On the European side of things this summer, we have the Global Grid Forum (http://www.globalgridforum.org; July 21-24, 2002) and IEEE's High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11 http://www.hpdc.org; July 24-26, 2002). Both are in Edinburgh, UK. I will be presenting a summary tutorial: "Bioinformatics for Computer Professionals" at HPDC (which would probably bore the pants off of anyone on this list). Otherwise, there tends to not be too much involvement from the Bioinformatics community at these events. Maybe we should change that. :) -Chris