[BiO BB] Last call for abstracts: Automated Function Prediction / Biosapiens 2008

Iddo Friedberg idoerg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 21:08:10 EDT 2008


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ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK.

LOCALE: Toronto, Canada (ISMB 2008)
DATES: July 18-19, 2008

The Automated Function Prediction (AFP) special interest group and the
Biosapiens European network of excellence are teaming up to hold a two-day
Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting alongside ISMB 2008.

The deluge of genomic information is challenging biologists to annotate this
data, from locating genes in the raw data through predicting the function
form protein sequence and structure. AFP and Biosapiens share many common
goals, and this year we have decided to join forces for a meeting that will
deal with a wide scope of gene, protein, and genomic annotations. This
meeting is held alongside ISMB, the largest conference on computational
biology worldwide.

This year we are also considering mini-tutorial submissions. Please see the
AFP / Biosapiens site for more information.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Talk, tutorial and poster abstracts due: March 31, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2008
Final abstracts due: May 5, 2008
AFP-Biosapiens SIG : July 18-19, 2008

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

  - Patricia Babbitt, University of California San Francisco, USA
  - Peer Bork, European Molecular Biology Laboratories, Germany
  - Andrew Emili, University of Toronto, Canada
  - Roderic Guigó, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Universitat
  Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  - Barry Honig, Columbia University and Howard Hughes Medical
  Institute, USA
  - Kimmen Sjölander, University of California Berkeley, USA
  - Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, USA



FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://2008.BioFunctionPrediction.org/<
http://2008.biofunctionprediction.org/>

About ISMB 2008:
http://www.iscb.org/ismb2008/

For inquiries, including sponsorship opportunities, please email:
afpbiosap2008 at gmail.com


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