among the phase I participants.

7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB 2010)

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:29:00 +0200

The 7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB 2010) is scheduled on 22 and 23 April 2010 and is likely to continue its success from previous years in bringing different disciplines together to discuss ongoing research in bioinformatics and biology of networks. The focus of 7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics will be on biological networks such as metabolic networks, signal transduction pathways and genetic regulatory networks. This year the aim is to include topics like modeling of cells, tissues, gene regulation and biomineralisation. The organisation also wants to invite researchers working on gene networks in plants (e.g. Arabidopsis), model organisms such as Drosophila and organisms with a relatively simple and basal body plan such as sponges and scleractinian corals. Understanding of these networks is crucial for understanding molecular and cellular processes in the organism or system under study. This field is subject of lively research and both experimental and computational approaches are used to elucidate the biological networks. The bioinformatics of biological networks involves a broad range of research and approaches. Research includes the identification of regulatory elements in DNA, developmental biology, genome context analysis, modelling and simulation of pathways, reconstruction of pathways from experimental data, visualization of pathways, and the representation of pathways in database, graphs and mark-up languages. The program of ISNB2010 is now available on the conference website mentioned below. Keynote speakers are:

Dr. Steffen Klamt (Structural and Functional Analysis of Cellular Networks, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany)
Tomer Shlomi (Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Dr. Tali Raveh-Sadka (Segal lab of Computational Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Dr. Katy Wolfsencroft (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK)
Prof. dr. Yaochu Jin (Honda Research Institute, Germany)
Dr Yulia Kraus (Dept. of Evolutionary Biology, Moscow State University, Russia; Dept. of Molecular Evolution and Development, University of Vienna, Austria)
Dr. Frederic Marin (Biogeosciences University of Dijon, France)
Dr. Anthony Bertucci (Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Avenue Saint Martin, Monaco)

Organizers:
Bioinformatics Laboratory, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam
Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam
Regulatory Networks Group, CWI, Amsterdam

14th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2010)

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:13:00 +0200

RECOMB 2010 is the fourteenth in a series of well-established scientific conferences bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, and biological sciences. The conference features keynote talks by preeminent scientists in the life sciences, together with presentations of refereed research papers in computational biology. The conference series aims at attracting research contributions in all areas of computational molecular biology, including: molecular sequence analysis; recognition of genes and regulatory elements; molecular evolution; protein structure; structural genomics; analysis of gene expression; biological networks; sequencing and genotyping technologies; drug design; probabilistic and combinatorial algorithms; systems biology; computational proteomics; structural and funcional genomics; information systems for computational biology and imaging. The origins of the conference are in the mathematical and computational side of the field, and there remains a certain focus on computational advances. However, the effective applications of computational techniques to achieve biological innovation remains a central aspect of the conference.

Catalytic mechanisms by biological systems: at the interface between chemistry and biology

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +0100

Recent developments of in vitro, in vivo and in silico research on biocatalytic reaction mechanisms are continuously advancing our insight of the chemistry and biochemistry of catalytic mechanisms by biological systems. The structural and dynamical properties of the proteins are of key importance in this respect. At this conference advanced methodological approaches will be covered, ranging from high resolution kinetic protein crystallography, neutron crystallography, NMR, and mass spectroscopy to single molecule spectroscopy and enzymology. The importance of stability, regulatory, substrate-binding and kinetic properties of enzymes in the context of cellular processes will be highlighted. New emerging technologies important for biocatalysis research for example using transition state analogues and directed evolution methods allow for more insight into the biocatalytic mechanisms. Also bioinformatics and biocomputational approaches are very important in this respect. The conference is aimed at bringing together experts working at the interface of this multidisciplinary research field to facilitate stimulating discussions on this fascinating topic, which is also of key importance for the development of biotech related applications. The multidisciplinary program will provide an ideal framework for getting to know the experts as well as the latest developments in this research field. There will be approximately 25 invited speakers. Participants are encouraged to bring posters, which will be on display during the whole length of the meeting in the lecture hall. Selected poster topics can be included for a general talk. The number of participants is limited to 120.

Workshop BioTM-2010

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +0100

Text mining has become indispensible in many biological and biomedical sciences. Having to keep up with an increasing number of publications, text mining techniques enable retrieval and analysis of large amounts of documents in a fully automated fashion. They allow for extraction of facts described in the literature that have not yet been recorded in databases, thus providing a necessary tool to obtain a complete overview of all available knowledge.

Recently, the application of text mining and natural language processing techniques to the biological and medical sciences has recieved increasing interest. In addition to many new workshops and conferences arising in this domain, recently also a number of community-wide tasks were conducted to benchmark text mining techniques on specific challenges (e.g. BioCreative, BioNLP Shared Task, ...).

By discussing the latest developments and potentially new applications in text mining amongst scientists in both academia and industry, this workshop aims to provide a broad view on text mining tools in biology and biomedicine. The workshop aims at a broad public, including researchers with an interest in text mining but with little or no experience in this domain. To this end, the workshop will start with an extensive tutorial on text mining in the bio-sciences, providing sufficient background knowledge for novices.

Next, a number of keynote talks will be given by leading scientists, presenting the latest advances in the field. Furthermore, participants are highly encouraged to submit an abstract describing their own work. They will be given the opportunity to present this work in 5min flash presentations, as well as to present a poster during the coffee and lunch breaks.

Finally, there will be a round-table discussion about the broader applicability of text-mining tools in the biological sciences, trying to bridge the gap between theoretical algorithms and experimental work. For more information: visit the website mentioned below.

Patent workshop IOP Genomics

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:54:00 +0100

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative, NL Patent Office and the Programme Office IOP Genomics kindly invite you to participate in the Patent Workshop 2010.This workshop will discuss basic patent facts, as well as look at knowledge protection from a genomics/Life Science point of view. If you are a PhD student, postdoc or projectleader from either academia or a company,
wanting to know more about patents, this is the workshop for you! The workshop takes place on 11 May 2010 at the Patent Office in Rijswijk and is free of charge. For more information or registration, please contact:
Ms. Anjali Raghoenath
anjali.raghoenath@agentschapnl.nl
phone 088-6025496

CCGrid-Health 2010

Mon, 17 May 2010 16:50:00 +0200

Grids are becoming increasingly popular for HealthCare applications including medical imaging, bioinformatics and drug discovery. Although extensive research effort is being carried out in the area of grids and distributed systems, current HealthGrid developers often rely on ad-hoc developments, sometimes ignoring elaborated solutions that may help solving their issues in a more elegant way. At the same time, many research works remain hardly applicable to HealthGrid applications due to unrealistic assumptions. HealthCare applications currently offer complete use-cases for data and computing grids involving not only performance concerns but also data management, security, reliability and user-friendliness. This workshop aims at reserving room for discussion about the challenges for the construction and deployment of grids in Healthcare within CCGrid, offering a contact opportunity between HealthGrid application developers and contributing to reduce the gap between the research and production grid communities. The workshop has the goals of obtaining an overview of ongoing efforts in health-related grid applications; obtaining an overview of challenges (technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks); and identifying common requirements to lead to future developments in collaboration between Health and Computing Sciences. The workshop will be collocated with CCGrid 2010, the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing to take place in May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The presented papers will appear in the CCGrid'2010 proceedings. Important dates:

Papers due: 18 December 2009
Notification of acceptance: 11 January 2010
Camera-ready: 5 February 2010
Workshop: 17-20 May 2009

Additional information, including Program Committee:
http://www.science.uva.nl/~silvia/CCGrid-Health/

Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:09:00 +0100

Between May 17th and 28th 2010, the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) in collaboration with the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), will host a joint summer school under the theme "Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks". Summer School 2010 aims to prepare students to satisfy the increasing demand in academia, government, and industry for people with cross-disciplinary training who, with various degrees of competence, can speak the languages of the mathematical, physical and biological sciences.

Students and postdoctoral fellows who register for the session, which lasts for a duration of 2 weeks, will have the opportunity to benefit from the instruction of international experts in the field of mathematical modeling, nonlinear dynamics and biological networks. They will also have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills through the various lab activities that have been scheduled, and also through the presentation of students' projects which by all measures, will be the highlight of CAMBAM-MBI Summer School 2010 activities. DEADLINE DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS IS MARCH 1, 2010
There is no tuition fee and the Summer School organizers have committed to cover accommodation costs for participants who opt to stay in the McGill Residence for the two weeks. However, students are expected to cover the full cost of their travel to and from Montreal as well as their upkeep during the two weeks. In addition, persons who have been selected to participate in the Summer School will be expected to pay a registration fee. After receipt of notification of participation from the Summer School organizers, students will have up to March 15th, 2010 to pay the $150 registration fee. Thereafter and up to April 15th, students will have to pay $200. For more information you can contact: Michael C. Mackey, Ph.D. FRSC
Joseph Morley Drake Professor of Physiology Department of Physiology Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience & Medicine
(CAMBAM)
McGill University
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Room 1124 Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6 CANADA
email: michael.mackey@mcgill.ca

26th Annual Symposium on Chemometrics

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:47:00 +0200

This year's edition of the Annual Symposium on Chemometrics will be centered on two themes, namely Visualisation and the use of Prior Knowledge. The Annual Symposium on Chemometrics aims at presenting the current state of the art in chemometric research in the Netherlands. It is meant as a platform for the different research groups to present their recent work. This year the symposium will be split in a morning session around methods allowing the integration of prior knowledge in models and an afternoon session around visualisation. Several speakers from various disciplines will illustrate this, drawing upon their hands-on experience. Additionally the day will be closed with a lively discussion around the use and abuse of statistics in athletic sports. Participants are invited to share their work during the poster session that will take place during the lunch break. For more information about registration and poster submission, please visit the website mentioned below.

Workshop Statistical challenges of NGS in plants

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:54:00 +0100

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies will soon enable us to sequence plant genomes for less than 1000 euros. This will accelerate plant genomics and biological research. However, the dramatic expansion in both the availability of sequence data and the range of sequencing-based applications requires new statistical and bioinformatics techniques & approaches to unlock the sequence-treasury. The aim of this workshop is to build a community of researchers that are facing the design and analysis of experiments involving high-throughput sequence data. This community provides a low-entry platform for the presentation and discussion of problems, best-practice, solutions, ideas and future directions to empower its members.

The workshop will have only oral presentations by invitation. In addition, contributed papers will be highly appreciated via poster presentations. Marco Bink of the Plant Research International is chair of the workshop. This workshop is organised within EU Cost Action TD0801 "Statistical challenges on the 1000€ genome sequences in plants". The main objective of the Action is to use and/or develop, through coordinated international efforts, efficient statistical and bioinformatics tools and strategies in order to produce, assemble, analyze, and integrate high-throughput genomic sequence data, aiming at a better understanding of biological systems in plants.

ICCS 2010: "Celebrating 10 years of Advancing Computational Thinking"

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200

In 2010 ICCS celebrates its 10th anniversary in Amsterdam. For this great event five world leading keynote speakers will give their vision on Computational Science now and in the future. The International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010) aims to bring together researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various application areas who are pioneering advanced application of computational methods to sciences such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, arts and humanitarian fields, along with software developers and vendors, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help industrial users apply various advanced computational techniques. The theme for ICCS 2010 in Amsterdam is "Advancing Computational Thinking", to mark several decades of progress in computational science theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications in science. The conference will focuse on recent developments in methods and modelling of complex systems for diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas where the above novel models, algorithms and tools can be efficiently applied such as physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others. Besides excellent keynote speakers, out of the submitted papers to main track and workshops, some 30% high-quality papers will be selected for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, published by Elsevier in their new Procedia Computer Science series. For paper submission and more information about the conference please visit the conference website: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/

EMBRACE Workshop for Web Service Providers in Bioinformatics: Syntax, Semantics and Publishing

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:42:00 +0200

The workshop will introduce comprehensive guidelines for design, semantic annotation and publishing of SOAP-based Web Services in the area of life sciences. The participants should be familiar with the basic concepts of Web Services, and should preferably already have produced or have been involved in the production of one or more such services.

The emerging EMBRACE Guidelines for Web Service providers will be discussed in detail. The following issues of key importance to Web Service interoperability, easiness of use and visibility to the community will then be covered in depth: use of externally defined data types (example: BioXSD), semantic annotation (example: EDAM) and publishing (example: BioCatalogue).

All the points above will be illustrated with hands-on exercises. They will be performed on the participants' own Web Services. Thus, each participant should have remote access to his/her own Web Service generation workbench. Windows laptops with SSH and X11 will be provided on request.

The workshop will be held at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, building 208, in Lyngby, Denmark, very close to Copenhagen. It will both start and end at mid-day (Jun 2 and 4, respectively) leaving ample time to reach most European destinations on the same day.

To apply for the workshop, please sign up through the on-line application form below.

8th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:57:00 +0200

The 8th Basel Computational Biology Conference 2010 "Regulation and Control in Biological Systems" on June 24 & 25, 2010 will take place at the Conference Center Basel, Switzerland.

Invited speakers include:

Marvin Cassman (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Dalia Cohen (Rosetta Genomics, Rehovot, Israel & Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Keith O. Elliston (Genstruct Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA)
Ernst Hafen (Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich)
Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPF Lausanne & SIB)
Dagmar Iber (D-BSSE, ETH Zürich & SIB)
Douglas A. Lauffenburger (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Ivan Montoliu (Nestlé Research Center Lausanne)
Erik van Nimwegen (Biozentrum University of Basel & SIB)
Corrado Priami (Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy)
Uwe Sauer (Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich)
Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
Jörg Stelling (ETH Zürich & SIB)
Mihaela Zavolan (Biozentrum University of Basel & SIB)
Philip Zimmermann (ETH Zürich)
Winners of the SIB young bioinformatician awards 2010

The annual Basel Computational Biology Conference brings together scientists from academic research and companies interested in the field of computational biology. The main goal of the conference is to provide a platform for informal communication and fruitful discussion between speakers and participants. [BC]² is a conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

3rd Benelux Next-generation sequencing Users Meeting

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:55:00 +0200

This users meeting aims to bring together scientists from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg that are working with or are planning to start working with any of the next-generation sequencing platforms, to exchange experiences, identify complementary interests and common problems and to enhance interaction between individuals at all levels. The primary focus of this meeting is on user experiences and networking, rather than scientific breakthroughs. The symposium is free for anyone interested, although registration is required. Deadline for abstract submission and registration is June 14, 2010 For more information, a preliminary programme and registration form, please visit the website.

6th ISCB Student Council Symposium

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:54:00 +0100

The 6th ISCB Student Council Symposium will take place in Boston on July 9, just before ISMB 2010. The ISCB Student Council Symposium is a forum for students and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge. Meet your colleagues and chat about your science! Keynote speakers:

Dr. D. Altshuler, Broad Institute
Dr. G. Bader, University of Toronto
Dr. L. Hunter, University of Colorado

The agenda includes student presentations, poster session with presentation and poster awards and more surprises to come. Check out all updated information on the website: http://symposium.iscbsc.org There will be travel fellowships available to attend the symposium.

ISMB 2010: the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:15:00 +0100

ISMB 2010 will be held in Boston, Massachusettes, USA, July 11 - July 13, 2010. The conference will feature an exciting scientific program including scientific tracks, posters, demonstrations, and featuring ten internationally renowned keynote presenters. Key dates:

Call for Workshop Track submissions closes Friday, February 12, 2010
Call for Highlights Track submissions closes Friday, February 26, 2010
Call for Late Breaking Research Track submissions closes Friday, March 12, 2010
Call for Posters submissions closes Friday, March 19, 2010
Call for Technology Track submissions closes Friday, April 23, 2010
Call for Art and Science Exhibition submissions closes Friday, April 23, 2010

Details available here: http://www.iscb.org/ismb2010

BIOCOMP'10: International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:53:00 +0100

BIOCOMP is an important track of WORLDCOMP which is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. 2,000 or more attendees are anticipated from over 85 countries participating at the Congress.

The motivation behind WORLDCOMP is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. Both inward research (core areas of computer science & engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications such as those in computational biology, bioinformatics and impact on drug design) will be covered during the joint conferences. BIOCOMP/WORLDCOMP provides a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have "teaching" as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have "research" as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives. BIOCOMP 2010 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations.

Important dates:

March 1, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2010:Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2010:Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'10)

The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:39:00 +0100

BCBGC is an important annual event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. More details about the other conferences organised can be found here: http://www.promoteresearch.org/

Open Science Summit 2010

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:51:00 +0200

Should be of interest to CWA supporters: This summer (July 29-31, Berkeley, California), scientists, hackers, students, patients, and activists will convene to discuss the future of our science/technology paradigm at the Open Science Summit 2010. Topics include: Synthetic Biology, Gene Patents, Open Data, Open Access, Microfinance for Science, DIY science, DIY Biology, Alternative Funding for Science, Open Source Drugs, Patent Pools, Open Health/Medicine, Patient Advocacy for Innovation

NBIC/SIB Summer School: Quantitative imaging and modelling of biological processes

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:27:00 +0200

Imaging is a hot topic in Systems Biology! PhD students in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology: "Take your chance and participate in this Summer School, spiced with tutorials and exercises."

The Summer School focuses on "Quantitative imaging and modelling of biological processes". The topics that will be included: fundamentals of biomedical image processing and image annotation, image-based modelling and simulation, imaging of specific cellular compartments, cell motility, morphogenetic processes and small animals. For more information see the attached flyer, visit the website, or contact Celia van Gelder at NBIC Education (celia.van.gelder@nbic.nl). Please note that course participation is free of charge for NBIC and NBIC-matching PhDs, while other PhDs pay a small course fee. Furthermore, central (low-cost) accomodation in Amsterdam, has been arranged by NBIC for the participants.

Colloquium - Hybrid Computing for High-Throughput Bioinformatics

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:34:00 +0200

Colloquium subject
Discussed will be how Convey’s revolutionary hybrid-core computing architecture, the HC-1^TM, delivers dramatically increased throughput for genomics and proteomics applications, reducing time-to-completion in some projects from months to days. Convey is working with customers and partners, including instrument manufacturers, on many facets of bioinformatics, ranging from primary analysis to reference based and de novo assembly to downstream research. Furthermore, increased performance can provide fundamental improvements in research quality by allowing previously impractical approaches. The HC-1 integrates advanced architecture and compiler technology with off-the-shelf x86 and FPGA processors, helping life sciences customers accelerate application performance while reducing energy, floor space, and management costs. The highly integrated Convey approach provides users familiar C, C++ and FORTRAN development environments without the complexity of non-standard dialects or programming models. Location
Delft: Tuesday Augustus 24, 16.00-17.00; EWI Faculty, HB9.130
Nijmegen: Tuesday Augustus 24, 11.00-14.00; NCMLS Nijmegen George Vacek
George Vacek joined Convey Computer Corporation as the global head of the Life Sciences business in November 2009. Prior to joining Convey, he held responsibility for the success of Scientific Research solutions in Hewlett Packard's High-Performance Computing Division for three and a half years. Before that he was in charge of business development for three years at OpenEye Scientific Software. He has held business and technical roles in the computational life sciences, yielding 30 research publications and contributions to several quantum chemistry programs, including Schrödinger's Jaguar. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the place University of Georgia in 1995. He also holds an M.B.A. from Portland State University and Bachelor's degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.

Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis (CSCDA2010)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:45:00 +0100

The first edition of the Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis focuses on epistasis and integration of -omics data sets in the post-genomic era. This mini-conference will exist of two parts:

tutorial sessions in the afternoon of day 1 (25 August 2010)
keynote speaker sessions, with discussion afternoons, on days 2-3 (26-27 August 2010)

The targeted audience has a background in life sciences, biomedical sciences, statistics, bioinformatics, statistical genetics or medicine. The abstract submission deadline is 12 April 2010.

ESF Next Generation Sequencing Meeting

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:37:00 +0200

Next generation sequencing technologies enable de novo and re-sequencing of DNA, transcriptome sequencing, tag-based sequencing, and metagenomics sequencing. Recent results show applications emerging in evolution, environmental, forensics and archeology. While the second-generation technologies are being further improved, third-generation sequencing is already becoming available and utilized by pioneer researchers. The meeting aims at bringing together experts in the field to present their technological and scientific advances. Invited speakers and talks selected from abstracts will feature in sessions on evolution, transcription, personalized genomes, diagnostics, bioinformatics, and new sequencing technologies. The meeting starts with hands-on computer practicals including 1000 Genome Browser and a pipeline from reads to report files. Young researchers are invited to join a special program. Keynote speakers:
Chris Tyler-Smith, Mike Wilson, Eske Willerslev, Matthias Harbers, Barbara Wold, Edwin Cuppen, Sacha van Hijum, Joris Veltman, Debbie Nickerson, Ewan Birney, Guy Cochrane, Ivo Gut, Ruiqiang Li, Jeantine Lunshof and Evan Eichler. The registration deadline of August 24 is fast approaching!
For more information, registration and abstract submission, please visit the website mentioned below.

2nd International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (BIOKDD'10)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:47:00 +0200

With the development of Molecular Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth of both the volume and the complexity of biological data. 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 many efforts on the accumulation of data, we have now to focus as much effort, and even more, on the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of data is a challenging task because, not only, of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to use computer tools and develop new in silico high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns of biological sequences and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) are a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD'10 workshop include, but not limited to:

Data Preprocessing: Data Storage, Representation and Management, Data Cleaning, Feature Extraction, Feature Selection.
Data Mining: Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering, Biological Data Classification, Biological Data Regression, Association Rule Learning from Biological Data, Parallel/Cloud/Grid Computing for Biological Data Mining, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Analysis of Biological Networks.
Data Postprocessing: Knowledge Filtering, Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Knowledge Combination and Integration, Error Rates and Numerical Indicators.

GMOD Europe 2010

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:22:00 +0200

Event information
The four days of GMOD events will be held 13-16 September 2010, at the University of Cambridge. GMOD Europe 2010 includes: 1) GMOD Community Meeting, Monday & Tuesday: Project updates, developer and user presentations and best practices, project direction.
2) GMOD Satellite Meetings, Wednesday: Special interest groups where GMOD community members meet to discuss specific topics of interest.
3) InterMine Workshop, Wednesday: A one day workshop on installing, configuring and using the InterMine biological data warehouse system.
4) BioMart Workshop, Thursday: A one day workshop on using the BioMart biological data warehouse system, including accessing data through APIs. Registration
Registration is now open for these events. There is a £50 registration fee for the GMOD Meeting to cover catered lunches and other expenses. Registration for all other events is free, but required, as space is limited. These events are open to all: GMOD users, developers, prospective users, biologists, and computer scientists. See http://gmod.org/wiki/January_2010_GMOD_Meeting for an idea of what goes on at GMOD meetings. About GMOD
GMOD is a collection of interoperable open source software components for managing, visualizing and annotating biological data. GMOD incorporates many widely used tools, including GBrowse and JBrowse for genome browsing, InterMine and BioMart for data mining, Galaxy and Ergatis for workflow, Chado for data management, GBrowse_syn and CMap for comparative genomics, plus many other tools (Apollo, MAKER, Pathway Tools, Textpresso, ...). GMOD is also an active community of researchers and developers addressing common challenges in exploiting their data. If you are struggling to fully exploit your data then please consider attending GMOD Europe 2010.

7th annual RNAi & miRNA Europe

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:58:00 +0200

The annual RNAi & miRNA Europe is Europe's largest conference and exhibition dedicated to RNA interference. The conference will be co-located with Advances in qPCR, Epigenetics Europe and Genomics Automation Europe. Registered delegates will have access to all four meetings.

Agenda Topics:

Target Discovery and Validation
Transfection
siRNA Therapeutics
in vivo RNAi
Bioinformatics of small RNAs
siRNA library screens
microRNAs in: Disease Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Diagnostics, Virology, Biogenesis, Development

Python workshop in Karpacz

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200

A 3-day Python workshop is organized by the Polish and German RSGs in Karpacz (located in the Carpathian Mountains in Western Poland). For more information on the contents of the course, please visit: http://pythonfriends.blogspot.com/

Mutations in proteins: structure, function, dynamics and disease

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:42:00 +0200

The Netherlands Society on Biomolecular Modelling (NSBM) is happy to announce its second one-day conference on protein structure and modelling related topics. Location
UMC St Radboud
NCMLS Building, Colloquium Room
8th Floor, Route 289
Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28
6525 GA Nijmegen
The Netherlands Programme
10:00 Reception / registration / coffee 10:20    Welcome by G. Nicolaes, University of Maastricht, presentation of NSBM 10:25    G. Vriend opening of the morning session 10:30    Mahesh Kulharia, Cardiovascular research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht
University
         “In silico simulation of the membrane binding process of coagulation factor
VIII: prediction of the phenotype in haemophilia A patients, and ramifications
for anticoagulant drug design” 11:30    Frederic Rousseau, VIB Switch Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels,
Belgium.
         “The evolutionary relationship between protein structure and aggregation and
its consequences for disease” 12:30    Lunch and Poster sessions 14:30    Selected abstract by PhD student 14:50    Selected abstract by PhD student 15:10 Hanka Venselaar, CMBI, UMC St. Radboud
"Predicting the phenotypic effect of disease causing mutations" 16:10 Tea 16:30 Henk-Jan Joosten, Wageningen University & Research Centre.
"Predicting mutations that cause a desired phenotypic effect" 17:10    Closing remarks, poster prize award 17:20    Drinks Registration and abstract submission details To register for the meeting, please fill out the registration form. The capacity at the conference venue to put up posters is limited. If too many abstracts are handed in, priority will be given to PhD students and master students who want to present a poster that deals with the conference topic. Poster abstracts should be 1-page A4 in PDF format, not exceeding 5 Mb in size. Poster abstracts should be sent before September 6 to Gerry Nicolaes, g.nicolaes@bioch.unimaas.nl (tel +31(0)43 3881688). Two master or PhD student poster presenters will be invited to discuss their poster in a 15 minute seminar. A poster prize will be awarded to the best poster presented at the conference. Please indicate with the submitted poster abstract if you are a master student or PhD student, and wether you are interested in presenting a short seminar. The abstracts will be published on the NBIC website.

(PRIB-10) 5th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:05:00 +0100

The Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics conference aims to bring together top researchers, practitioners and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to tackle problems in the life sciences. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the research areas of interest to the conference. These include:

Bio-sequence analysis
Gene and protein expression analysis
Protein structure and interaction prediction
Motifs and signal detection
Metabolic modelling and analysis
Systems and synthetic biology
Pathway and network analysis
Immuno- and chemo-informatics
Evolution and phylogeny
Biological databases, integration and visualisation
Bio-imaging

Pattern recognition techniques of interest include, but not limited to:

Static, syntactic and structural pattern recognition
Data mining, Data based modelling
Neural networks, Fuzzy systems
Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence
Hidden Markov models, Graphical models

Like the previous editions, accepted papers will be published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Enhanced versions of selected special session papers will be included in a special issue of Neurocomputing Journal (Elsevier). Important dates:
Paper Submission: ~~5 June 2010~~ 1 August 2010
Special Sessions Proposal: 2 March 2010
Tutorials Proposal: 2 April 2010
Author Notification: 2 June 2009
Camera Ready Papers: 2 July 2009
Early Bird Registration: 15 July 2009 NBIC is sponsoring this conference.

“BBMRI – Biobanking for Science”

Tue, 25 May 2010 19:04:00 +0200

On September 23-25, 2010, the BBMRI consortium will organise the "BBMRI – Biobanking for Science" conference focusing on scientific excellence in the various aspects of biobanking at the Novotel Amsterdam City, Amsterdam, NL.

Scientific seminar by George M. Church

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:25:00 +0200

On September 23, George M. Church (Professor at Harvard University, Boston) will be speaking about "How Personal Genomics and Synthetic Biology will influence healthcare". This scientific seminar is organised by Science4you in Rotterdam. On September 24 George Church will be awarded with the International Steven Hoogendijk Award in the 'Burgerzaal' of the City hall of Rotterdam. You can register for these events by sending an e-mail to m.miedema@erasmusmc.nl. Please mention the date of the event you will be visiting in the e-mail. More information can be found in de flyer attached.

ECCB10 - European Conference on Computational Biology

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:50:00 +0100

ECCB10 is the key European computational biology event in 2010 uniting scientists working in a broad range of disciplines, including bioinformatics, computational biology, biology, medicine, and systems biology. As part of the ECCB conference series, it will be organized this year jointly by the Belgian and Dutch bioinformatics communities. Leading bioinformatics researchers, computational biologists, and bio-IT professionals from Europe and around the world gather annually at the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) for four days of presentations, poster sessions, workshops, software demonstrations, and most impotantly - networking. ECCB is the leading European meeting and a primary international conference at which people report on and discuss advances in this rapidly-expanding field. Ghent is one of Europe's most exciting medieval towns, a glorious eclectic city with spectacular buildings and a vivid cultural experience (National Geographic Traveler ranked it 3rd best historic place to visit internationally in 2008). Ghent is directly accessible by train from Brussels airport. The conference venue is highly convenient and located in a beautiful park within the city center. Invited Speakers:

Peer Bork (EMBL-Heidelberg)
Elaine Mardis (Washington University)
Michael Sternberg (Imperial College London)
Hans Westerhoff (University of Manchester, Free University of Amsterdam)
Yves Van der Peer (University of Ghent)

Key dates:

Paper submission deadline - April 9, 2010
Industry and demo track submission deadline - July 2, 2010
Poster submission deadline - June 20, 2010
Early registration deadline - August 20, 2010

For more information visit the conference website:http://www.eccb2010.org/ NBIC is Gold sponsor of the ECCB10 and will be present with an exhibition booth at the conference.

First European Student Council Symposium (ESCS1)

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Event description
We are presenting here the first European Student Council Symposium in association with ECCB 2010. It will be organized as a full parallel track during the first day of the conference, which is filled with parallel workshop and tutorial tracks. The meeting is planned for Sunday September 26, 2010. The full day programme runs from 9 am to 5 pm. At 5:30 pm the first plenary lecture of the main ECCB10 conference starts. We expect an attendance of 40 to 75 students for ESCS1, with approx. 20 to 30 submitted abstracts. Preliminary programme
09:00‐09:30 ICE BREAKER: presentations
09:30‐10:30 KEYNOTE: Yves Van de Peer, VIB and University of Ghent, Belgium
10:30‐11:00 Coffee break
11:00‐12:30 STUDENTS: presentations based on abstract submission
12:30‐13:30 Lunch
13:30‐15:00 SOFT SKILLS WORKSHOP by Gijs Meeusen
15:00‐15:30    Coffee break
15:30‐17:00    SOFT SKILLS WORKSHOP continues
17:00-17:25    POSTERS: test your new presentation skills! Registration
You can register to the student symposium even if you do not attend ECCB. It only costs 100 euros, but will be 150 euros after the early registration deadline - Aug 20, 2010 (http://escs.iscbsc.org/registration) Poster submission
The Student Symposium accepts late poster submissions till August 16, with notification on August 18. We actively encourage you to submit work you are presenting at ECCB to the Student Symposium as well. (http://escs.iscbsc.org/abstract-submission)

Organization
This event is organized in conjunction with the European Conference on Computational
Biology (ECCB). Even though this project is filed by RSG‐Europe, the organization of this project is jointly done by all European RSGs. Initial planning for this event involved people from RSG‐Netherlands, RSG-France, RSG-Germany and RSG-Europe.

VPH 2010

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:39:00 +0200

The first of a series of international VPH Conferences (VPH2010) will be organised by the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence - VPH NoE in Brussels on 30th September to 1st October, 2010. This first meeting will be held in Brussels, Belgium, and is supported by the European Commission ICT for Health / DG Information Society and Media.

The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of ~ 350 million Euros for the Framework 7 Program. The conference series is designed to be a key resource for the VPH NoE to produce a ‘VPH Vision and Strategy Document’ to inform the next European Commission calls for the VPH field for FP7, FP8 and for European large infrastructural actions. The meeting on 30th September – 1st October will be dedicated to the VPH Initiative, bringing together key representatives from VPH groups, Industry and Clinics. The first meeting is designed to be a relatively small meeting up to a maximum of 200 participants with high profile key speakers and will contain the very best of VPH research. Parallel sessions will be held on both days with proposed topics in five main themes: Organ Systems, Modelling Scales, Research Methodology, Application Domains and Data Access and Information Assurance. More information about the meeting can be found on the website mentioned below.

WTNC 2010

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:13:00 +0200

Natural Computing is a research area concerned with computing taking place in nature and with human-designed computing inspired by nature. It is a fast growing, genuinely interdisciplinary field involving, among others computer science, biology, and mathematics. The aim of the International Workshop and Tutorials on Natural Computing (WTNC 2010) is to provide a high-level scientific forum for the researchers in various areas of Natural Computing as well as to provide a cooperation forum for the Natural Computing and on Graph Transformations research communities. This is the 4th event in this series of meetings, with previous editions held in Barcelona, Spain (with ICGT 2002), Rome, Italy (with ICGT 2004), and Leicester, UK (with ICGT 2008). The WTNC 2010 is a satellite event to the International Conference on Graph Transformations (ICGT 2010). For more information about the workshop and about registration and abstract submission, please visit the website mentioned below.

4th International Workshop and Tutorials on Natural Computing (WTNC 2010)

Fri, 28 May 2010 12:58:00 +0200

Natural Computing is a research area concerned with computing taking place in nature and with human-designed computing inspired by nature. It is a fast growing, genuinely interdisciplinary field involving, among others computer science, biology, and mathematics. The aim of the International Workshop and Tutorials on Natural Computing WTNC 2010 is to provide a high-level scientific forum for the researchers in various areas of Natural Computing as well as to provide a cooperation forum for the Natural Computing and on Graph Transformations research communities. This is the 4th event in this series of meetings, with previous editions held in Barcelona, Spain (with ICGT 2002), Rome, Italy (with ICGT 2004), and Leicester, UK (with ICGT 2008). Invited speakers:

Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
Erik de Vink (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Sander Bohte (CWI, the Netherlands)

Important dates:

Submission: May 31, 2010
Notification: June 30, 2010
Final version: August 20, 2010
Workshop: October 2, 2010

The WTNC 2010 is organized in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Graph Transformations.

Workshop Modeling Angiogenesis: Joining Cells, Maths and Computers

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:15:00 +0200

The outgrowth of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels, called angiogenesis, is a crucial step in myriad physiological and pathological mechanisms. Unfortunately, the complicated causes and effects of angiogenesis make it very difficult to control. Computational models and simulations help unravel both the basic mechanisms of angiogenesis and can help identify the steps in the mechanisms most amenable to intervention.

A wide range of mathematical and computational models is currently available. Despite the biological insights these mathematical models have produced, modeling rarely finds application in experimental angiogenesis research yet. Why is that?

This workshop organized by the Lorentz Center will host both experimental researchers and computational models working in vascular biology, endothelial cell biology, angiogenesis, and pharmaceutics. The aim of the workshop is to:

identify the requirements for computational models to make a true impact in basic angiogenesis research, tissue engineering and drug innovation,
inventarize pre-existing and missing components of such a model, and
discuss how we can couple such components.

For more information and registration visit the website mentioned below.

The 11th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2010)

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Systems biology crosses the borders and gathers the strength of traditionally separated disciplines such as biology medicine, mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics and chemistry. The ultimate goal of systems biology is to provide knowledge, tools, and systems that have a major impact on biomedical research, the diagnosis and treatment of human disease, and the development of new biotechnological and bioengineering applications. The International Conference on Systems Biology is the premiere annual meeting for anyone interested in pursuing this goal. The Scientific Programme has been designed to bring together a broad spectrum of professionals involved in disciplines such as biology medicine, mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics and chemistry. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website: http://www.icsb2010.org.uk/

NBIC BioRange Project Meeting 2010

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:03:00 +0200

On 11 October 2010 NBIC organises the second NBIC BioRange Project Meeting. This is a closed meeting for researchers that participate in the NBIC projects. This meeting aims at bringing together all the BioRange participants to exchange information on the current NBIC research projects. The meeting is obligatory for all researchers who participate in a BioRange project and who have a research position funded by NBIC. For more information and registration, please visit the website below.

Biocuration2010

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:30:00 +0200

About Biocuration2010
Biocuration2010 is the Conference of the International Society for Biocuration (ISB) and the 4th International Biocuration Conference. It is held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 11-14, 2010. This conference will provide a forum for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster a sense of community in this active and growing area of research. Topics will include:

Text Mining
Literature Curation
Ontologies
Genome Sequence Annotation
Comparative Genomics
Functional Genomics
Crop/Plant Genome Curation
Community Curation
Data Standardization and Integration
Curation Tools/Workflows
Data Visualization
Journal/Database Interactions and Collaborations
Next Generation Sequence Annotation
Next Generation Curation

Programme
The meeting program will include:

plenary speakers:
Dr. Minoru Kanehisa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Dr. Paul Thomas (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
Dr. Barend Mons (Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre)
sessions:
[S1] Large Scale, Automated, Predictive Annotations
[S2] Outreach to User Communities & Community Annotation
[S3] Biocuration in Metabolomics and Systems Biology
[S4] Asian Models of Biocuration-Related Activities
[S5] Data Integration Platforms and Data Sharing
[S6] Future Directions and Challenges for Biocuration
workshops:
[W1] Curation of Protein Structure and Chemicals
[W2] Curation Interface and Software
[W3] Crop/Plant Genome Curation
[W4] New Approaches Towards Database Integration

The full meeting program can be found here: http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/program.html
The meeting schedule can be found here: http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/meeting_schedule.html Registration
Follow this link to register: http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/registration.html
For questions or technical difficulties with the registration, please contact the secretariat at Biocuration2010@ics-inc.co.jp Abstract submission
The abstract submission deadline is now extended to August 31, 2010. For more information see http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/abstract.html. Important dates
Event date: October 11-14, 2010
Abstract submission ends: August 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: will be done by September 3, 2010
Early bird registration ends: September 6, 2010 Location
Tokyo International Exchange Center, Tokyo, Japan. Organizing Committee
http://hinv.jp/biocuration2010/committee.html

The Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MLSB 2010)

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:16:00 +0200

Objective The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the cross-fertilization between the research in machine learning methods and their applications to systems biology (i.e., complex biological and medical questions) by bringing together method developers and experimentalists. Encourage are submissions bringing forward methods for discovering complex structures (e.g. interaction networks, molecule structures) and methods supporting genome-wide data analysis. Motivation
Molecular biology and all the biomedical sciences are undergoing a true revolution as a result of the emergence and growing impact of a series of new disciplines/tools sharing the "-omics" suffix in their name. These include in particular genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, devoted respectively to the examination of the entire systems of genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites present in a given cell or tissue type.

The availability of these new, highly effective tools for biological exploration is dramatically changing the way one performs research in at least two respects. First, the amount of available experimental data is not a limiting factor any more; on the contrary, there is a plethora of it. Given the research question, the challenge has shifted towards identifying the relevant pieces of information and making sense out of it (a "data mining" issue). Second, rather than focus on components in isolation, we can now try to understand how biological systems behave as a result of the integration and interaction between the individual components that one can now monitor simultaneously (so called "systems biology").

Taking advantage of this wealth of "genomic" information has become a conditio sine qua non for whoever ambitions to remain competitive in molecular biology and in the biomedical sciences in general. Machine learning naturally appears as one of the main drivers of progress in this context, where most of the targets of interest deal with complex structured objects: sequences, 2D and 3D structures or interaction networks. At the same time bioinformatics and systems biology have already induced significant new developments of general interest in machine learning, for example in the context of learning with structured data, graph inference, semi-supervised learning, system identification, and novel combinations of optimization and learning algorithms.

Molecular biology and all the biomedical sciences are undergoing a true revolution as a result of the emergence and growing impact of a series of new disciplines/tools sharing the “-omics” suffix in their name. These include in particular genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, devoted respectively to the examination of the entire systems of genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites present in a given cell or tissue type. This workshop is organized as "core - event" of Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning - Network of Excellence2 (PASCAL 2, http://www.pascal-network.org/). It will be part of the workshop program of ICSB 2010, The 11th International Conference on Systems Biology (11-14 OCT 2010, http://www.icsb2010.org.uk/). For more information, registration and abstract submission, please visit the website mentioned below.

2nd NCSB Symposium (NCSB 2010)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:07:00 +0100

The next annual NCSB symposium is scheduled for Thursday and Friday 2010 October 21-22. Please reserve these two days in your agenda. Venue and programme will be announced in due course via the NCSB website.

2nd Next Generation Sequencing Congress

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:35:00 +0200

Oxford Global Conferences present both the 2nd Annual Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)Congress, and the Analytical Genomics Congress which are to be held on the 15th & 16th November 2010 at the Radisson Edwardian, Heathrow in London. The congresses are to be held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual qPCR Congress.

Over the 2 days, the conferences will provides an overview of the current options of next-generation sequencing platforms, technologies, applications and the newest computational tools for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data and analytical genomics. An expert panel of 45 speakers will present a day full conference programme covering the following key topics including:

Next Generation Sequencing:

Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
Next Generation Sequencing Applications & Data Management

Analytical Genomics:

Genome Sequencing and Analysis
Next Generation Sequencing Systems and Techniques
Genomics Automation

For more information and registration please visit the websites mentioned below.

CWA Conference November 2010

Tue, 25 May 2010 20:24:00 +0200

The first CWA annual conference will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2010.

Connecting Biobanks

Thu, 27 May 2010 14:10:00 +0200

Large-scale cooperation between biobanks has been successful on a global scale in the past two years. Collaboration between biobanks is essential for the future of biomedical science. Biomedical and bioinformatics research groups in the Netherlands join forces with international partners in the conference “Connecting Biobanks” on November 22, 2010 in Amsterdam (continued in the morning of the 23rd in Utrecht for CWA participants). The conference programme includes:

Renowned international speakers on biobank-related topics. Confirmed: David Cox (Pfizer)
BBMRI-NL’s official kick-off
Dedicated workshops addressing specific topics, such as data interoperability
A poster market, presenting BBMRI-NL projects aimed at enrichment and harmonization
Formal inauguration of the Global Concept Web Alliance
Presentation and demonstration of CWA partners’developed technology and applications
Ample opportunity to interact with colleagues

This conference is also the first edition of the annual CWA conference (which continues with a parallel session at Life Science Momentum on the 23rd in Utrecht). Please visit the conference website for more information and registration. “Connecting Biobanks” is a joined effort of BBMRI-NL, CWA and NBIC. BBMRI-NL is the Dutch national biobanking initiative, linking over 140 existing Dutch biobanks in order to harmonize and enrich them and to cooperate on issues concerning data management and analysis as well as on ethical, legal and societal aspects. Within the 'hub and spoke' structure of the European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure, BBMRI-NL is the Dutch national 'hub'. www.bbmri.nl CWA The Concept Web Alliance is a global collaborative community addressing the increasing problems associated with information overload and the interoperability of data. This international effort seeks to organize the massive amounts of information flooding the biological sciences and other scientific disciplines. Challenges include storage, interoperability and analysis of such massive and disparate data sets. CWA aims to be an ‘organization of collaborating organizations’. Many of its partners are already actively involved in biobanking connectivity projects utilizing knowledge and tools mutually developed and applied. NBIC The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre is a collaborative institute of the bioinformatics groups in the Netherlands. Together, these groups perform cutting-edge research, develop novel tools and support platforms, create an e-science infrastructure and educate the next generations of bioinformaticians. NBIC is one of the initiators and founding sponsors of CWA.

IEEE eScience Workshop on High-‐Performance Computing in the Life Sciences

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0200

Call for Papers:
There are a variety of parallel and distributed high-performance computing platforms, including multicore architectures, GPGPUs/GPUs, clusters, grids, and clouds, that together with new programming paradigms such as MapReduce and Many Task Computing offer a wide range of possibilities for solving compute- and data-intensive problems in an efficient manner. The purpose of this workshop is to provide the opportunity for participants to discuss and share the latest research in parallel and distributed high performance computing systems applied to problems in the Life Sciences, i.e. all fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, such as biology, biochemistry, biophysics, food science, medicine, medical imaging, neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology and systems biology.

Location:
Brisbane, Australia from 7th – 10th December 2010

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
* Multicore/manycore architectures in life science applications
* GPU support for life science applications
* Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing in the life sciences
* Security of high-performance computing environments for the life sciences
* Privacy in high-performance computing environments for the life sciences
* Parallelization of compute- or data-intensive tasks in the life sciences
* Data handling, integration and visualization in the life sciences
* Distributed infrastructures for life science applications
* Programming paradigms for high-performance computing in the life sciences
* Tools and programming environments supporting high-performance computing in the life sciences
* Scheduling in high-performance computing environments for life science applications
* Workflow management and remote collaboration in the life sciences
* System level support for high-performance computing in the life sciences
* Fault-tolerance of distributed life science applications
* Scalability of infrastructures and applications in life science applications

Organizers:
Matthew Smith Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Bernd Freisleben University of Marburg, Germany
Thomas Friese Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany

Programme Committee:
Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany
Thomas Friese, Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
Antoine van Kampen, University of Amsterdam
Dagmar Krefting, Charité Berlin
Susanne Mertins, University of Essen
Yassene Mohamed, University of Amsterdam
Silvia Olabarriaga, University of Amsterdam
Otto Rienhof, University of Göttingen
Ulrich Sax, University of Göttingen
Daniela Skrowny, University of Göttingen
Matthew Smith, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Important Dates:
Papers Submission Due: 15th of September 2010
Author Notifications: 7th of October 2010
Final manuscripts: 14th of October 2010
Presentation: 7th of December 2010

More information

TBI 2011: The Joint Summits on Translational Science (TBI & CRI)

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:45:00 +0200

AMIA is organising the 2011 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (TBI). The TBI Summit will be part of the Joint Summits on Translational Science. Immediately following the TBI Summit, the Summit on Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) will take place at the same venue (March 9th-11th, 2011).

As in previous years, the Summit on Translational Bioinformatics will aim to highlight the trans-disciplinary nature of this now-burgeoning research field and provide a unique opportunity to bring together the finest minds in translational bioinformatics from the academia, industry, government and non-profit sectors. For more information about the summit and for registration and paper submission, please visit the conference website.