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Applications for this new distance learning course are now open.
The course will provide an introduction to the core mathematical skills, concepts and ideas that underpin the modelling of biological systems. It will cover: basic algebraic manipulations; elementary differential and integral calculus; ordinary differential equations; the foundations of probability and statistics; basics of inference and fitting mathematical models to experimental data; intermediate computational techniques, e.g. Monte Carlo sampling for Bayesian inference; examples of basic mathematical analysis informing modelling procedures for biochemical networks. It is designed to prepare participants for our core modelling course 'Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks'.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For details of Mathematics for Metabolic Modelling: [link]
For information on the University of Manchester's distance Masters programmes in Computational Biology: [link]
If have any questions about the options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk
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Regional Student Groups (RSGs) are the grass root level bodies of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB Student Council) and are important in promoting the development of the next generation of computational biologists, through provision of scientific events, networking opportunities, soft-skills training, educational resources and career advice, while attempting to influence policy processes affecting science and education. RSG Eastern Africa draws its members (Undergraduates, MSc and PhD) from but not necessarily limited to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Burundi, Eritrea and Congo Democratic Republic.
Partnering opportunities: We are seeking for partnerships/collaborations with organizations, institutions, companies, persons or groups that share in our interests and those of ISCB Student Council.
Some of the areas in which you could get involved:
- Facilitating/sponsoring workshops/trainings/conferences in any area of Bioinformatics/Computational Biology
- Mentoring our members by directly involving them in collaborative Bioinformatics/Computational Biology projects leading to publications
- As a resource person(s) who may be visiting/residing in any of our Eastern African countries and are willing to give workshops/seminar/courses to our members
- Provide internship/attachment opportunity for our members in your lab for a period of time (Exchange programs)
- Provide resources that may aid in learning and advancement of Bioinformatics/Computational Biology in our region
Why partner with RSG Eastern Africa: You will contribute towards capacity building in the area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Africa enabling students from Africa take advantage of the power of computation to tackle some of the biological questions that may contribute towards alleviation of poverty and diseases in Africa.
More information about us:
On ISCB Student Council Website http://iscbsc.org/rsg/rsg-eastern-africa
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DATES: March 1-2, 2010 (sign up for one or two days)
LOCALE: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Simbios is excited to announce its upcoming Molecular Dynamics (MD) Workshop Series, highlighting new capabilities within the recently released OpenMM 1.0 for developing and accelerating MD codes on GPUs and introducing PyOpenMM for rapid MD code development with high performance.
Day 1: Running and Developing MD Algorithms on GPUs with OpenMM
Day 2: Introduction to MD and Trajectory Analysis with Markov State Models
REGISTRATION:
Registration is free but required and spaces are limited. Visit [link].
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DATE: July 27, 2010
LOCALE: London, UK
URL: [link]
Organized as part of the 2010 International Information Visualisation Conference, the Fourth International Symposium of Information Visualization in Biomedical Informatics (IVBI) is a forum for the presentation of original papers in information visualization theory and applications to biomedical 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.
Proceeding will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, with ISBN number, and to be indexed by IEEE Xplore and other major bibliographical search engines.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010
Notification of reviewing results: April 16, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: April 30, 2010
Early registration: April 30, 2010
Symposium date: July 27, 2010
Submission procedures: [link]
IV 2010 URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/
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DATE: July 9, 2010
LOCALE: Boston, MA (ISMB 2010)
URL: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/
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!
We are happy to announce our three 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/.
We are doing our best to provide as many travel fellowhips as possible to help you attend the symposium. So put the date on your agenda and prepare your abstract!
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DATE: August 2, 2010
LOCALE: Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A.
URL: http://ailab.cs.iastate.edu/iciw2010/
To be held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB) (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2010/), Niagara Falls, NY, U.S.A. August 2-4, 2010
Naturally emerging or reemerging diseases pose some of the most serious threats to human health. Computational methods are urgently needed for developing new vaccines, therapies, and models to improve our understanding of the immune system, and reliable tools for focusing experimental investigations.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers in computer scientists, computational biologists, structural biologists, virologists, bacteriologists, immunologists, vaccinologists, and systems biologists to share research challenges, research results, methods, and advances in immunoinformatics and computational immunology.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: May 5, 2010
Workshop date: August 2, 2010
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DATES: May 15-17, 2010
LOCALE: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (immediately following the Biology of Genomes)
URL: http://www.galaxyproject.org/dev2010
The true value of high throughput sequencing methodologies will only be realized when the analysis of NGS datasets will be accessible to EVERY biologist or clinical researcher. Getting there will involve marrying tools with the data and rearing a rowdy progeny of output formats and downstream applications.
Galaxy (http://usegalaxy.org) is a webapp designed to counsel such marriages by providing tool integration, job control, and data management features. The goal of the Conference is to introduce developers of analysis tools, bioinformatics staff, and IT managers of sequencing facilities to internals of the Galaxy framework.
So, if you:
- Write tools for analysis of NGS data
- Are an IT professional managing a core facility or sequencing center
- Develop applications for management of very large datasets
- Write web applications for biologists
Then register now at http://www.galaxyproject.org/dev2010
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DATES: May 24-June 4, 2010
LOCALE: Okinawa, Japan
URL: http://www.irp.oist.jp/qecg2010/
The theme of the 2010 Summer School is the phenomenon of strong (or extreme) sequence conservation, which will be explored from a quantitative and multidisciplinary perspective, and connections forged with parts of biology outside of genomics.
Broad Topic Categories:
- Ultra-conservation: Theory & Experiment
- Ultra-conserved Elements (UCEs) within Populations
- Comparative, Evolutionary and Population Genomics
- Recombination and Genome Rearrangement
- Neutral and Adaptive Evolution: Proteins, RNA, Regulatory Sequences, Genomes
- Experimental Evolution
The format of the summer school consists of a three-hour presentation in the morning, with coffee breaks, followed by an hour or two of discussion in the afternoon. The summer school is aimed primarily at introducing approximately forty students and post-docs with quantitative backgrounds - not necessarily in biology - to the splitting edge of contemporary comparative and evolutionary genomics research. As such, tutorials will be offered to get participants with less-developed quantitative skills or sparse biological background up to speed insofar as possible; however, we hope that presentations will be intense and self-contained.
OIST provides summer school students with accommodation at Seaside House and financial support for their travel. Students will be selected competitively based upon their completed applications, submitted by February 15, 2010 to qecg2010#oist.jp (replacing the "#" by "@" of course).
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DATES: March 10-12, 2010
LOCALE: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
The 3rd Asian Young Researchers Conference on Computational and Omics Biology 2010 (AYRCOB 2010) is a sequel of the two conferences between Japan and Taiwan for young researchers. The conference aims to achieve a 2-fold objective: to provide an avenue of exposure for students who are interested in the areas Computational and Omics Biology to participate in lectures of current topics from leading scientists of the field, and to establish international collaboration through interaction and discussion with fellow participants.
All papers will be peer reviewed for acceptance and shortlisted papers
will be published in a conference proceedings. Authors of selected
papers will be invited for oral or poster presentation at the
symposium
IMPORTANT DATES:
Call for Paper Opens: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Paper/Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Paper/Abstract Acceptance Notification: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Paper/Abstract Acceptance Deadline: Saturday, February 17, 2010
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Further details of the location are available at the AYRCOB 2010
official website ([link]). For questions concerning the scientific content of submissions, please
contact jt...@cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
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This is an update for those people interested in taking one or more of our courses in March 2010. The courses beginning on 1 March 2010 include:
- Introduction to software development in Java
- Introduction to microarray data analysis
- Databases and data modelling
- Biocomputing
- Object-oriented analysis and design with UML
- Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
You will find further information, including fees and a link to the online application form, here: [link]. If you have any questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk
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