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After last year's success the Blast2GO Team is again very pleased to announce this workshop. It will be offered to 35 participants at 2 locations:
DATES: October 20-22, 2010
LOCALE: Valencia, Spain
DATES: November 16-18, 2010
LOCALE: Florida, USA
The course will provide know-how and bioinformatics resources to assigning rich functional labels to high-dimensional sequence datasets and to extract new knowledge from annotation data. In this course you will learn tools and tips for functional annotation, visualization and analysis of novel sequence data making use of Blast2GO.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For more information and registration until the 15th of September please visit: http://bioinfo.cipf.es/blast2gocourse
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Announcing CAFA: Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotations
URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org
Genome sequencing and structural genomics projects have generated a wealth of data. However, extracting meaningful information from genomic data is becoming increasingly difficult. Both the number and the diversity of discovered genes is increasing. This increase means that established annotation methods, such as homology transfer, are annotating less data. In addition, there is a need for annotation which is standardized so that it could be incorporated into function annotation on a large scale. Finally, there is a need to assess the quality of the function prediction software. We probably know the sequence of the target for next generation antibiotics or cancer treatment. We just did not recognize that target for what it is: it is currently annotated as a "domain of unknown function".
The mission of the Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG) is to bring together computational biologists who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product function prediction, to share ideas and create collaborations.
About the CAFA experiment
The problem: There are far too many proteins in the database for which the sequence is known, but the function is not. The gap between what we know and what we do not know is growing. A major challenge in the field of bioinformatics is to predict the function of a protein from its sequence or structure. At the same time, how can we judge how well these function prediction algorithms are preforming?
The solution: The Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation algorithms (CAFA) is an experiment designed to provide a large-scale assessment of computational methods dedicated to predicting protein function. We will evaluate methods in predicting the Gene Ontology (GO) terms in the categories of Molecular Function and Biological Process. A set of protein sequences is provided by the organizers. Participants are expected to submit their predictions by the submission deadline. The predictions will be evaluated during the Automated Function Prediction (AFP) meeting, which has been approved as a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting, at ISMB 2011 conference (Vienna, Austria).
How to participate in CAFA?
1. Register for the experiment at http://biofunctionprediction.org
2. (Recommended) Subscribe to the low-traffic announcement list [link]
3. Download target proteins, available September 15, 2010
4. Submit predictions before January 15, 2011
5. Join us at the AFP-SIG at Vienna July 15-16, 2011 for the fifth protein function prediction meeting to hear the CAFA results, and about the latest research in computational protein function prediction
More details at: http://biofunctionprediction.org
Looking forward to hearing from you!
The CAFA organizing Team: Predrag Radivojac, Michal Linial and Iddo Friedberg
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We are pleased to announce MetaPred, a webserver which allows users to predict whether their drug molecule will be metabolize or not. It also predicts the cytochrome P450 isoform responsible for metabolizing a drug molecule. This is the first free online server for predicting drug metabolism. It has been published in BMC Pharmacology 2010, 10:8 ([link])
AVAILABILITY:
http://crdd.osdd.net/raghava/metapred/
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DATES: November 29 - December 1, 2010
LOCALE: Naples, Italy
URL: http://www.nettab.org/2010/
Call for oral communications, posters, and software demos. All accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.
TOPICS:
Wiki development tools: Authoritativeness of contributions and sites, quality assessment, user acknowledgment, authorship management and reward, 'scientific production' value for contributions, management of bioinformatics data types
Wikis and collaborative systems for: genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics, protein analysis and visualization, gene and protein interactions, metabolic pathways, oncology research
Special issues for: genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics, protein analysis and visualization, gene and protein interactions, metabolic pathways, oncology research
IMPORTANT DATES:
Oral communications submission deadline: September 24, 2010
Posters submission deadline: October 17, 2010
Early registration ends: October 29, 2010
Workshop and tutorials: November 29 - December 1, 2010
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For any further information or clarification, please contact the organization by email at info@nettab.org.
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On July 10, in Boston, the External Research division of Microsoft Research introduced the Microsoft Biology Initiative, resources designed to help biological scientists and programmers conduct research more efficiently and affordably. These include the first post-beta release of the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF), a language-neutral bioinformatics tool kit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework.
In addition to a new genome assembler, performance enhancements, and other improvements, MBF builds upon the vision and goals that drove the development of the beta versions. Those included a commitment to community involvement, extensibility, cross-platform and interoperable functionality, language neutrality, and support for best practices.
While there are other libraries of biological functionality available, MBF supports universally accepted standards of the bioinformatics community and implements a range of unique functionality derived from original Microsoft research. The code for MBF and supporting documents is available on CodePlex[RK1] .
FULL STORY:
For the full story check out the External Research Blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/
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This website seeks to apply multidimensional approaches to solve statistical and combinatorial problems in biosciences. It provides important information and links in the fields of genome analysis, genetics, protein sequence analysis and genetic epidemiology. The website provides links to all the major software used in the analysis of biological information. It also provides detailed information on all the Government/Semi government Institutes as well as private companies dealing with bioinformational analysis and training. Detailed tutorials on selected topics have also been provided.
Link: http://www.a2zbioinformatics.com
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At the University of Manchester, UK, we have over 10 years experience in teaching a range of online courses in computational biology. These courses are designed to enable those with a background in the life sciences, computer science, mathematics or related disciplines to update their skills, while remaining in the workplace. The courses are also very suitable for home study, helping you to keep in touch with a research environment while taking a career break.
The modules running next semester, from October 2010, include :
Introduction to software development in Java
Bioinformatics for Systems Biology
Introduction to Health Informatics
Biocomputing
Computational Systems Biology
These modules can be studied individually, or you can choose to register for a formal qualification. Those wishing to progress to the MSc will complete a supported research project. Examples of projects that have been published in a range of journals are listed here : [link]
For further information, please visit our programme website :
[link]
If you have any questions, or would like advice on the options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk
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About the book:
This book serves as a comprehensive text for undergraduates and postgraduate students and is also a useful reference for research scientists working in areas of proteomics, genomics, biotechnology, microarrays, molecular biology and software engineering with a focus on bioinformatics application development. Written in a simple style, this text is written to easily understand important concepts in bioinformatics, molecular modelling, drug design and microarray technology.
The book is useful for biologists to appreciate the potential of bioinformatics and also to gain insights on the use of biological databases, tools and bioinformatics resources. It is also useful for software engineers to understand the scope of programming in biotechnology. It is the first book on bioinformatics with emphasis on microarray technology, a section which covers basic concepts, advanced techniques in fabrication of arrays, potential applications and markets for microarrays.
For more details about the book visit the website:
http://bioinformaticsmicroarray.page.tl
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DATES: Sept. 13-15, 2010
LOCALE: Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA
URL: [link]
Join the National Cancer Institute for its 2010 caBIG® Annual Meeting – Building a Collaborative Biomedical Network – to:
- Learn about the critical importance of biomedical informatics and information technology in facilitating multidisciplinary collaboration across institutional barriers and advancing biomedical research
- Discover caBIG® capabilities that can support your work and share lessons learned with others who have developed and applied caBIG® technology to advance basic and clinical research
- Engage in unparalleled opportunities for networking and information exchange with leaders in biomedical informatics
- Investigate innovative tools and explore the caBIG® services-oriented architecture during hands-on sessions and demonstrations
REGISTRATION:
This meeting is free to attend and open to the public.
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Organizing on-site conferences requires substantial expense including the costs of the venue, labour, and accommodations for speakers invited from other countries. Scientific institutions in developing nations can find these costs prohibitive, thus limiting the number of conferences that they can afford to host.
We at Bioinformatics.Org, in collaboration with Bioclues.org, a partner of Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet.org), recently organized a virtual conference on bioinformatics in India (Inbix'10) featuring an impressive collection of distinguished speakers. Although the bandwidth and network stability in India is modest relative to that of Western nations, the advantages of lower cost and effort outweighed these technical difficulties, and the virtual conference was considered a success by the organizers and participants.
A meeting report of this conference has been recently published in India's journal Current Science, a publication of the Indian Academy of Science. The report is available at [link]
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