From sankar.achuth at gmail.com Sun Jul 1 01:45:27 2012 From: sankar.achuth at gmail.com (Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:15:27 +0530 Subject: [BiO BB] Seminar on BIOLOGICAL DATA CURATION Message-ID: Dear All, DBT- BIF centre at the Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Kerala [State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (SIUCEB)], jointly with SciGenom Labs Pvt. Ltd., a genomics oriented R&D company based in Cochin, Kerala, is organizing a *one day seminar on* *Biological Data Curation*. There is a hands on session about *GBK parser using Bioperl* in this seminar. The idea behind the hands on session is to expose the participants to how to curate the biological data via custom made scripts. The classes are handled by expert bioinformaticians from *Scigenom Labs*. The seminar is scheduled on * 07.07.2012.* *For more details please visit: http://dcb.res.in/. *** * *-- *Dr Achuthsankar S Nair *??. ??????? ??????? ??? ?????? Head, Dept of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Director, State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics *University of Kerala*, Trivandrum 695581, Kerala, INDIA Tel (O) 0471-2308759 (R) 0471-*3192346* http://dcb.keralauniversity.ac.in www.achu.keralauniversity.edu GREEN TIP #1: Avoid Plastic-wrapped Boques - Handful of jasmine flowers poured into the hands is more touching and green From gary.bader at utoronto.ca Tue Jul 3 16:46:30 2012 From: gary.bader at utoronto.ca (Gary Bader) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:46:30 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] Registration is now open for COMBINE 2012. Aug.15-19 in Toronto, Canada Message-ID: Hello, The Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats, initially in Systems Biology and related fields. The Annual COMBINE (Computational Modeling in Biology Network) meeting is a workshop-style event with oral presentations, posters and breakout sessions. The meeting provides an opportunity for those involved in many related standardization and software efforts in systems biology to meet and discuss their efforts, with the aim of working more closely together to ensure smooth interoperability between systems. http://co.mbine.org/events/COMBINE_2012 COMBINE 2012 will take place at The Donnelly Centre building at the University of Toronto from Wednesday August 15 to Sunday Aug. 19, 2012, immediately preceding the 13th International Conference on Systems Biology (http://icsb2012toronto.com/). The COMBINE conference location is a short walk from ICSB events and COMBINE 2012 is an official satellite meeting of ICSB, so you can follow the same travel and accommodation instructions for ICSB and use the same hotel discounts. Registration for COMBINE is $125 (Canadian) to cover costs associated with the meeting, including a workshop dinner and catering. We hope to see you there! From grlmc at urv.cat Wed Jul 11 09:37:47 2012 From: grlmc at urv.cat (GRLMC) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:37:47 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] TPNC 2012: call for posters Message-ID: The 1st International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2012) invites authors to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2012 will be held in Tarragona (Spain) on 2-4 October, 2012. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2012/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with the conference participants, at the same time permitting in-depth discussion. TOPICS We encourage authors to submit presentations that discuss novel work in progress on: - nature-inspired models of computation, - synthesis of nature by means of computation, - nature-inspired materials, - information processing in nature, - applications of natural computing. Posters do not need to present final research results. Work that is being developed and may lead to new interesting ideas is welcome. KEY DATES Submission deadline: August 26, 2012 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 2, 2012 SUBMISSION Please submit an abstract through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2012 The abstract should contain the title, author(s) and detailed affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not be published in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2012. However, there will be a specific section in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2013 reserved for those accepted papers that derive from 2012 posters. REGISTRATION Authors of accepted posters have to register to the conference. Their registration fare, however, will be very reduced: 135 Euro (one third of the early fare for PhD students). From cannataro at unicz.it Wed Jul 11 16:04:27 2012 From: cannataro at unicz.it (Mario Cannataro) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:04:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [BiO BB] Deadline Extended: ACM-BCB Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) In-Reply-To: <29b4f0ef371de5adb52505f83a1d153a.squirrel@email.unicz.it> References: <49488aa30fce78e7e8b644f2b6443229.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <0b90f151c841a8029f34aa95146d4a02.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <637f7d51898906671cc8ef02e2be2ccc.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <2bfa571d2421ca5842919c2d8038f74e.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <057ca61063d2df86dbfedb3f33fe06f8.squirrel@email.unicz.it> <29b4f0ef371de5adb52505f83a1d153a.squirrel@email.unicz.it> Message-ID: I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ===================================================================== 1st International Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/parbio2012/ held in conjunction with ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB) October 7-10, 2012 Orlando, Florida, USA http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2012/ DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: JULY 18, 2012 ===================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ===================================================================== Due to the availability of high-throughput platforms (e.g. next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry) and clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging), a recent trend in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine is the increasing production of experimental and clinical data. Considering the complex analysis pipeline of the biomedical research, the bottleneck is more and more moving toward the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks. While Parallel Computing and Grid Computing may offer the computational power and the storage to face this overwhelming availability of data, Cloud Computing is a key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall model of biomedical research and health provision. Grid infrastructures may offer the data storage needed to store the huge experimental and biomedical data, while parallel computing can be used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel BLAST, mpiBLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). In such a scenario, novel parallel architectures (e.g. CELL processors, GPUs, FPGA, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and exploration of large amounts of data. On the other hand, these technologies yet require great investments by biomedical and clinical institutions and are based on a traditional model where users often need to be aware and face different management problems, such as hardware and software management, data storage, software ownership, and not scalable costs (different professional-level applications in the biomedical domain have high starting costs that prevent many small laboratories to use them). The Cloud Computing technology, that is able to offer scalable costs and increased reachability, availability and easiness of application use, and also the possibility to enforce collaboration among scientists, is already changing the business model in different domains and now it starts to be used also in the bioinformatics (see for instance the recent JCVI Cloud Bio-Linux initiative) and biomedical domains. However, many problems remain to be solved, such as availability and safety of the data, privacy-related issues, availability of software platforms for rapid deployment, execution and billing of biomedical applications. The goal of ParBio is to bring together scientists in the fields of high performance and cloud computing, computational biology and medicine, to discuss, among the others, the organization of large scale biological and biomedical databases, the parallel/service-based implementation of bioinformatics and biomedical applications, and problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud. The workshop will focus on research issues, problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud, as well as on the opportunity to define guidelines and minimum requirements for a Biomedical Cloud. Moreover, the workshop will discuss about parallel and distributed management and analysis of molecular and clinical data, that more and more need to be integrated and analysed in a joint way. TOPICS OF INTEREST The main themes and research topics will regard the applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine, as well as Cloud Computing opportunities and problems for bioinformatics and biomedical applications - Large scale biological and biomedical databases - Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine - Integration and analysis of molecular and clinical data - Parallel bioinformatics algorithms - Parallel visualization and exploration of omics and clinical data - Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Computing environments for large scale collaboration - Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine - Emerging architectures and programming models for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Parallel processing of bio-signals - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes - Cloud Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Cloud Computing for health systems - Privacy issues for Cloud-based biomedical applications - (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine PROGRAM The workshop will take place on (To Be Announced). It is scheduled as full-day. The program is not available yet. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION ParBio 2012 welcomes original submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by another conference or journal. Papers should not exceed 8 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see ACM templates - http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. All submitted papers will be reviewed by ParBio?s technical program committee. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the workshop proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. Authors of selected papers may be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit an online ACM Copyright Form. Authors will be contacted by ACM requesting this information. Authors should submit papers using the Easy Chair System (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parbio2012). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: EXTENDED TO JULY 18, 2012 Notifications sent to authors: August 8, 2012 Camera-ready papers due: August 16, 2012 Conference: October 7-10, 2012 WORKSHOP ORGANIZER Mario Cannataro, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy PROVISIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) 1. Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 2. David A. Bader, College of Computing, Georgia University of Technology, USA 3. Ignacio Blanquer; Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain 4. Vincent Breton, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Clermont-Ferrand, France 5. Marian Bubak; AGH University of Science and Technology, Krak?w, Poland 6. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 7. Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA 8. Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK 9. Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK 10. Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA 11. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy 12. Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy 13. Vicente Hern?ndez, Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain 14. Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 15. Maria Mirto, University of Salento, Italy 16. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy 17. Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 18. Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 19. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy 20. Tony Solomonides, University of West of England, Bristol, UK 21. Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy 22. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 23. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5x1000 Sostieni la Ricerca e le iniziative dell'Universit? degli Studi Magna Graecia di Catanzaro. Apponi la tua firma nel riquadro della dichiarazione dei redditi alla voce "Finanziamento agli enti della ricerca scientifica e della universit?", sia che si tratti del Modello 730, del Modello Unico 2012 oppure del CUD 2012. Trascrivi il codice fiscale dell'Universit?: 97026980793 From jlloret at dcom.upv.es Wed Jul 18 19:59:00 2012 From: jlloret at dcom.upv.es (Jaime Lloret Mauri) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:59:00 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] CFP: ComManTel 2013 - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - January 21-24, 2013 Message-ID: <201207182359.q6INx0W2003150@smtp.upv.es> /* Apologies for cross-postings */ ============================================================================= Call for Papers The International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel 2013) January 21-24, 2013 Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam "The Dawn of New Technology" http://commantel.net/2013/ ============================================================================= ComManTel 2013 is organized by the Radio & Electronics of HCM City (REH) and Duy Tan University. ComManTel 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society Vietnam Chapter. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore? (IEEE Digital Library). **Scope and Motivation** You are cordially invited to participate in and attend The International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel 2013) to be held in the Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on January 21-24, 2013. The conference is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in all types of Computing, Management and Telecommunications. We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers on the current state of research in Computing, Management and Telecommunications and related issues. **Topics of Interest** The ComManTel 2013 seeks original contributions in, but not limited to, the following tracks topical areas: * Computing Technologies - Parallel and distributing computing - High-performance computing - Grid computing - Could computing - Green computing - Ubiquitous computing - Peer-to-peer and cluster computing - Software engineering and knowledge engineering - Artificial intelligence and machine learning - Knowledge discovery and data mining - Virtual reality and visualization - Biomedical informatics and computation - Mobile learning applications - Mobile development applications - Computing applications in education - Computing applications and architectures in health - Pervasive and wearable computing - Web-based computing and services - Wireless and mobile computing - Multimedia computing applications and architectures - Security and trust computing - Computing operating systems * Information Technology Management - Information management - Innovation and technology management - Knowledge management - Project management - Policy management - Engineering management and applications - Theories and methodologies of enterprise management - System engineering and operational research - E-business and E-government - Business intelligence and web services - Logistics and supply chain management - Ethics in technology management - Resource management - Strategic management - Supply change management - Systems management * Telecommunications Systems and Networks - Cooperative communications - Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access - Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques - Signal detection and parameter estimation - Signal, image and video processing - Decoding and encoding techniques - Multi-carrier systems, including OFDM - Multiple-input multiple-output techniques - Security of telecommunications - Ultra-wideband and spread spectrum communications - Cellular systems, 2G/2.5G/3G/4G and beyond - WiMAX, LTE, WMAN, and other emerging broadband wireless networks - Body-based wireless networks - Wireless networks for underwater and UAVs communications - Delay tolerant wireless networks - Wireless ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks - Peer-to-peer wireless networks - Wireless Internet and mobile IP - Routing and multicasting protocols - Resource management, mobility management, and admission control **Submission Guidelines** Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Authors must submit their work electronically through EDAS system at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=12451. The paper should have a maximum of 6 pages in the IEEE format (available at http://commantel.net/2013). Papers must be submitted in PDF format only. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore? (IEEE Digital Library). High quality papers will be invited to be submitted to one of 3 Journal Special Issues: JoC,?FTRA Publishing,?http://www.ftrai.org/joc IJITCC Journal, InderScience,?http://www.inderscience.com/ijitcc Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer:?http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/12083 **Important Dates** Submission of full papers: August 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2012 Camera ready papers and registration: November 30, 2012 Main Conference: January 21-24, 2013 **Orgnization Committee** Honorary Conference Chair Nguyen Minh Duc REV Vice President, REH Secretary-General, Chairman of ITC College of HCM City, Vietnam General Chairs Khaled Ben Letaief University of Hong Kong, China Honorary Technical Program Chair Sherman Shen University of Waterloo, Canada Tran Xuan Nam Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam Technical Program Chairs Trung Q. Duong (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Yan Zhang (Simula Research Inc., Norway) Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, KSA) Publicity Co-Chairs Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao (Posts & Telecom. Inst. Tech. (PTIT), Vietnam) Nguyen Tuong Duy (Vietnam Aviation Academy, Vietnam) Chadi Assi (University of Concordia, Canada) Jaime Lloret Mauri (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain) Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA) Publication Committee Co-Chairs Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University, Qatar) Le Nguyen Bao (Duy Tan University, Vietnam) Local Organization Co-Chairs Trung Q. Duong (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Vo Nguyen QuocBao (Posts & Telecom. Inst. Tech. (PTIT), Vietnam) Registration Chair Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, KSA) From adriandwalker at gmail.com Fri Jul 20 15:34:03 2012 From: adriandwalker at gmail.com (Adrian Walker) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:34:03 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] System for Crowdsourcing Data Analysis [Was: position in cancer informatics] Message-ID: Hi All, Stefan Decker wrote: > The discussion seem to point to a deeper question: how to enable crowd > sourcing of the analysis of these kind of data sets? This may involve > running of analysis code or maybe even manual work. > What kind of computational infrastructure would we need to enable > this? And how do we validate and aggregate results? There is a system online [1] for crowdsourcing data analysis knowledge in Executable English , with examples, such as [2]. The knowledge is used to answer questions over web databases, with English explanations of the results for validation. In some cases, the explanations can be used as plans. [3] is a short overview paper, and besides the live system [1], there are several presentations, movies etc on the site. Apologies if you have seen this before, and thanks for comments. -- Adrian [1] Internet Business Logic A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English Q/A over SQL and RDF Online at www.reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free, and there are no advertisements [2] www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/MedMine2.agent [3] www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Executable_English.pdf On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM, David Booth oth.org > wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 10:22 +0100, Stefan Decker wrote: > > The discussion seem to point to a deeper question: how to enable crowd > > sourcing of the analysis of these kind of data sets? This may involve > > running of analysis code or maybe even manual work. > > What kind of computational infrastructure would we need to enable > > this? And how do we validate and aggregate results? > > Unfortunately, in the USA at least, the biggest barriers are not > technical, but social, because: (a) health information privacy laws such > as HIPAA > http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/ > make it difficult or impossible to publish the raw data that would be > most useful for research; and (b) researchers do not have the incentive > to publish their data that might allow other researchers to make > discoveries. > > There is a tension between privacy and the usefulness of data for > research, because full de-identification removes information that can be > critical to determining cause and effect, such as dates, times and > locations. > > We need better ways -- both bottom-up, such as http://weconsent.us/, and > top-down, such as legal changes -- to both encourage the availability of > research data and to facilitate appropriate access to it, such as > establishing well-defined tiers of access for different purposes. > > We need technical solutions that will help us work through and around > these social barriers. > > > -- > David Booth, Ph.D. > http://dbooth.org/ > > Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily > reflect those of his employer. > > > From sankar.achuth at gmail.com Tue Jul 24 22:50:20 2012 From: sankar.achuth at gmail.com (Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:20:20 +0530 Subject: [BiO BB] MPhil in (i) Drug Design; (ii) Bioinformatics @U of Kerala Message-ID: Can't view images? View as Web page . [image: DCB: Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics] Applications Invited: MPhil in Bioinformatics & MPhil in CADD @ UoK Dear Fellow Academic, Warm greetings from Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics! We are happy to announce that the admissions to the Full-time MPhil programmes, Bioinformatics 2012 and Computer Aided Drug Discovery 2012 are open now @ University of Kerala. These interdisciplinary MPhil programmes which are often seen as training for PhD, are designed for students who intend to pursue additional academic degrees and students who seek post masters credentials to further their career goals. We conduct the programmes with the aim of fostering students whose theoretical as well as practical exposures in the fields of Bioinformatics and Computer Aided Drug Designing transcends both methodical and disciplinary boundaries. The world-leading high quality-innovative MPhil programmes offered by Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (DCB), for the brightest and best students, are the first of its kind in India. These one-year (2 semester programmes) are open to Computer Science, Life Science and allied masters degree holders (MSc, MTech, MCA, MSc Agriculture, MPharm, MD etc). What is more, all MPhils will be awarded in the faculty from which candidates have their masters degree. If you have a masters degree in a different subject, MPhil in Bioinformatics will be considered as degrees in those disciplines for job-appointments! What makes our MPhil Bioinformatics programme 'Unique'? Bioinformatics, a relatively new revolutionary approach to science and medicine, is a blend of biological science and computing techniques which applies specifically at sub-cellular or molecular levels. Our Bioinformatics- MPhil programme combines many advanced theoretical concepts and computational as well as practical skills to acquire, analyze and process the biological data to address significant problems in the field of Bioinformatics. We aim to ensure the students with a fundamental foundation that will help improve life science knowledge at the molecular level from both computational and biological perspectives. How the students will be benefited by MPhil Bioinformatics? - Gain moderate programmeming skills of relevance in processing bioinformatics data. - Acquirement of necessary mathematical knowledge that underpins various concepts in bioinformatics. - Acquirement of an awareness in many advanced genomic and proteomic topics in bioinformatics and allied areas including systems and synthetic biology. - Develop critical thinking skills that will enable them to analyze competing perspectives and integrate various disciplines across academic boundaries. - Acquire the background necessary for entry into Ph.D. programmes in Bioinformatics. Our 'special' MPhil programme in CADD for those interested in 'Pharmacogenomics' MPhil in Computer Aided Drug Designing introduces students many latest tools and techniques in rational design of drug molecules which helps in advancing the frontiers of Pharmacogenomics. It takes students across a wide spectrum of drug designing solutions through progressive simulations, dockings, comprehensive illustrations, and detailed exercises, thereby making the programme an ideal solution for both the novice and the advanced learner. MPhil CADD imparts: - Key knowledge about various diseases, causes and drugs from theoretical, practical and commercial perspectives. - Fundamental knowledge in Pharmacogenomics. - Core principles of molecular modeling and docking. To enhance your career and to meet your career goals MPhil holders who have masters in Computing/IT are suitable for employment in IT sectors which take up software development work in Bioinformatics. These include TCS which has a Molecular Biology Division which develops the Bio-suite software, SciGemome @ kochi, C-DAC, the premier supercomputing institution of the country which has a bioinformatics division in Pune. MPhil graduates with masters in Life Science can look for openings in Research & Development institutions in life science area, all over the world. Institutions in India like RGCB, IGIB, CCMB, IIMT etc also have Bioinformatics requirements. For CADD people, the fast growing Pharma field is emerging into a major employer as it is increasingly using computational tools for molecular drug designing. Moreover, the door to new research careers is also open to MPhil holders. They can register for PhD at the University of Kerala without any entrance test and are eligible to submit their thesis in a minimum time of two years. How to get an entry to the MPhil programme Only 10 seats each are available for both MPhil Bioinformatics and MPhil CADD. Students are admitted to both MPhil programmes separately, and admission will be based on the marks scored in masters degree and the entrance examination conducted by University of Kerala which will be held on 06th October 2012. Entrance Examination will have 100 objective type questions: 20 questions on computer science field; 20 questions on general Biology, 60 questions on logic & numeric reasoning. There will be a single exam for both streams with additional questions for those who apply for both MPhils. *Index Marks for Ranking:* 50% Aggregate in Master's Degree; 50% Entrance Marks. The Semester fee is Rs. 15,000 and for reservation candidates we follow Govt. of Kerala norms. Important Dates to Remember Last date for receiving applications : 10 August 2012 Date for Entrance examination : 06 October 2012 Venue : University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus, T'puram Classes commence on : November 2012 (tentative) Application Form and Fees Details Download Application Form - Rs. 500 for Sponsored category - Rs. 250 for General category - Rs. 125 for SC/ ST students Note: Separate fees to be paid for students who are appearing for entrance test for both MPhil in Bioinformatics & MPhil in CADD. Applicants may remit the following application fees and attach DD/Chalan Receipt with the duly filled-in application form. DD may be obtained from State Bank of Travancore/ State Bank of India or from State Co-Operative Banks, in favor of Finance Officer, University of Kerala payable at State Bank of Travancore - KUOC Branch, Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram. Payments may also be made directly to the University through its cash counters at Palayam or Kariavattom, and Chalan receipt obtained. Payments can also be made directly through FRIENDS centers, available in all districts of Kerala. Feel the difference @ DCB In DCB, you can find an academically rigorous and intellectually stimulating environment, where we promote development of creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. We nurture a learning environment rooted on trust, mutual respect, compassion, responsibility and integrity. Our students can experience here a free atmosphere that allows them to develop their social skills through classroom cooperation, group projects, team discussions, and the development of friendly relationships with faculties and fellow students. We foster our students to act knowledgeably, to lead thoughtfully, to share generously, and to contribute meaningfully. We have an active placement cell through which our students can expect the freedom to develop their career and the support with which to do it. DCB has been successful in creating a research ambiance which molds most of its masters or MPhil students to turn to research. So far 23 of its MPhil students have taken up doctoral research at DCB or elsewhere. We organize a wide variety of seminars, symposia and workshops. 'Bioinformatica Indica', an international bi-annual event is its flagship event in this regard. We also arrange programmes to promote creative and scientific temper in the younger generation. The Department is situated in the beautiful and green Kariavattom Campus made greener by the DCB's "Trees for 2100 AD" initiative. Dear MPhil Aspirant, Gear up! It's time to step into DCB. The whole DCB family welcomes you! We wish everyone the best in their academics! All the best for the entrance exam. More Resources: MPhil. Bioinformatics Syllabus Download PDF MPhil. CADD Syllabus Download PDF Model Question Paper for Entrance Download PDF For more details, we welcome you to meet us online @ DCB - Official Website Kindly do not send unsolicited applications. You can send email to admission.dcb at gmail.com or you can reach us through the post in the below address. *Head of the Department* Dept. of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (SIUCEB) University of Kerala, North Campus - Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam India - 695581 | Call: +91 471 2308759 We are looking forward to see many of you in DCB in November. Best regards, *DCB Family* -- *Dr Achuthsankar S Nair *??. ??????? ??????? ??? ?????? Head, Dept of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Director, State Inter-University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics *University of Kerala*, Trivandrum 695581, Kerala, INDIA Tel (O) 0471-2308759 (R) 0471-*3192346* http://dcb.keralauniversity.ac.in www.achu.keralauniversity.edu GREEN TIP #1: Avoid Plastic-wrapped Boques - Handful of jasmine flowers poured into the hands is more touching and green