From dan.bolser at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 04:28:49 2011 From: dan.bolser at gmail.com (Dan Bolser) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:28:49 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] Fwd: [Bioperl-l] GSoC call for mentors In-Reply-To: <4D94FA81.5090701@cornell.edu> References: <4D94FA81.5090701@cornell.edu> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Buels Date: 31 March 2011 23:04 Subject: [Bioperl-l] GSoC call for mentors To: Robert Buels Hi all, For current developers on OBF projects: If you would not mind being a mentor to a Summer of Code student this summer, please make sure you sign up as an OBF mentor in the GSoC web app. ?There's a link under "mentors: apply now!" midway down the page at http://www.google-melange.com/. ?If you didn't do last year's summer of code, it would be a good idea to drop me an email introducing yourself, as well, or I won't know whether to approve your request. :-) Being signed up as an OBF GSoC mentor will give you access to the student proposals, as they come in, and the ability to comment on them and assign scores to the ones you think show the most promise. If you sign up as a mentor, please also add yourself to the two OBF GSoC mailing lists: OBF-GSoC and OBF-GSoC-mentors OBF-GSoC list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc OBF mentors: ? http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc-mentors Thanks in advance! Rob --- Robert Buels OBF GSoC 2011 Administrator _______________________________________________ Bioperl-l mailing list Bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l From dan.bolser at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 04:29:25 2011 From: dan.bolser at gmail.com (Dan Bolser) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:29:25 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] Fwd: [Bioperl-l] Reminder: GSoC proposals due in 1 week In-Reply-To: <4D94F91C.1080005@cornell.edu> References: <4D94F91C.1080005@cornell.edu> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Buels Date: 31 March 2011 22:58 Subject: [Bioperl-l] Reminder: GSoC proposals due in 1 week To: Robert Buels Hi all, Just a reminder, Google Summer of Code student applications are due April 8! If you're a student planning to apply to GSoC with OBF, it's very much in your best interest to write your proposal *early*, like now, and get it into the hands of the developers and mentors on your subproject (BioPerl/Ruby/Python/etc) so that they can give you some feedback on it. The final proposals must, of course, still be submitted to Google through the GSoC web application, as described on the main GSoC site (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2011). Rob Buels OBF GSoC 2011 Administrator _______________________________________________ Bioperl-l mailing list Bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l From mourad12345678 at yahoo.com Fri Apr 1 11:46:37 2011 From: mourad12345678 at yahoo.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [BiO BB] ISI-Internationa School of Informatics at Johannes Kepler University of Linz Message-ID: <688184.12190.qm@web31506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ISI-International School in Informatics ? With our new JKU-International Master's Program we offer international students a ???unique opportunity with the following special features: - the student can pass the first year of the master's program at the home university. - the student can study for the second year in the frame of our program - the student, at the end of the program, will receive a master's degree (conferred by ???the Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz). Also joint degrees are possible. - the student will get the opportunity to work on a master thesis project in cooperation with one of the research institutes or companies in the Softwarepark Hagenberg - the student will get an individual curriculum consisting of special courses relevant for his/her master's thesis - the student will be assigned his individualr academic advisor and also his company advisor - the student will get a special Entrepreneurship training. The tuition for this exceptional program is 9500 Euros. For particularly good students we provide various fellowships that cover part of the tuition. Application deadline for the academic year, starting in September 2011 is May 1st, 2011. Prerequisites for entering this program: - a bachelor degree in computer science or a related subject that is equivalent to a bachelor degree according to EU-standards ("Bologna standard"), i.e. minimum 120 credit hours of computer science related courses. - one additional year of a graduate or master's program in computer science or a related subject (additional 40 credit hours). - Fluency in English as a working and studying language. - excellent performance in the past study, - a personal recommendation letter from a professor, Furthermore, if the home university wants to send students only under a double degree agreement, this will be no problem for us. From rsg-portugal at dnaminers.net Mon Apr 4 09:36:34 2011 From: rsg-portugal at dnaminers.net (DNAMiners ISCBSC RSG Portugal) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:36:34 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] 7th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2011 Message-ID: 7th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2011 Submit your abstract today to participate in the 7th Symposium of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council on July 15th 2011 in Vienna! The Student Council Symposium aims at bringing together young computational biologists from all research areas and regions of the world. As the central part of our symposium, 12 student presentations will be selected from the submitted abstracts. This is your chance to present your work! We accept abstracts covering both scientific studies as well as novel tools and applications in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics. Accepted abstracts will be published in Bioinformatics journal. Travel Fellowships are available (see below) and awards will be given to best poster and presentation. Submission website: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/content/submissions Travel Fellowship information: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/content/tfsubmission General information: http://symposium.iscbsc.org/ Important dates January 31: Abstract and Travel Fellowship submission opens February 15: Travel Fellowships submission opens April 29: Abstract submission closes May 6: Travel Fellowships submission closes May 23: Travel Fellowship winners and Abstract acceptance notification We look forward to receiving your abstract, Lorena Pantano Chair, 7th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2011 Pedro Lopes Co-Chair, 7th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2011 From dan.bolser at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 09:30:18 2011 From: dan.bolser at gmail.com (Dan Bolser) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:30:18 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] Fwd: [nextgenbug] Fwd: 2 post-doc positions in NGS Bioinformatics in Valencia, Spain In-Reply-To: References: <90A71016-874D-4F21-81AA-546353A3901B@gmail.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Blaxter Date: 6 April 2011 11:28 Subject: [nextgenbug] Fwd: 2 post-doc positions in NGS Bioinformatics in Valencia, Spain To: ngbug Begin forwarded message: *From: *Ana Conesa *Date: *5 April 2011 16:04:23 GMT+01:00 *To: *aconesa at ochoa.fib.es *Subject: **2 post-doc positions in NGS Bioinformatics in Valencia, Spain* *Dear Friends* * Please, find attached announcement for 2 post doctoral positions at my lab. I would really appreciate it if you can send this to any person you know might be interested or hang somewhere visible at your Institution. Thanks and warm greetings Ana -- Ana Conesa, PhD. Head Genomics of Gene Expression Lab Bioinformatics and Genomis Department Centro de Investigaciones Pr?ncipe Felipe Avda. Autopista Saler, 16 46012 Valencia (Spain) Phone: +34 96 328 96 80 aconesa at cipf.es bioinfo.cipf.es/aconesa www.blast2go.org * * * * * * * *[image: GGE.png]*** * * *2 post-doc positions (12 and 18 months) at the Bioinformatics and Genomics Department of the Pr?ncipe Felipe Research Center, Valencia, Spain* We are seeking for motivated and qualified researchers in the area of Bioinformatics. The candidates must hold a PhD degree and have experience in the analysis of genomics data. Applicants should have a doctor degree in Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Computer Sciences or related disciplines with a bioinformatics orientation. *Programming skills* and *fluent English* are required. Knowledge and experience in *Next Generation Sequencing* data analysis is highly recommendable. Researchers will address different biological questions related to pathogenicity mechanisms and genome regulation through transcriptome analysis using high-throughout sequencing approaches. We offer incorporation into a multidisciplinary, cooperative and dynamic team of above 30 scientists within an internationally oriented research institute. Applicants can learn more about our group at: *Genomics of Gene Expression Lab *http://bioinfo.cipf.es/aconesa *Bioinformatics and Genomics Department* http://bioinfo.cipf.es *Centro de Investigaciones Pr?ncipe Felipe* http://www.cipf.es For further questions and applications (before April 16th), contact *Ana Conesa (**aconesa at cipf.es* *) * *[image: GGE.png]*** * * * * * * * * ** ** * * Mark Blaxter mark.blaxter at ed.ac.uk ~ may all beings be happy ~ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From apico at gladstone.ucsf.edu Thu Apr 7 13:15:14 2011 From: apico at gladstone.ucsf.edu (Alexander Pico) Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:15:14 -0700 Subject: [BiO BB] Extended Call for Abstracts : Network Biology SIG at ISMB 2011 in Vienna, July 15th In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Extended Call for Abstracts: Network Biology SIG at ISMB 2011 in Vienna, July 15th **Abstracts Due: April 18th** The Network Biology (NetBio) SIG will focus on two major areas: (1) the development of network-related tools and resources, and (2) the application of network analysis and visualization in the study of biology, synthetic biology and medicine. The meeting will provide a unique interface between tool developers and users in the field of network biology. Through these complementary lenses, the SIG will bring into focus the current state of the field, its future promise and how to get there. http://nrnb.org/netbiowiki == Keynote speakers == Trey Ideker, ?Rewiring of Genetic Networks by DNA Damage? ? ???University of California at San Diego Alfonso Valencia, ?Using and Completing Cancer Networks? ???Spanish National Cancer Research Centre Gary Bader, ?Network and Pathway Information: Collecting, ???visualizing and using for gene function prediction? ???University of Toronto Henning Hermjakob, ?Reactome, IntAct, PSICQUIC: ???Bringing pathways and interactions together? ???European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) == Call for Abstracts == We invite abstracts for talks at one of the two main sessions: Tools & Resources or Applied Research. We are seeking a diversity of submissions to represent the breadth and depth of Network Biology. Find guidelines at http://nrnb.org/netbiowiki/Abstract_submission == Important Details == Date: July 15, 2011 Location: Vienna, Austria ISMB site: http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011-program/satellite-meetings#network NetBio wiki: http://nrnb.org/netbiowiki Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/netbio Abstract submission: http://nrnb.org/netbiowiki/Abstract_submission == Important Dates == Feb 7: Open for submissions April 18: Abstract deadline May 6: Notification of accepted abstracts July 15: NetBio SIG 2011 See you there! NetBio Organizing Committee Alexander Pico (apico at gladstone.ucsf.edu), Scooter Morris, Allan Kuchinsky, Annette Adler, Gary Bader, Mario Albrecht, Diego di Bernardo, Ian Donaldson, Hana El-Samad From barry.hardy at vtxmail.ch Fri Apr 8 12:39:37 2011 From: barry.hardy at vtxmail.ch (Barry Hardy) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:39:37 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] OpenTox Meeting: Innovation in Predictive Toxicology, Munich Message-ID: <4D9F3A49.1040704@vtxmail.ch> We are holding an OpenTox InterAction Meeting, in Munich, Germany (10-12 August 2011) on Innovation in Predictive Toxicology. Further information including a preliminary list of speakers and topics, and links to abstract submission and registration forms is located at: http://www.opentox.org/meet/opentox2011 Abstract submissions should be completed by 30 April for consideration for the conference program and bursary awards. Poster abstracts will continue to be accepted through 30 June, to be eligible for meeting-based review and innovation merit awards. Registration should be completed using the form located at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/opentox2011 Registration involves no fee, but please note that places are limited to 100 participants, and we will have to close registration once our confirmed invitation and acceptance list is full. A pre-conference OpenTox workshop on new developments in methods, REACH-relevant models and applications will be held 9 August. best regards Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect) and Stefan Kramer (Technical University of Munich) OpenTox InterAction Meeting Co-Chairs Barry Hardy PhD Director, Community of Practice & Research Activities and OpenTox Project Coordinator (www.opentox.org) Douglas Connect Baermeggenweg 14 4314 Zeiningen Switzerland From idoerg at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 11:05:40 2011 From: idoerg at gmail.com (Iddo Friedberg) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:05:40 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] AFP/CAFA 2011 abstracts & fellowships reminder Message-ID: Dear all, (Please forward as appropriate, sorry for cross-posting). Just a gentle reminder that talk and poster abstracts for the Automated Function Prediction SIG 2011 are due April 18, 2011. To submit your abstract go here: http://biofunctionprediction.org/node/415 We are grateful to the National Institutes of Health for supporting this meeting and for providing travel fellowships to the AFP meeting. US-based students and postdocs who will submit an abstract by the deadline may be eligible for a travel fellowship to Vienna. Information on the fellowships is forthcoming. More information on the AFP SIG, and the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation Experiment may be found here: http://biofunctionprediction.org/ Please contact me with any questions you may have. Iddo Friedberg, co-chair, AFP/CAFA 2011 -- Iddo Friedberg http://iddo-friedberg.net/contact.html From paolo.romano at istge.it Fri Apr 15 07:12:28 2011 From: paolo.romano at istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:12:28 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] CfP: BITS 2011, June 20-22, Pisa, Italy Message-ID: <201104151112.p3FBCWOt001388@clus2.istge.it> Apologizes for duplications ==== BITS 2011 8th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society June 20-22, 2011 http://www.bits2011.it/ Auditiorum - Area della Ricerca CNR, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy. CALL FOR PAPERS Submission of contributions A structured abstract of max 5,000 characters (including spaces) must be submitted through the BITS 2011 submission form at http://www.bioinformatics.it/?mod=bitmeeting Topics Novel bioinformatics methods, algorithms, databases, tools and applications for research and development in one or more of the following domains: * Genomics * Molecular Evolution and Comparative Genomics * Protein structure and function * Proteomics * Transcriptomics * Metagenomics * Systems Biology * Biological Databases and Biobanks * Algorithms for Bioinformatics * Biophysics and Synthetic Biology Important dates * Abstract for Poster and Communications submission deadline: April 19, 2011. * Travel fellowship request deadline: April 19, 2011. * Abstract and Poster Acceptance: May 17, 2011. * Travel fellowship award: May 17, 2011. * Early registration deadline: May 20, 2011. BMC Bioinformatics Supplement Authors of all accepted submissions (oral communications and posters) will be invited to submit an extended and revised manuscript to a Call for full research papers for a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics devoted to best works presented at BITS 2011. PROGRAMME Provisional programme at http://www.bits2011.it/index.php?pg=show&id=3 Keynote speakers Arthur Lesk, Penn State University, PA, USA Cedric Notredame, CRG, Barcelona Bud Mishra, New York University, NY, USA. Marie-France Sagot, INRIA-Lyon, France Tutorials Tutorial lectures will be held at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa in the afternoon of June 22nd. Satellite Event Workshop "Quantitative biology: a matter of perspective", Rome, June 22-24, 2011. See the web site http://www.biocomputing.it/quantbiol/ for further details. REGISTRATION Registration form http://www.bioinformatics.it/?mod=bitreserve Registration fees Fees vary according to the registration date. Students: 120 ? (early registration), 150 ? (late registration), 200 ? (on site registration) Academic: 200 ? (early registration), 250 ? (late registration), 300 ? (on site registration) Industry: 300 ? (early registration), 350 ? (late registration), 400 ? (on site registration) A reduction of 30 ? on all fees is granted to BITS members, provided that they have already paid their memberships fee in advance, by using the appropriate function of the web site (members area, available after login by the member's own account). All registration fees includes meeting attendance, poster session, lunches, coffee breaks, one copy of the book of abstracts, tutorials, welcome cocktail. Early registration deadline: May 20, 2011. TRAVEL GRANTS The Bioinformatics Italian Society provides young researchers with travel grants for attending its annual general meeting. Eligibility Young researchers (up to 35 years old) that are BITS members or are requesting to become members, without a permanent position and submitting an abstract to the conference as first or last author may apply. Priority will be given to young researchers not receiving a BITS travel fellowship in previous years. Evaluation Travel Grants will be awarded according to the scores assigned by the Scientific Committee to the submitted abstracts. Only the best scoring attendee per each research group may be rewarded with a travel grant. Young researchers requesting to become members may only receive the grant if the BITS Steering Committee has provisionally given its approval to their candidature. Grants Each travel grant will amount to ? 300.00, which will be credited to the bank account of selected candidates after the conference and provided that they effectively participated in the meeting. Deadlines Applications should be sent by email to segretario at bioinformatics.it within the same deadline for the abstracts. Applications should include the following data: Name, Surname, Birth date, Role (Student / Phd Student / Researcher / Other), Affiliation, Title of the abstract, Author(s) of the abstract, BITS Memberships status (Member / Pending request), Previous grants awarded (Yes / No) Submission of candidature to become BITS members should be done within the same deadline (for young researchers who aren't members yet). Registration Student fees apply, according to registration date. For any further information or clarification: Web site: http://www.bits2011.it . Email: bits2011 @ iit .cnr .it Many thanks. Paolo Romano Ing. Paolo Romano Segretario Societ? Italiana di Bioinformatica BITS Email: segretario at bioinformatics.it Skype: p.romano Web: http://www.nettab.org/promano/ ======= ATTENZIONE. 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Pedro Fernandes -- Pedro Fernandes Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS Tel +351 21 4407912 http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt ----- Forwarded message from pfern at igc.gulbenkian.pt ----- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:24:21 +0100 From: Pedro Fernandes Reply-To: Pedro Fernandes Subject: [Research] [Gtpb reminder] Course RNA11, RNA Bioinformatics To: gtpb at igc.gulbenkian.pt, research at igc.gulbenkian.pt *** REMINDER *** Deadline for applications May 1st 2011 Dear All The Bioinformatics Training Course course RNA11 is OPEN for applications RNA11 Application Deadline RNA Bioinformatics Until May 1st 2011 with Lars Barquist (Sanger) and Anton Enright (EBI) Course dates: MAY 9th 11th 2011 RNA11 - An introduction to tools for identifying and characterizing RNA sequences Course description: Overview This course will give an overview of RNA and the informatic challenges associated with studying RNA. This course will be run as a mixture of lectures and hands-on problem solving sessions. Objectives The course is practical in nature. After participating attendees will be aware of the difficulties in dealing with RNA. Current methods for addressing these challenges and the limitations of each approach. They should be able to predict RNA secondary structures, be able to use state of the art RNA homology search tools, predict RNA:RNA interactions, and use comparative methods for studying RNA structure. Course Pre-requisites: Basic Molecular Biology. Graduate level understanding of Molecular Biology. A basic level of computer knowledge will be assumed. Target Audience: Biologists interested in applying computational tools for RNA sequence analysis to their research. Course fee: 240.00 (for 3 days at Euro 80.00), lunch is included for non-campus people. more information at http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/RNA11 Information on all GTPB courses at http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt -- Pedro Fernandes GTPB Coordinator ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From calendarsites at insticc.org Tue Apr 19 04:50:12 2011 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (CalendarSites) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:50:12 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] CFP BIOSTEC 2012 - 5th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies Message-ID: <005501cbfe6e$cf6aed20$6e40c760$@org> CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2012 Website: http://www.biostec.org February 1 - 4, 2012 Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal Important Deadlines: Regular Paper Submission: July 25, 2011 Authors Notification (Regular Papers): September 29, 2011 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 20, 2011 Technical Co-sponsored by: ESEM (European Society for Engineering and Medicine) BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) IEEE EMB (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) IEEE Portugal EMBS Chapter (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) In cooperation with: AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) The purpose of BIOSTEC is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed of four co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas. - BIODEVICES: International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org) CONFERENCE TOPICS * Biomedical Instrumentation * Biomedical Equipment * Biomedical Sensors * Biomedical Metrology * Microelectronics * Health Monitoring Devices * Embedded Signal Processing * Low-Power Design * Electrical Bio-Impedance * Bio-Electromagnetism * Biorobotics * Biocomputing and Biochips * Implantable Electronics * Emerging Technologies * Biotelemetry * Wireless Systems * Biomaterials * MEMS * Nanotechnologies * Biomechanical Devices * Artificial Limbs * Technologies Evaluation * Cardiovascular Biomechanics * Electrocardiography and Heart Monitoring * Computer-aided Detection and Diagnosis * Computational Physiology (Virtual Organs) * Brain-Computer Interfaces * Spectroscopic Applications * Imaging and Visualization Devices - BIOINFORMATICS: International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org) CONFERENCE TOPICS * Genomics and Proteomics * Sequence Analysis * Structural Bioinformatics * Image Analysis * Visualization * Databases and Data Management * Data Mining and Machine Learning * Biostatistics and Stochastic Models * Computational Molecular Systems * Pharmaceutical Applications * Systems Biology * Computational Intelligence * Simulation * Algorithms and Software Tools * Web Services in Bioinformatics * Immuno- and Chemo-informatics * Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification * Structure Prediction * Model Design and Evaluation * Transcriptomics * Next Generation Sequencing * Structural Variations - BIOSIGNALS: International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org) CONFERENCE TOPICS * Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing * Wearable Sensors and Systems * Real-time Systems * Biometrics * Pattern Recognition * Fuzzy Systems and Signals * Evolutionary Systems * Neural Networks * Speech Recognition * Acoustic Signal Processing * Time and Frequency Response * Wavelet Transform * Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing * Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear Dynamics * Monitoring and Telemetry * Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies * Electromagnetic Fields in Biology and Medicine * Cardiovascular Signals * Image Analysis and Processing * Detection and Identification * Motion Control - HEALTHINF: International Conference on Health Informatics(http://www.healthinf.biostec.org) CONFERENCE TOPICS * e-Health * Telemedicine * Medical and Nursing Informatics * Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT * Interoperability * Semantic Interoperability * Confidentiality and Data Security * Knowledge Management * Databases and Datawarehousing * Datamining * Decision Support Systems * Wearable Health Informatics * Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications * Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT * Physiological Modeling * Cognitive Informatics * Affective Computing * Therapeutic Systems and Technologies * Healthcare Management Systems * Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons * Development of Assistive Technology * ICT, Ageing and Disability * Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT * Electronic Health Records and Standards * Software Systems in Medicine * Pervasive Health Systems and Services * e-Health for Public Health * Clinical Problems and Applications * Data Visualization * Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning These four concurrent conferences are held in parallel and registration to one warrants delegates to attend all four. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jos? C. Pr?ncipe, University of Florida, U.S.A. (list not yet complete) PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI. AWARDS Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR Carlos Correia, University of Coimbra, Portugal Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Available soon. WORKSHOPS 3rd International Workshop on Medical Image Analysis and Description for Diagnosis Systems - MIAD 2012 >http://www.biostec.org/MIAD.asp Workshop Chair: Khalifa Djemal University of Evry Val d'Essone France Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.biostec.org). From jprudhomme at healthtech.com Wed Apr 20 12:06:14 2011 From: jprudhomme at healthtech.com (James Prudhomme) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:14 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] New Targets and Drug Modalities Message-ID: <007501cbff74$df85d3d0$9e917b70$@com> CHI and Bio-IT World's "Structure-Based Design" Conference to be held on June 8-10, 2011 in Cambridge, MA, will feature a new session: New Targets and Drug Modalities. The following presentations have just been added and are scheduled on Friday, June 10 from 1:30-3:50 p.m. Structure-Based Ligand Discovery for GPCRs Ruben Abagyan, Ph.D., Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego The Role of Recent Crystal Structures of Membrane Bound Proteins in Drug Discovery for CNS Targets Sid Topiol, Ph.D., CSO, Computational and Structural Investigations, 3D-2Drug Hitting a Moving Target: Characterizing GPCR Signaling through Long- timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulations Ron Dror, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and Special Advisor to the Chairman, D. E. Shaw Research Beyond the Orthosteric Binding Site: A Structure-Based SAR Analysis of the D3R Selective Compounds Lei Shi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College Moving in New Circles - Exploiting Macrocycles for Drug Discovery Nick Terrett, Ph.D., CSO, Ensemble Therapeutics Corp View full details and register at: http://www.healthtech.com/sbd or call 781-972-5400. Those that register by April 29 will receive the advanced registration discount. - James Prudhomme James Prudhomme Marketing Manager Cambridge Healthtech Institute Tel: 781-972-5486 jprudhomme at healthtech.com From cbms2011 at uwe.ac.uk Wed Apr 20 13:18:34 2011 From: cbms2011 at uwe.ac.uk (Cbms 2011) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:18:34 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] Deadline extended: The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2011) Message-ID: <4E6720E886581E4CA33E97657F3070CE2B5447F2D4@EGEN-MBX01.campus.ads.uwe.ac.uk> Apologies for any duplication, PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED - Abstracts are required by April 30th, full papers by May 4th. CBMS 2011, the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (http://www.cbms2011.org) will be held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, from June 27th to 30th 2011. The conference will provide an international forum for discussing the latest developments in the field of computational medicine, biomedical informatics and related fields. There will be regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields. The symposium is the premier conference for computational medicine, providing a mechanism for the exchange of ideas and technologies between academics and industrial scientists, and attracts a worldwide audience. Regular and special track presentations will cover a broad range of issues in (but not limited to) the following areas: ? Software Systems in Medicine ? Computer-Aided Diagnosis ? Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining ? Knowledge-Based Systems and Techniques ? Decision Support Systems ? Medical Devices with Embedded Computers ? Signal and Image Processing in Medicine ? Medical Image Segmentation & Compression ? Machine Vision in Medicine ? Medical Robotics ? Network and Telemedicine Systems ? Medical Databases & Information Systems ? Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information ? Multimedia Biomedical Databases ? Content Analysis of Biomedical Image Data ? Handheld Computing Applications in Medicine ? Bioinformatics in Medicine ? Pervasive Health Systems and Services ? e-Health Special tracks that have been organized: 1. Computational Proteomics and Genomics 2. Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine 3. Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education 4. Intelligent Patient Management 5. Data Streams in Healthcare 6. Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare 7. Biomedical Image Processing and Informatics 8. Medical Robotics 9. Assistive Technologies 10. Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Workshops will be held on a range of topics, including: ? Health Level Seven (HL7) and Related Standards ? Machine Vision in Medicine ? Ontologies in Biomedical Informatics CBMS 2011 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Many of the above listed topics will be represented by corresponding Special Tracks, while others are solely covered by the general (main) CBMS track. Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to one of the corresponding Special Tracks or to the general track if none of the special tracks is relevant. Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages; LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates are available at www.cbms2011.org. The papers should be submitted electronically before the paper submission deadline using the EasyChair online submission system. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, with fonts embedded. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Each Program Committee of the corresponding Special Track or General Track will be responsible for the final decision about acceptance of papers submitted to that track. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press. At least one author must pay the registration fee before May 30th for each accepted paper. A limited number of places with on-site accommodation will be available for only ?450 (tbc). This all-in registration including accommodation will be preferentially allocated to students. Registration will include free access to all sessions from the co-located HealthGrid 2011 conference. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 4th 2011 (abstracts required by April 30th) Notification to authors: May 20th 2011 Camera-ready deadline: May 30th 2011 Registration deadline: May 30th 2011 Conference days: June 27th-30th 2011 See http://www.cbms2011.org/?call-for-papers.html for more details. Also, please circulate this to your students, colleagues, and anyone else you think might be interested. We hope to see you soon in Bristol! Best regards, CBMS 2011 Admin Team From Gaurav.Pradhan at asu.edu Mon Apr 25 13:45:44 2011 From: Gaurav.Pradhan at asu.edu (Gaurav Pradhan) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:45:44 -0700 Subject: [BiO BB] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2011) References: <499BA5B74640014B9C20CC878F0A85965D3E242C@EX11.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: <277C1701239FAE41850579216CE41D79CE9FC5E94E@EX11.asurite.ad.asu.edu> 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012) January 28-30, 2012 Miami, Florida, USA http://www.sighit.org/ihi2012 (mirror site: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/ihi2012/) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: June 23, 2011 11:59pm EST Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2011 11:59pm EST ABOUT THE CONFERENCE IHI 2012 is the main conference of the newly formed ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics (SIGHIT). IHI 2012 is ACM's premier community forum concerned with the application of computer science principles, information science principles, information technology, and communication technology to address problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness. The conference highlights the most novel technical contributions in computing-oriented health informatics and the related social and ethical implications. IHI 2012 will feature keynotes, a multi-track technical program including papers, demonstrations, and panels. New additions to the IHI 2012 program include tutorials and a doctoral consortium. IHI 2012 serves as a venue for the discussion of innovative technical contributions highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and technologies, even if available only in prototype form (e.g., a system is not deployed in production mode and/or evaluation may be performed by giving examples). We strongly encourage authors to submit their original contributions describing their algorithmic contributions, methodological contributions, and well-founded conjectures based on an application-oriented context. A paper does not have to be comprehensive and can focus on a single aspect of design, development, evaluation, or deployment. Contributions in the realm of social and behavioral issues might include empirical studies of health-related information use and needs, socio-technical studies on the implementation and use of health information technology, studies on health informatics in the context of community impact and implications, studies on public policies on leveraging health informatics infrastructure, among others. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The conference will accept both regular and short papers. Regular papers (6-10 pages in length) will describe more mature ideas, where a substantial amount of implementation, experimentation, or data collection and analysis will be described. Short papers (1-5 pages) can be less formal and will describe innovative ideas where a less degree of validation and implementation have occurred. All papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. The list of conference topics is available on the conference web site. The best papers of IHI 2012 will also be considered for journal publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). IHI 2012 has three tracks: analytics, systems, and human factors. " The analytics track focuses on data analysis. " The systems track focuses on building health informatics systems (e.g., architecture, framework, design, engineering, and application). " The human factors track focuses on understanding users or context, interface design, and user studies of health informatics applications. When submitting a paper, the authors must select a track that they regard as the most appropriate one for their paper. Before the review process starts, the PC co-chairs will check each paper and make adjustment if necessary to ensure the submission will be reviewed in the correct track. A subset of highly-ranked papers will have oral presentation slots. The other accepted papers, which are not selected for oral presentation, will be presented as posters. Submitted papers must not have appeared in, or be under consideration for, another conference, workshop, journal, or other target of publication. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR DEMOS IMPORTANT DATES Demo paper submission deadline: June 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF THE DEMO TRACK A submission proposal includes a demo paper and can optionally include a demo video, whose URL should be referred to in the textual demo description for reviewers to take into consideration when analyzing the submission. Note that the demo paper should differ from regular papers in several important aspects. (1) it should clearly describe the overall architecture of the system or technology demonstrated. (2) the paper should put great emphasis on the motivation of the work, on the applications of the presented system or technology, and on the novelty of the work. (3) the proposal should clearly describe the demo scenario. In particular, it should describe how the demo audience can interact with the demo system, to better understand the underlying technology. A list of IHI areas/topics can be found in the Call for Papers. For demos running over the web, a back-up scenario should be described, in case connectivity is limited at the demo venue. The notification for acceptance of demo papers is the same as that for regular papers. Accepted demo proposals will appear in the final proceedings and in ACM digital library. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM SUBMISSIONS IMPORTANT DATES Doctoral consortium submission deadline: June 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The doctorial consortium is expected to offer a supportive learning opportunity for doctoral students in two ways: (1) as a poster presentation during a poster session of the IHI conference and (2) as an article in the SIGHIT Record, the newsletter of SIGHIT (http://www.sighit.org/record/). Extended abstracts will not appear in the IHI conference proceedings. All extended abstract submissions for the doctoral consortium will be formally reviewed by the IHI Program Committee to ensure every accepted submission is appropriate for IHI. The conference organizers will work on ensuring that the doctoral consortium is well attended and have a vibrant discussion environment. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR NON-REFEREED EXTENDED ABSTRACTS IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstract submission deadline: September 8, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF THE NON-REFEREED EXTENDED ABSTRACT TRACK The non-refereed extended abstract track offers an opportunity for health informatics practitioners and researchers to present their work in progress in two ways: (1) as a poster presentation at the IHI conference and; (2) as an article in the SIGHIT Record, the newsletter of SIGHIT (http://www.sighit.org/record/). Extended abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. Although the non-refereed extended abstract submissions will not be formally reviewed, the IHI 2012 conference organizers will read all of the submissions to ensure every accepted submission is appropriate for IHI. The conference organizers will work on ensuring that poster sessions are well attended and have a vibrant discussion environment. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS IMPORTANT DATES Panel proposal submission deadline: June 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF PANEL PROPOSALS Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues on computing-oriented health informatics and appeal to IHI 2012 attendees with various health informatics-related expertise. The proposed panel should be provocative, insightful, and informative. A mix of industry, government, and academic panel members is encouraged. A panel typically includes approximately 4 panelists and a chair who serves as the moderator. The 90-minute panel should provide a balance between panelists' presentations/debate and audience interactions/discussions. Panelists must make a commitment to participate. If for any reason, one panelist cannot attend the panel, the panel chair must first obtain the approval of the conference general/PC chairs before making another arrangement. Panels will be featured prominently in the conference program. REVIEWING Panel proposals will be reviewed by the PC Co-Chairs and the Conference Leadership, based on the IHI attendees' likely interest in them, the expertise of the chairs and the panelists, and the planned interactivity. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposal submission deadline: June 30, 2011 11:59pm EST Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011 11:59pm EST Camera-ready copy due: September 30, 2011 11:59pm EST SCOPE OF TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorials at IHI 2012 will be presented by domain experts to cover current topics directly relevant to the conference theme of computing-oriented health informatics (a list of IHI areas/topics can be found in the Call for Papers). Proposed tutorials should be comprehensive, informative, and appealing to IHI 2012 attendees. Each tutorial will be 120-minutes long. Tutorial instructors must make a commitment to prepare the tutorial materials (e.g., slides) that reflect the high quality standard of IHI. Tutorials will be free to all IHI 2012 attendees, and tutorial instructors will receive free registration but not any financial aid from the conference. All tutorials will be featured prominently in the conference program. REVIEWING Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the PC Co-Chairs and the Conference Leadership, based on the IHI attendees' likely interest in them, the breadth and depth of the topic(s), the planned materials to be used, and the expertise and credential of the instructor. From rwagner at faw.at Wed Apr 27 12:03:04 2011 From: rwagner at faw.at (Prof. Roland Wagner) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:03:04 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] ITBAM 2011: POSTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE; May 16, 2011 Message-ID: <4DB83E38.3060203@faw.at> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email). Call for Papers and Posters =============================================================== International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics ITBAM 2011 ================================================================ In conjunction with DEXA 2011 www.dexa.org 29 August ? 2 September 2011 Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France Data intensive disciplines like life sciences and medicine are promoting vivid research activities in the area of databases. Modern technologies such as high-throughput mass-spectrometry and sequencing, micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. produce enormous and continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases provide access to aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein sequences, biological pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and scientific literature. There has never been more potentially available information to study biomedical systems ranging from single cells to complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into actionable information triggering scientific progress and supporting patient management. Major biomedical application scenarios for research in the database community include but are not limited to: * Systems biology * Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics * Genome-wide association studies * Drug target discovery and personalized medicine * Neuroscience * Electronic patient records * Patient monitoring * Surgery planning and support * etc. Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in information technology: * Administration of vast amounts of data * Integration of heterogeneous data sources * Federated and distributed databases * Data warehouses * Data mining techniques like classification, clustering, association rule mining, etc. * Decision support systems * Information and image retrieval * Signal processing and streaming databases * Privacy protection and data security * Data quality assurance * Process management and collaborative work * User interfaces and visualization * etc. Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences and medicine is an inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. Often there is a long way from an idea to practical application which involves intensive discussion between experts in information technology, life sciences and medicine. ITBAM accompanies and supports this way by providing an excellent venue for the exchange of ideas, fruitful discussion, and effective interaction among interdisciplinary researchers. In addition to the regular conference program featuring presentations of full and short research papers published in the proceedings, ITBAM encourages the submission of posters reporting work in progress. All accepted posters will be displayed during the whole event and abstracts will also be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES ITBAM conference papers and poster submissions: * Submission of full papers (firm): March 7, 2011 --- deadline extended to April 10, 2011 !!!! * Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2011 * Submission of posters (firm): May 16, 2011 * Camera-ready copies due: June 9, 2011 Paper Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions or experience reports in English. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings. * Paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format. Poster submissions are expected to consist of 1 page Abstract (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). * Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. * For registration and electronic submission see: http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ * The submission system will be open starting from January 2011. * Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. * Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission." Accepted Papers: All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Accepted full papers will be of 15 pages length, short papers 8 pages. Authors of accepted papers must sign a Springer copyright release form. For further inquiries, please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela at dexa.org). General Chairperson: Christian B?hm, University of Munich, Germany Program Committee Co-chairpersons: Sami Khuri, San Jos? State University, USA Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy Program Committee: Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria Fuat Akal, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, Switzerland Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan, Japan Andreas Albrecht, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom Julien Allali, LABRI, University of Bordeaux 1, France Lijo Anto, University of Kerala, India Rub?n Arma?anzas Arnedillo, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Balaram Bhattacharyya, Visva-Bharati University, India Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Gianluca Bontempi, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy S?nia Casillas, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, Spain Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, China Vaclav Chudacek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Coral del Val Mu?oz, University of Granada, Spain Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Mourad Elloumi, University of Tunis, Tunesia Maria Federico, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Christoph M. Friedrich, Univ. of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Verona, Italy Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi, Simon Fraser University, Canada Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Germany Alastair Kerr, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Sami Khuri, San Jose State University, USA Michal Kr?tk?, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Josef K?ng, University of Linz, Austria Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, CIC bioGUNE, Spain Marc Lensink, ULB, Belgium Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Roger Marshall, Plymouth Ystate University, USA Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Universit? della Calabria, Italy Henning Mersch, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, United Kingdom Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy Cinzia Pizzi, Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Italy Clara Pizzuti, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)-National Research Council(CNR), Italy Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Roberto Santana, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna, Austria Jens Stoye, University of Bielefeld, Germany A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, Netherlands Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Oren Weimann, Weizmann Institute, Israel Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute JurInfoR-MSU, Russia Borys Wrobel, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Filip Zavoral, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Heidelberg, Germany From hlapp at gmx.net Fri Apr 29 14:07:45 2011 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:07:45 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] Special Session on Metagenomics, Barcoding, and Biodiversity at iEvoBio (Informatics for Phyogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity) Message-ID: <9D6B8797-A84F-4998-908E-8D5A45C9FE4E@gmx.net> This year, iEvoBio will have a special focus Session on Metagenomics, Barcoding, and Biodiversity and the challenges that these new approaches raise for evolutionary informatics. We now have over 6000 genomes and vast quantities of metagenomic sequences in the public domain, primarily from bacteria and archaea from many habitats. Various short sequences (e.g. barcodes) for quick identification of eukaryotes are emerging. The availability of this sequence data and ever-cheaper methods for producing it offer exciting opportunities forunderstanding molecular evolution and biodiversity. However, the data are growing faster than the infrastructure to support it. Moreover, the eukaryotic and microbial informatics communities have independent histories and approaches, so synergy is not easy. These challenges typify the intersection of fields that are the scope of iEvoBio. Invited speakers in this special session include Neil Davies (http://moorea.berkeley.edu/aboutus/people/ndavies ) from the Moorea Biocode project, Linda Amarral-Zettler (http://amarallab.mbl.edu/ ) from the Marine Biological Laboratory Wood's Hole, and Holly Bik, from the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies at the University of New Hampshire. After the talks, there will be an open panel with all the speakers, including keynote speaker Dawn Field (http://ceh.academia.edu/DawnField ) from the Center for Ecology and Hydrology at Oxford. More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio. iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society for the Study of Ecolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The iEvoBio 2011 Organizing Committee: Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) (Co-chair) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) (Co-chair) Dawn Field (UK National Environmental Research Center) Mark Holder (University of Kansas) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Rod Page (University of Glasgow)