From hseker at dmu.ac.uk Thu Feb 7 16:33:59 2013
From: hseker at dmu.ac.uk (Dr. Huseyin Seker)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 21:33:59 +0000
Subject: [BiO BB] Invitation as a speaker for the conference
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Dear Colleague,
I am very pleased to invite you to attend and contribute to The International Conference on Applied Informatics for Health and Life Sciences (Istanbul, Turkey, 9-11 September 2013).
This is a unique event where health and life sciences are meeting informatics methods and tools to address to the problems and challenges that we face in the digital age and taking place where two continents (Europe and Asia) meet.
You can find details of the conference at http://genetikinfo.com/.
I will be very grateful if you could please pass the conference details to your students and colleagues who may also be interested in joining us.
Looking forward to meeting you in Istanbul in September 2013
Regards
Huseyin Seker (Conference Chair)
On behalf of the organisation committee
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Dr Huseyin Seker
Bio-Health Informatics Research Group
Centre for Computational Intelligence
Faculty of Technology
De Montfort University
Leicester
LE1 9BH
United Kingdom
E-mail: hseker at dmu.ac.uk
Visit Us at http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hseker/BHG
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From jaume.bacardit at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Feb 8 12:07:20 2013
From: jaume.bacardit at nottingham.ac.uk (Jaume Bacardit)
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:07:20 +0000
Subject: [BiO BB] PhD Studentship in Biodata Mining;
University of Nottingham and Crops for the Future Research Centre
Message-ID: <511530C8.5030801@nottingham.ac.uk>
[Apologies if you receive multiple times this announcement]
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* Title: Mining the gene networks involved in water-stress response in
bambara groundnut: a machine learning approach to translating traits in
model species to minor crops
* Location: UK and Malaysia campuses of the University of Nottingham
* Open to: any applicant with suitable qualifications. No nationality
restrictions
* Deadline for application: As soon as a suitable candidate is identified.
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Project description:
Underutilised species have the potential to help diversify agriculture
and to make food production more robust in the face of future
challenges. The ability to use information obtained in one species to
guide evaluation of another species is the underlying principle behind
the use of model systems.
The translation of data from models and major crop species to
underutilised species is essential if underutilised species are to make
a major contribution to Global Food Security or other end-uses. The
ability to identify key components of trait networks relies on
developing methods to search very large datasets, guided by knowledge
from other systems. Machine learning techniques have been shown to be
very competent at this task, as they are able to explore vast datasets
to identify key genes and their interactions. Moreover, they can easily
integrate multiple sources of knowledge and automatically identify the
relevant parts of the system being analysed.
This project will focus on the use of machine learning and
bioinformatics techniques to study the process of water-related stress
in bambara groundnut (an African legume) by contrasting datasets from
this species with the known networks of model organisms. This legume
grows successfully with varying access to water, cropping from the Namib
desert in Africa to the humid tropics in Indonesia.
Applicants should have a 2.1 or 1 class honours degree, or a combination
of qualifications and/or experience equivalent to that level and have
training in data mining techniques or bioinformatics. Previous biology
experience will be an advantage for Computer Science applicants. The
successful candidate should be confident working within and across a
range of activities, have excellent organisational abilities, be
enthusiastic and have good interpersonal skills.
The student will spend time at the UK and Malaysia campuses of the
University of Nottingham. At UK the student will be based at the
Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Systems (ICOS) research group
(http://icos.cs.nott.ac.uk) at the School of Computer Science. In
Malaysia, the student will be co-hosted by Biosciences at UNMC
(www.nottingham.edu.my/biosciences/index.aspx) and the new Crops for the
Future Research Centre currently under construction.
The student will be registered formally at The University of Nottingham
Malaysia Campus. The studentship provides full tuition fees and a
monthly stipend of 4400MYR (Malaysian Rynggit), for a duration of 3 years.
This studentship will remain open until a suitable candidate is found,
thus we recommend applying early.
Supervisor names and contact details :
Festo Massawe, School of Biosciences, UNMC (festo.massawe at nottingham.edu.my)
Jaume Bacardit, School of Computer Science, UoN
(jaume.bacardit at nottingham.ac.uk)
Sean Mayes, Plant and Crop Sciences, UoN (sean.mayes at nottingham.ac.uk))
Michael Holdsworth, Plant and Crop Sciences, UoN
(michael.holdsworth at nottingham.ac.uk) )
For informal enquiries about this studentship please contact
jaume.bacardit at nottingham.ac.uk - Web: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/
Please quote I.D. code Bam1-004 on all correspondence.
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Jaume Bacardit, PhD
Lecturer in Bioinformatics
University of Nottingham
Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Systems Research Group,
School of Computer Science, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK
URL: http://icos.cs.nott.ac.uk
Twitter: @ICO2S
Tel: +441158467044
Fax: +441159516292
Email: jaume _dot_ bacardit _at_ nottingham _dot_ ac _dot_ uk
Web: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb
Twitter: @jaumebp
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From admase at decsai.ugr.es Mon Feb 11 10:43:13 2013
From: admase at decsai.ugr.es (Antonio D. Masegosa)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:43:13 +0100
Subject: [BiO BB] CFP: Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies
for Optimization (NICSO 2013)
Message-ID: <51191191.9010108@decsai.ugr.es>
******** PLEASE APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE COPIES ********
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The VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies
for Optimization - NICSO 2013
September 2nd - 4th, 2013
Canterbury, United Kingdom
http://www.nicso2013.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS
* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Full paper submission: April 15, 2013
Acceptance notification: May 15, 2013
Final camera ready: June 5, 2013
NICSO: September 2-4, 2013
NICSO 2013 will be the sixth edition of the International Workshop on
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization. This workshop
aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners
from different disciplines in order to discuss recent advances and
exchange ideas on the current state of the art of cooperative problem
solving strategies.
All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers
from the Program Committee. Selection criteria will be based on
relevance, originality, significance, impact, technical soundness and
quality of the presentation. Contributions are expected to provide
original results, insights and experimental innovations. Manuscripts
must be in PDF, not exceeding 12 pages and conforming to the Latex
template at Instructions for Authors page for the book series Studies in
Computational Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/series/7092).
Contributions are welcome to submission through the system available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicso2013
The accepted papers will be published in the book series on STUDIES IN
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Springer)
(http://www.springer.com/series/7092) indexed by ISI Web of Science
Conference Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current
Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math:
MetaPress and Springerlink.
The authors of a selection of the best accepted papers will be invited
to revise and extend their contributions for publication in a special
issue in the JOURNAL OF MEMETIC COMPUTING (Springer)
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/12293).
Target topics (but not limited to):
Adaptive Behaviour
Ants Colonies
Amorphous Computing
Artificial Life
Artificial Immune Systems
Bioinformatics
Bio-inspired architecture
Complex Systems
Distributed Computing
Evolutionary Algorithms
Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Systems
Games and Game Theory
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Hyperheuristics
Membrane Computing
Memetic Algorithms
Quantum Computing
Software Self-Assembly
Systems Biology
Systems Coevolution
Swarm Intelligence
* Workshop Organizers *
Fernando Esteban Barril Otero
German Terrazas
Antonio D. Masegosa
* Steering Committee *
Natalio Krasnogor
David A. Pelta
* Programme Committee *
Alex Freitas, University of Kent, UK
Andr?s R. Masegosa, University of Granada, Spain
Bel?n Melian, University of La Laguna, Spain
Blas J. Galv?n, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Carlos Cruz Corona, University of Granada, Spain
Carlos Garc?a Mart?nez, Univeristy of C?rdoba, Spain
Cecilio Angulo, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, US
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Davide Anguita, University of Genova, Italy
Enrique Onieva, University of Deusto, Spain
Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Gabriela Ochoa, University of Stirling, UK
Gianluigi Folino, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy
Gisele Pappa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Giuseppe Scollo, University of Catania, Italy
J. Marcos Moreno, University of La Laguna, Spain
Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK
Jean-Louis Giavitto, Universit? d'Evry, France
Jim Smith, University of the West of England, UK
Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
Jorge Casillas, University of Granada, Spain
Jos? A. Moreno, University of La Laguna, Spain
Jos? Alejandro Castillo, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones
Nucleares, Mexico
Jos? Luis Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain
Jos? Manuel Cadenas, University of Murcia, Spain
Juan Jos? Merelo, University of Granada, Spain
Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mar?a Teresa Lamata, University of Granada, Spain
Marian Gheorghe, University of Sheffield, UK
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
Oliver Korb, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK
Paolo Arena, University of Catania, Italy
Ren? Doursat, Complex Systems Institute, France
Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy
Shengxiang Yang , University of Leicester, UK
Stefano Pizzuti, Energy, New Technologies & Envir. Agency, Italy
Steven Gustafson, General Electric Global Research Center, US
Thomas Stibor, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany
Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy
Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy
Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Kwang-Hyun Cho, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST), korea
From saidi34 at hushmail.com Tue Feb 12 12:43:00 2013
From: saidi34 at hushmail.com (saidi34 at hushmail.com)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:43:00 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] =?utf-8?q?A_Ph=2ED=2E_Student=E2=80=99s_CRY_for_Help?=
Message-ID: <20130212174300.3C938E6726@smtp.hushmail.com>
A Ph.D. Student?s CRY for Help
To: Prof. Hamid Arabnia, WORLDCOMP Coordinator, Professor of Computer Science, University of Georgia, USA
Prof. Hamid Arabnia,
I am a student from Africa and I am in the final stages of my Ph.D. work. I have a journal paper in ACM and a conference paper in WORLDCOMP. As per my university policy, I am required to have at least two research papers in peer-reviewed (refereed) international conferences or journals before I submit my synopsis/dissertation. While everything was fine, recently, WORLDCOMP was declared as a bogus conference with evidences and endorsements from scientists: https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 Also see http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com
Now, my university officials have stopped me from submitting the dissertation stating that WORLDCOMP is not peer-reviewed due to the evidences in these websites. They said that WORLDCOMP is completely fake and that?s why you have not responded to the open challenge at https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf or https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 I sent many emails to you requesting to respond to the open challenge and prove that WORLDCOMP is not fake so that I can show your response to my university officials and convince them and submit my dissertation. I also asked you to email me the reviews for my paper (I never received them, although your acceptance email stated that the paper was reviewed by two experts) but you are not responding. Recall that when I met you in WORLDCOMP, you offered me a reference letter and invited me to organize a session in the next conference and promised free registration for my next paper if I get at least five registered papers fr
om others. Now I am shocked with your silence. I am clueless on what to do as I will forfeit my student status unless I submit the dissertation soon. I am facing humiliation here.
I was attracted by the keynote speakers, sponsors, tutorials, and University of Georgia name at WORLDCOMP website. Now I feel that I made a very critical mistake by submitting to WORLDCOMP.
As the last resort, I am posting to this mailing list/forum (where WORLDCOMP details were published in the past I think) so that you understand the seriousness. I once again ask you to provide a detailed response at WORLDCOMP?s website and prove that it is not a fake (and also email me my paper reviews). I request you to focus on this issue than organizing the next conference (and create more victims like me). I hope you still have moral values. My elderly parents are dependent on me and I am crying for help. I openly beg your response!
Respectfully,
Saidi
(this is my nickname and I am using it to avoid further humiliation. I know that you will easily identify me from this nickname and from my background mentioned above).
To the forum/list owner: please understand my situation and publish this message and it will help other researchers to be more careful while choosing a conference. To the members: please help me getting a response from Prof. Arabnia.
From jprudhomme at healthtech.com Wed Feb 13 11:54:44 2013
From: jprudhomme at healthtech.com (James Prudhomme)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:54:44 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] Conference on Structure-Based Drug Design: Genome to Drug
Lead with Big Data Approach
Message-ID: <009201ce0a0a$d2f93060$78eb9120$@com>
******** PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR COLLEAGUES********
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CHI/Bio-IT World's 13th Annual Structure-Based Drug Design:
Genome to Drug Lead with Big Data
June 19-21, 2013
Boston, MA
http://www.healthtech.com/sbd
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At CHI/Bio-IT World's thirteenth annual Structure-Based Drug Design
conference, you will hear
about developments in insilico technology, as well as experimental
approaches useful for accurately
predicting and modeling the structures of proteins in structure-based drug
design efforts. In addition,
examples of successful applications of such technology approaches to
genome-to-drug lead
investigations will be addressed.
Keynote Presentation:
Drugging the Undruggable: Transforming Nature's ?-Helix into Breakthrough
Medicines
Tomi Sawyer, Ph.D., CSO, Aileron Therapeutics
Sessions:
* Structure-Based Drug Design for Kinase
* Drug Resistance
* Force Field Calculation
* GPCR
* Water & Solvation in Drug Design
* Fragment-Based Drug Design
* Protein-Protein Interaction
* Epigenetic Targeting
Scientific Advisory Board:
Dr. Don Jacobs, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Dr. Jon Mason, Heptares Therapeutics Ltd.
Dr. Stephan Schurer, University of Miami
Dr. Xiayang Qiu, Pfizer, Inc.
Dr. David Dalgarno, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Dr. Gergely Toth, University of Cambridge
Dr. Scot Mente, Pfizer Global R&D Groton Labs
CALL FOR POSTERS:
CHI invites researchers to present a poster to expose their research to its
delegates. Accepted posters
will be included in the conference proceedings.
http://www.healthtech.com/Conferences_Overview.aspx?id=88586
DOWNLOAD PDF BROCHURE:
http://www.healthtech.com/Conferences_Content.aspx?ekfrm=122075
HOW TO REGISTER:
Web:
https://chidb.com/register/2013/sbd/reg.asp
Call: 781-972-5400
Email: reg at healthtech.com
From zola at icis.pcz.pl Wed Feb 20 10:42:47 2013
From: zola at icis.pcz.pl (Jaroslaw Zola)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:42:47 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [BiO BB] [CfP] 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational
Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)
Message-ID: <20130220154247.D76D05CAB8@icis.pcz.pl>
3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational
Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)
June 12-14, New Orleans, LA, USA
Advances in high-throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and mass
spectrometry are profoundly transforming life sciences, resulting in the
collection of unprecedented amounts of biological and medical data. Using this
data to advance our knowledge about fundamental biological processes and
improve human health requires novel computational models and advanced analysis
algorithms. IEEE ICCABS aims to bring together leading academic and industry
researchers to discuss the latest advances in computational methods for bio and
medical sciences.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Biological modeling and simulation
* Biomedical image processing
* Biomedical data and literature mining
* Computational genetic epidemiology
* Computational metabolomics
* Computational proteomics
* Databases and ontologies
* Gene regulation
* Genome analysis
* Health Informatics
* High-performance bio-computing
* Immunoinformatics
* Molecular evolution
* Population genomics
* Sequence analysis
* Structural bioinformatics
* Systems biology
* Transcriptomics
Submission Instructions:
Authors are invited to electronically submit extended abstracts in PDF format
by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs13.
Submissions should be prepared using IEEE Computer Society's Word/LaTeX
templates available at http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting and
should not exceed 6 pages in length. Accepted abstracts will be published in
the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Special issues of journals on selected
extended abstracts are under negotiation. A limited number of student travel
awards will be made (conditional upon NSF support).
Key Dates:
Papers Submission: April 5, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2013
Author Registration: May 20, 2013
Camera-ready Papers Due: May 27, 2013
General Chairs:
Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State University)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut)
Program Chairs:
Vladimir Filkov (UC Davis)
Knut Reinert (Freie Universitat Berlin)
More information at: http://www.iccabs.org/
From isbra2013 at GMAIL.COM Mon Feb 25 10:58:21 2013
From: isbra2013 at GMAIL.COM (ISBRA PC Chairs)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:58:21 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] Call for Abstracts: Deadline April 1
Message-ID:
Dear colleague,
ISBRA 2013 is now seeking submissions for Short Abstracts, with a deadline
of April 1.
The conference provides a pathway to publication of a manuscript for
research submitted in the short abstract form. Accepted short abstracts
will be distributed electronically, and selected for either oral or poster
presentation at the symposium. The authors of selected short abstracts will
be invited to submit full versions to a peer-reviewed supplement to be
published after the symposium by BMC
Bioinformatics.
Submissions may be made through the EasyChair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbra2013. Instructions and
format for preparation of short abstracts are available at that site.
Online registration for the conference is now available at
http://isbra2013.uncc.edu. We look forward to seeing you at ISBRA 2013!
Cynthia Gibas, General Chair
Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
*
*
*Call for Papers***
*9th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications*
May 20-22, 2013, Charlotte, NC
http://isbra2013.uncc.edu
The *International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and
Applications* (ISBRA)
provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers,
developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and
computational biology and their applications. Submissions presenting
original research are solicited in all areas of bioinformatics and
computational biology, including the development of experimental or
commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Biomedical databases and data integration
High-performance bio-computing
Biomolecular imaging
High-throughput sequencing data analysis
Bio-ontologies
Molecular evolution
Comparative genomics and phylogenomics
Molecular modeling and simulation
Computational genetic epidemiology
Pattern discovery and classification
Computational proteomics
Population genetics
Data mining and visualization
Software tools and applications
Gene expression analysis
Structural biology
Genome analysis
Systems biology
We seek two categories of submissions: *extended abstracts* of up to 12
pages in Springer LNCS format, and *short abstracts* of up to 4 pages. Both
types of submissions must be made electronically by following the
instructions at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbra2013.
Submission
implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the
symposium.
Accepted extended abstracts will be published prior to the symposium in
Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) series and
presented orally at the symposium. Full versions of selected extended
abstracts presented at the symposium will be invited to a peer-reviewed
special issue of *IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics* *.* Accepted short
abstracts will be distributed electronically and selected for either oral
or poster presentation at the symposium. The authors of selected short
abstracts will be invited to submit full versions to a peer-reviewed
supplement to be published after the symposium by BMC
Bioinformatics
. Per current BMC policies, full versions of extended abstracts published
in LNBI are *not* eligible for publication in the BMC supplement.
*KEY DATES*
*Extended Abstracts (12 pages)*
*Short Abstracts (4 pages)***
*Submission deadline*
* February 6, 2013*
*April 1, 2013*
*Notification of acceptance*
*February 27, 2013*
* April 15, 2013*
*Final version due*
* March 8, 2013*
* April 22, 2013*
*Steering Committee** ***
*General Chair*
*Program Chairs*
*Dan Gusfield *(UC Davis)
*Ion Mandoiu* (UConn)
*Yi Pan* (GSU), Chair
*Marie-France Sagot* (INRIA)
*Alexander Zelikovsky (*GSU)
*Cynthia Gibas *(UNCC)
*Finance Chair*
*Larry Mays* (UNCC)
*Local Arrangements Chair*
*Zhengchang Su* (UNCC)**
*Zhipeng Cai *(GSU)
*Oliver Eulenstein* (Iowa)
*Daniel Janies* (UNCC)
*Daniel Schwartz *(UConn)
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From R.Beynon at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Feb 26 03:37:27 2013
From: R.Beynon at liverpool.ac.uk (Beynon, Rob)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:37:27 +0000
Subject: [BiO BB] A new Open Source project, Kickstarter campaign
Message-ID: <6706B7CAB3880F40A7B226F437512F9253F9148D@BHEXMBX1.livad.liv.ac.uk>
I would like to bring this to your attention (apologies if it has already been done).
Livecode (previously incarnated as Hypercard, or Metacard or Revolution) is undergoing a radical change ? a move to make the platform Open Source. I have used this environment for amateur hacking tasks for many years, and believe that it has much more potential than I could ever realise. It is a platform for deployment across all systems (linux, mac, Windows, mobile) and is highly object oriented and starts from a GUI design.
The originators of LiveCode (based in Edinburgh) are running a KickStarter campaign to make their platform open source. If you are interested in software development, in education or in open source GUI wrappers, LiveCode may be of interest.
Hence, I am bringing this to your attention. The campaign has 2 days to run, and is about 15% short of target. Have a look, and if you see the potential for an open source variant, please consider support.
I should also make clear I have no affiliation with LiveCode, nor do I stand to gain in any way from this posting.
I hope it is within the spirit of the open source movement to bring this to your attention.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode
Prof R J Beynon | Royal Society Industrial Fellow | Protein Function Group
Institute of Integrative Biology
University of Liverpool
Crown Street | Liverpool | L69 7ZB
+44 151 794 4312
r.beynon at liv.ac.uk
http://www.liv.ac.uk/pfg