So many meetings... BIOINFORMATICS 2000 Elsinore, Denmark, April 27 - 30, 2000 Bioinformatics 2000 is the second major international bioinformatics meeting in Scandinavia. It is organized jointly by Swedish, Norwegian and Danish bioinformatics groups. The aim is to provide up-to-date accounts of new developments in bioinformatics, both from a basic science, technology development, and industrial point of view. The meeting (www.cbs.dtu.dk/bioinformatics2000/) will include sessions on (all speakers confirmed): ** BIOINFORMATICS AND THE HUMANE GENOME Gene Myers - Celera Ken Fasman - AstraZeneca Pharma Perspectives Claire O'Donovan - Human Proteomic Initiative Mathias Uhlen - Royal Insitute of Technology, Stockholm ** WHOLE CELL BIOINFORMATICS Bernhard Palsson - University of San Diego Aviv Regev - Tel Aviv University Christopher Ahlberg - Spotfire Beverly J. Paigen - The Jackson Laboratory ** ALGORITHMS Willie Taylor - MRC, NIMR Sean Eddy - Washington University Pavel Pevzner - University of Southern California David Hausler - Université du Quebec Martin Vingron - DKFZ, Heidelberg ** STRUCTURE FUNCTION PREDICTION David Eisenberg - UCLA David Baker - University of Washington Andrej Sali - Rockefeller University, New York Tim Bailey - San Diego Super Computer Center Mark Gerstein - Yale University ** DATABASES Amos Bairoch - Swissprot Rolf Apweiler - EMBL Outstation, EBI, Cambridge Michael Ashburner - Flybase, University of Cambridge Kenneth Paigen - Mouse Genome Database, The Jackson Laboratory Eric Neuman - Netgenetics, University of Wisconsin Tim Clark - Millenium Steve Gardner - Synomics The meeting will be held at Hotel Marienlyst in Elsinore in the north-east of Denmark, a location easily accessible from Copenhagen airport. The hotel is situated next to Kronborg Castle, the home of the "virtual" Danish Prince in Shakespeare's play Hamlet (see fp.image.dk/fpeifa/kronborg.htm). For more information and registration see: www.cbs.dtu.dk/bioinformatics2000/ or contact the conference secretary Johanne Keiding: e-mail: johanne at cbs.dtu.dk, phone: +45 45 25 24 77, fax: +45 45 93 15 85 We warmly welcome you to Elsinore! Soren Brunak & Anders Krogh Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark Gunnar von Heijne & Arne Elofsson Department of Biochemistry, Stockholm University Erik Sonnhammer & Bengt Persson Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Bo Servenius AstraZeneca R&D, Lund Inge Jonassen Department of Informatics, University of Bergen The groups colaborate in SocBiN - Society for Bioinformatics in the Nordic countries (see: www.socbin.org/) -------------------------- J. Steinbachs, PhD Computational Biologist Dept of Botany The Field Museum Chicago, IL 60605-2496 office: 312-665-7810 fax: 312-665-7158 http://cb.fmnh.org --------------------------