From mazumder at email.gwu.edu Fri Sep 2 21:48:46 2011 From: mazumder at email.gwu.edu (Raja Mazumder) Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:48:46 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] Call for abstracts: 5th International Biocuration Conference Washington DC (submission deadline: November 30, 2011) In-Reply-To: <4E5F88F2.8000708@gwu.edu> References: <30ae2ba2-5084-456b-a46e-30d9b7bc90c6@newmail> <4E5656DD.8030508@gwu.edu> <4E57AA81.10006@gwu.edu> <4E5CEF11.70807@gwu.edu> <4E5D283E.6040200@georgetown.edu> <4E5E4B31.70000@gwu.edu> <4E5F88F2.8000708@gwu.edu> Message-ID: <4E61877E.1020203@email.gwu.edu> Dear colleagues, The call for abstracts for the 5th International Biocuration Conference (April 2-4, 2012) in Washington DC is now open. There are three submission categories for abstracts: 1. Talk or Poster 2. Poster only 3. Workshop only ? Submission deadline November 30, 2011 ? Notification of acceptance February 3, 2012 For additional details please go to http://pir.georgetown.edu/biocuration2012.html/instructions.html The International Biocuration Conference is a unique event for curators and developers of biological databases to discuss their work, promote collaborations, and foster a sense of community in this very active and growing area of research. We look forward to your participation at the 5th International Biocuration Conference. Kind regards, - The Biocuration 2012 Organizing Committee http://pir.georgetown.edu/biocuration2012.html From scott at scottcain.net Wed Sep 7 14:10:18 2011 From: scott at scottcain.net (Scott Cain) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:10:18 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] October GMOD Meeting in Toronto Message-ID: Hello, The early registration deadline for the October GMOD meeting in Toronto, Canada is approaching. Please register by September 13th to avoid the late registration fee. You can register here: http://gmod.eventbrite.com/ For information about the GMOD meeting please see the page at: http://gmod.org/wiki/October_2011_GMOD_Meeting In addition to the main meeting, there will be a free BioMart workshop on the following Friday, which you can also register for at the main meeting registration page. Thanks, Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Cain, Ph. D.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? scott at scottcain dot net GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/)? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? 216-392-3087 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research From cannataro at unicz.it Tue Sep 13 17:45:21 2011 From: cannataro at unicz.it (Mario Cannataro) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:45:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [BiO BB] CBMS 2012: Call for Special Tracks (Deadline September 20, 2011) In-Reply-To: References: <49488aa30fce78e7e8b644f2b6443229.squirrel@email.unicz.it> Message-ID: <0b90f151c841a8029f34aa95146d4a02.squirrel@email.unicz.it> I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ===================================================================== 25th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2012) June 20-22, Universit? Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy http://www.cbms2012.org/ Call for special tracks CBMS 2012 invites proposal for organization of special tracks that will be held in parallel with the general conference track. A special track consists of a group of papers in a sub- discipline of a medical informatics or a special field. 
Special tracks are an integral part of the CBMS conference since year 2005; their papers should report on significant unpublished work, and are required to meet the same standards, and are included in the conference proceedings. Organizer(s) of each Special Track (ST) are responsible for the quality of the papers in their track and manage the review process accordingly, assigning a Program Committee for the ST. If you are interested in organizing a ST, please submit your proposal before September 20, 2011 by email to info at cbms2012.org. Each proposal needs to include
 - ST title;
 - rough estimate of the expected size (usually, 4-5 papers per session, 1-3 sessions per track); - 
a brief biography of ST organizer(s) and list of ST program committee members;
 - a draft of ST call for papers. Please submit your special track proposal before the deadline of September 20th, 2011 to info at cbms2012.org **************************************** Prof. Mario Cannataro, Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, University "Magna Gr?cia" of Catanzaro, Viale Europa (Localit? Germaneto), 88100 CATANZARO, ITALY, Tel: 0961-369 4100, Fax: 0961-369 4073/4090, Email: cannataro at unicz.it, Web: http://bioingegneria.unicz.it/~cannataro/ **************************************** From srijith.skb at gmail.com Wed Sep 14 01:28:00 2011 From: srijith.skb at gmail.com (Srijith V. M.) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:58:00 +0530 Subject: [BiO BB] Dec 16,17: Next Generation Sequencing Meet at Trivandrum In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite you to the ? *Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics for Genomics & Healthcare *? meeting to be held on *Dec 16 th & 17 th, 2011* at the *Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Trivandrum , Kerala, India*. The meeting is jointly organized by *SciGenom Labs Pvt Ltd,* a genomics oriented R& D company based in Cochin, Kerala, India along with *Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum, India *and* Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.** * The intent of the meeting is to showcase the applications of Next Generation Sequencing and promote awareness on the technology among the research community in India, including students. Some of the distinguished speakers at the meeting include Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA, Dr Neeti Sanan Mishra, ICGEB, New Delhi, India, Dr Stephan Schuster, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA, Dr Arijit Mukhopadhyay, IGIB, New Delhi, India and Dr Yijun Ruan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore. The meeting also features a hands-on bioinformatics workshop for NGS data analysis. Please find attached a meeting announcement flyer, registration and sponsorship form for you convenience. *Early registration closes on Sep 30 th 2011*. To promote informal scientific interactions among participants and speakers, the organizers have limited the number of registrants the meeting plans to accept. So we strongly encourage you to register early to ensure a spot. For the most current information about the meeting please visit http://scigenomconferences.com. Feel free to forward this information to your colleagues and others who may be interested in the meeting. Look forward to your participation at the meeting. Should have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at * conferences at scigenom.com* Yours Sincerely Srijith V. M. Conference Coordinator SciGenom Conferences ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics for Genomics & Healthcare* *Dec 16-17th, 2011. Trivandrum, India* *Meeting Chair:* Dr Radhakrishna Pillai, Director, RGCB, Trivandrum, INDIA *Co-Chairs:* Dr George Thomas, Director, SciGenom Labs, Cochin, INDIA Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, INDIA Dr Sekar Seshagiri, Pr. Scientist, Genentech, California, USA ................................... Kindly do not print this email unless its IMPORTANT. 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From paolo.romano at istge.it Wed Sep 14 04:36:53 2011 From: paolo.romano at istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:36:53 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] NETTAB 2011 on Clinical Bioinformatics: Call for posters and participation Message-ID: <201109140836.p8E8atE5008543@clus2.istge.it> Dear all, I'm glad to remind you of next NETTAB 2011 workshop on Clinical Bioinformatics and to send you the related Call for submissions of posters. A Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics will later be published with a selection of best extended and revised versions of contributions, both oral communications and posters, presented at the workshop. If you are interested, as I hope, you are also welcome to subscribe to the low trafic list nettab-announce at istge.it. It is a moderated mailing list, devoted exclusively to announcements related to the NETTAB workshops, a series of events on new ICT tools and their applicability to biological research and bioinformatics that are held annually in Italy. Please subscribe at http://www.nettab.org/listsub.php . Best regards. Paolo Romano ==== NETTAB 2011 on "Clinical Bioinformatics" October 12-14, 2011 Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy http://www.nettab.org/2011/ NETTAB 2011 is the eleventh in a series of international workshops on Network Tools and Applications in Biology. NETTAB 2011 is focused on Clinical Bioinformatics and it is aimed at presenting the methods, tools and infrastructures that are nowadays available. It will also show some of the most interesting applications in this field. PROGRAMME Invited Speakers + Network Models of Mesophenotypes in Personal Genomics and Targeted Therapies Yves A. LUSSIER, Institute for Translational Medicine, University of Chicago, USA + From Omics to Systems Biology - an Approach to Individualized Medicine Thomas ILLIG, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum M?nchen, Neuherberg, Germany + ICT Architectures for Biobanks to Support Clinical Research Jan-Eric LITTON, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden + Computing our Patients' Future Using Data from our Healthcare Institutions Shawn N MURPHY, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Special Sessions + Why clinicians need e-Health Terry HANNAN, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia + Interoperability - HL7 Amnon SHABO, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel Tutorials + Data Warehouse Carlo COMBI, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy + Natural Language Processing Pierre ZWEIGENBAUM, LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France + Search Computing Marco MASSEROLI (to be confirmed), Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy CALL FOR POSTERS Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics: - Methods and Technologies: Data warehouse - Natural Language Processing - Data Mining - Ontologies, Interoperability, Standardisation - Search Computing - Decision Support - Tools: ICT architectures to support - Clinical research . BioBanks . Software for next generation sequencing - Data management and storage - Applications: Risk assessment . Diagnosis . Therapy planning- Drug Design Contributions length: - posters and demoes: no more than 3 pages Deadlines: ? September 16, 2011: Posters and demoes submission A slight delay may be accepted. Submit your contribution through the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2011 All contributions submitted to NETTAB 2011 will be invited to a restricted Call for full research papers to be published in a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics. REGISTRATION You can register to the NETTAB 2011 workshop by using the form at http://www.nettab.org/2011/rform.html Early registration ends within September 30, 2011. CONTACTS Visit the website http://www.nettab.org/2011/ Contact the organization by sending an email message to nettab2011 at unipv.it . Best regards. 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Mail is not a secure protocol, therefore IST will not be liable for interception or amendment of this message. ======= From georgina.moulton at manchester.ac.uk Fri Sep 16 05:21:46 2011 From: georgina.moulton at manchester.ac.uk (Georgina Moulton) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:21:46 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] **TUTORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Introduction to Implementing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)** Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Implementing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) BioHealth Informatics group at the University of Manchester are pleased to invite you to participate in their internationally renowned OWL Ontology tutorials. It is to be hosted at the University of Manchester on 8 and 9 November 2011. Abstract This two-day introductory 'hands-on' workshop aims to provide attendees with both the theoretical foundations and practical experience to begin building OWL ontologies using the latest version of the Prot?g?-OWL tools (Protege4). It is based on Manchester's well-known "Pizza tutorial" (see http://www.co-ode.org). This tutorial will cover the main conceptual parts of OWL through the hands-on building of an ontology of pizzas and their ingredients. A series of practical exercises take attendees through the process of conceptualizing the toppings found on a pizza; the entry of this classification into the Prot?g? environment; the description of many types of pizza. All this is set in the context of using automatic reasoning to check the consistency of the growing ontology and to use the reasoner to make queries about pizzas. Since 2003 this tutorial, in various forms, has been given over 30 times and been attended by hundreds of budding ontologists. Aims The aims of this tutorial are to: - understand the use of ontologies - understand statements written in OWL; - understand the role of automatic reasoning in ontology building; - build an ontology and use a reasoner to draw inferences based on that ontology; - gain experience in the Prot?g? 4 ontology building environment; - gain insight into how OWL can play a role in semantic metadata. Speakers Dr. Robert Stevens, is a Reader in BioHealth Informatics in the Bio and Health Informatics Group at the University of Manchester. His main areas of research interests include: (1) the development and use of ontologies to describe biology and to make knowledge about molecular biology computationally useful; (2) communal building of ontologies -- enabling domain experts to use the power of formal, expressive languages, such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL); and (3) semantic description of content through ontologies in e-Science research. Dr. Sebastian Brandt is Research Fellow based in the BioHealth Informatics Group in the School of Computer Science. Currently Sebastian is working on a number of different projects including and industrial collaboration project with Siemens Health Services USA and the EU- Network of Excellence on Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine. Dr. Georgina Moulton is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Northwest Institute of BioHealth Informatics (NIBHI). She develops and presents Continued Professional Development courses to national and international researchers from a range of disciplines. Georgina has a background in Bioinformatics and Biochemistry. Number of Places and Cost In total there are 17 places. The cost of the course is ?350 per day. Registration and Further Information To register and for further information please visit the website at: http://www.nweh.org.uk/ViewCourses.aspx