The BIOSTEC 2012 multi-conference is taking place in Portugal in February. This is a multidisciplinary set of joint conferences, organized by an engineering group that is interested in Biomedical themes. BIOINFORMATICS 2012 is part of it. There is a special session on Bioinformatics Training. The Call for Papers (short position papers) is here: http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org/special_sessions.asp Pedro Fernandes