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DATES: April 12-13, 2012
LOCALE: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
URL: http://compbio.ufl.edu/symposium/
The UF Computational Biology Initiative is pleased to announce "Genome Sequencing and Annotation", a two-day symposium focusing on the computational and analytical challenges involved in the sequencing and annotation of genomes, and on their impact on biological and biomedical research.
SPEAKERS:
John Quackenbush, Harvard School of Public Health (keynote)
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University
Steven Jones, University of British Columbia
Matias Kirst, University of Florida
Ian Korf, UC Davis Genome Center
Eric Lyons, University of Arizona
Leonid Moroz, University of Florida
See the website for more information on the symposium and to
register for it. Note that registration is required, but attendance is free.
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DATES: IVBI 2012: July 11, 2012 (IV 2012: July 10-13, 2012)
LOCALE: Montpellier, France
URL: [link] (IV 2012: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2012/)
Organized as part of the 2012 International Information Visualisation Conference, the 4th International Symposium on Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original papers in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical and biomolecular data and processes. The symposium covers all aspects of visualization and issues affecting interaction with large and complex data sets. We encourage the submission of papers covering new techniques, old techniques applied in novel ways, new methods, interesting applications and in-depth surveys.
Peer-reviewed papers will be published in conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines.
Submission procedures: [link]
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers through online submission system: March 15, 2012
Submission of camera-ready (accepted submissions) and early registration: May 5, 2012
Symposium: July 11, 2012
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DATES: August 28-31, 2012
LOCALE: Taormina, Sicily, Italy
URL: [link]
ICARIS 2012 aims to build on the success of previous years to provide a forum for AIS researchers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest advances. In addition to peer-reviewed papers, ICARIS 2012 will present a range of plenary lectures and tutorials to inspire and facilitate both the computer scientists and immunologists in their work.
*NEW* there are now two different tracks with two different submission kinds and registrations (first track - second track - both):
28 and 29 August 2012: Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics
This track aims is to attract researchers from computer science, information science, engineering, biomathematics, biomedicine, bioinformatics, systems biology, and immunology to share and exchange their knowledge of state-of-the-art research issues, methodologies, ideas, and challenges.
In this track, authors are requested to submit an abstract following the instructions on ICARIS 2012 website: [link]
30 and 31 August 2012: Immunological Computation, Immune-inspired Engineering, Immune-inspired Heuristics
This track is for papers describing applications to computational and engineering problems, and theoretical aspects (e.g. mathematical modeling of algorithms, convergence analysis, empirical investigation into algorithm performance and complexity analysis) of AIS. For the first class, the problem domain should be clearly explained, detailing why it is challenging and why AIS are a suitable methodology to use. Experiments should be carefully explained, with the expectation that appropriate statistical analysis of results will be used to help draw conclusions. Where possible, the approach taken should be compared with alternative strategies. In order to appeal to the widest audience, theoretical papers must ensure that mathematical arguments and backgrounds are clearly presented, and the paper should also discuss the practical implications of any theoretical results.
In this track authors may submit their manuscripts in two different ways:
Abstract paper: Authors must follow the instructions described on ICARIS 2012 website: [link]
Regular paper: Authors are requested to submit a PDF file at the link [link] following the formatting instructions at the Springer-Verlag LNCS site.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: 1st March 2012
Author notification: 15th May 2012
Paper final version: 15th June 2012
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact: icaris2012[at]dmi.unict.it
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DATES: October 7-10, 2012
LOCALE: Embassy Suites, Downtown Orlando, FL
URL: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2012
Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials and Workshops
ACM BCB is the main flagship conference of the ACM SIG Bioinformatics. The conference will provide a premier forum for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. The last two decades have led to a tremendous growth in the size and dimensionality of biological and biomedical data. This conference serves to provide information on leading edge in research in processing, modeling and analyzing these datasets for a variety of applications. We invite contributed papers, posters, workshops and tutorials. We also invite contributed presentations for papers that have been published in a journal after January 1, 2012. Only one page abstracts for these papers will appear in the proceedings. Please refer to the conference website for more details.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop proposals: Feb. 14, 2012
Paper Submission: May 14, 2012
Poster Submission: June 16, 2012
Notification to Authors: July 16, 2012
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DATES: June 11-14, 2012
LOCALE: Stockholm, Sweden
URL: http://socbin.org/bioinfo2012/
The Society for Bioinformatics in Northern Europe in collaboration with Center for Biomembrane Research and Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, welcomes you to the 12th annual conference in bioinformatics. This year the conference will be held in beautiful Stockholm starting at lunch-time June 11 and ending at lunch on June 14. It will be located in the Scheele laboratory on the Karolinska Institutet campus, close to Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm. We are looking forward to an exciting scientific program with 4 invited keynote speakers and 5 sessions (Molecular Machines, Using next generation sequence data, Data analysis of proteomics assays, Bioinformatics of chemical biology and RNA bioinformatics).
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DATES: October 4-7, 2012
LOCALE: Philadelphia, PA, USA
URL: [link]
The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) has established itself as the premier research conference in bioinformatics and biomedicine. IEEE BIBM 2012 provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in bioinformatics and health informatics. It brings together academic and industrial scientists from computer science, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics.
We solicit high-quality original research papers (including significant work-in progress) in any aspect of bioinformatics and biomedicine.
Online Submission:
[link]
IMPORTANT DATES:
Electronic submission of full papers: May 10, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: July 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 15, 2012
Conference: October 4-7, 2012
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An article by Denise Grady:
"The scientists who altered a deadly flu virus to make it more contagious have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to give other researchers around the world time to discuss the work and determine the best way to proceed.
"A letter explaining the decision ([link]) is being published in two scientific journals, Science and Nature, which also plan to publish reports on the research, but in a redacted form omitting details that would let other researchers copy the experiments. The letter is signed by the scientists who produced the new, more contagious form of the flu virus, as well as by other leading flu researchers."
FULL STORY:
[link]
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DATES: Next start date: March 2012
LOCALE: Online at The University of Manchester, UK
URL: [link]
This online course from The University of Manchester, UK, covers microarray data analysis in depth, and also introduces the areas where new work is needed for next generation sequence (RNA-seq) analysis.
Course details:
Week 1: Introduction and software setup
Weeks 2 and 3: Microarrays and experimental design
Weeks 4 and 5: Data capture and preliminary checks
Weeks 6 and 7: Data analysis
Weeks 8 and 9: Other methods for transcriptome analysis
Weeks 10 and 11: Independent research and work on the first assessment
Weeks 12 and 13: Gene Class Tests
Weeks 14 to 16: Independent research and work on the second assessment
This is just one of our Masters-level courses in Digital Biology. You will find information on all our courses, including fees and a link to the enquiry form, here: [link]
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you need further information, or would like to book a place on a course, please contact our office for Advanced Professional Education (ape[at]cs.man.ac.uk).
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"Proteins and their variants: structure and function prediction"
DATES: February 13-17, 2012
LOCALE: Bologna, Italy
URL: http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/~school2012/
As a result of large sequencing projects, data banks of protein sequences and structures are growing rapidly. The number of sequences is however orders of magnitude larger than the number of structures known at the atomic level, and this is so in spite of efforts in accelerating processes to determine the resolution of protein structure.
Tools have been developed in order to bridge the gap between sequence and protein 3D structure, based on the notion that information is to be retrieved from the data bases and that knowledge-based methods can help in approaching a solution of the protein folding problem. By this, several features can be predicted starting from a protein sequence, such as structural and functional motifs and domains, including the topological organization of a protein inside the membrane phase, and the formation of disulfide bonds in a folded protein structure.
Different computational methods, mainly based on machine learning, e.g. neural networks (NNs), hidden markov models (HMMs), support vector machines (SVMs), which are capable of computing the likelihood of a given feature starting from the protein sequence, can be used to endow protein sequences with structural features. The process of large scale proteome annotation (endowing sequences with functional and structural features) will be debated by focusing also on how to describe protein function with Gene Ontologies and predicting them from the protein sequence.
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"As I discussed in a recent post, quite a bit of scientific research these days is federally funded. If your funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), you are required to make your work publicly available by depositing it in PubMed Central, a database of full-text scientific articles. The reasoning is that the public should have access to the research that they are funding through the tax dollars, which I think seems reasonable enough.
"Not surprisingly, the publishers who print the articles in the journals don't agree, and they have lobbied for the introduction of a piece of legislation that would put an end to the NIH Public Access Policy and similar measures to ensure public access to federally funded works. The bill, called the Research Works Act, would prevent the government from requiring free dissemination of research articles that have been funded by federal dollars and also prohibit the government from developing open access repositories, like PubMed Central. According to its proponents, this legislation is necessary to protect publishers from having to give away their articles for free, which would discourage them from investing in the publication process. The Association of American Publishers' response is available here."
FULL ARTICLE:
[link]
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