ISMB/ECCB 2007

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Booth 1

Hewlett-Packard Company
www.hp.com/go/lifesciences

HP innovations enable researchers to focus on what matters to them – science. HP provides expertise, innovative products, services and partnerships to help you achieve scientific breakthroughs. HP offers a choice of industry-standard, high-performance solutions to give you the flexibility and confidence to implement the technology you need to achieve success.
For more information: www.hp.com/go/lifesciences

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Booth 2 & 3

SGI
www.sgi.com

SGI delivers a complete range of high-performance server and storage solutions along with industry-leading professional services and support that enable its customers in to overcome the challenges of complex data-intensive workflows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation and information transformation. SGI helps customers solve their computing challenges whether it’s enhancing the quality of life through drug research, designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and airplanes, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, or helping enterprise manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be found at www.sgi.com.

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Booth 4

IBM
www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing

IBM’s Computational Biology research and its Blue Gene petaflop computing initiative spans pattern recognition in sequences, structures and processes, the studying of systems ranging from single protein molecules through to complex molecular interactions, and the data analysis, interpretation and reverse-engineering of complex disease-lifestyle-genomic interactions for fuller biological understanding.

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Booth 5

Synamatix
www.synamatix.com

Synamatix is a bioinformatics company focused upon leveraging its core SynaBASE technology for acceleration and enhancement of sequence analysis. Software applications built upon the SynaBASE structured-network pattern database platform are able to process and analyse data from 2nd generation sequencers faster than it is generated.

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Booth 6 & 7

Taylor & Francis
www.crcpress.com

Chapman & Hall/CRC, a member of the Taylor & Francis group, is a premier publisher of books, journals and electronic databases in the sciences. Stop by our booth to peruse our large collection of titles in computational biology and bioinformatics, including Uri Alon’s “Introduction to Systems Biology”, and take advantage of the convention discount. For more information about our company visit www.crcpress.com.

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Booth 8

Accelrys Inc.
www.accelrys.com

Accelrys delivers superior scientific software solutions that help to transform the discovery and development of innovative pharmaceuticals, chemicals and materials.

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Booth 9

Biomax Informatics AG
www.biomax.com

Biomax Informatics AG provides bioinformatics tools and services for knowledge management (BioXM software), workflow-driven, customizable sequence analysis (Pedant-Pro suite), and data management and retrieval (BioRS system). The innovative BioXM Knowledge Management Framework is a system for high-throughput knowledge data management, semantic integration, and modeling of scientific relationships and processes.

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Booth 10

Apple Inc.
www.apple.com/science

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with award-winning computers and the Mac OS X operating system. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with the iPod and iTunes, and will enter the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.

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Booth 11

Cambridge University Press
www.cambridge.org

Cambridge University Press advances learning, knowledge and research worldwide. It is an integral part of the University of Cambridge and for centuries has extended its research and teaching activities by making available worldwide through its printing and publishing a remarkable range of academic and educational books, journals, examination papers and Bibles. For millions of people around the globe, the publications of the Press represent their only real link with the University of Cambridge.

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Booth 12

International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
www.iscb.org

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB — www.iscb.org) organizes and hosts the Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), now in its 15th year and presented this year as a joint meeting with the 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB).

The mission of ISCB is to advance the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. On behalf of its global membership, ISCB communicates the significance of our science to the larger scientific community, governments, and the public at large, thus impacting government and scientific policies.

Primary activities include providing high quality publications and meetings, and distributing valuable information about training, education, employment and relevant news from related fields. ISCB membership offers many benefits including reduced conference registration fees to several high impact events, most prominently ISMB, ECCB, PSB and RECOMB, as well as reduced subscription prices for a selection of journals related to computational biology and bioinformatics. ISCB proudly offers the open-access PLoS Computational Biology as its official journal, and publishes the ISMB conference proceedings in partnership with Oxford University Press in open-access format as part of a regular issue of Bioinformatics.

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Booth 13

PLoS Computational Biology
www.ploscompbiol.org

PLoS Computational Biology (www.ploscompbiol.org) is an online, peer-reviewed journal publishing works of exceptional significance that further our understanding of living systems through application of computational methods. It features high-quality Research Articles, invited Reviews and Perspectives, Tutorials, and the popular editorial series of “Ten Simple Rules.” As the official journal of the ISCB, it also includes a Message from the Society. All PLoS journals are open access and freely available to read, copy, distribute and use without limits.

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Booth 14

CLC bio A/S
www.clcbio.com

CLC bio, the world’s leading full-service bioinformatics solution provider, focusing on:

Software for highly advanced RNA, DNA, and protein sequence analysis, nested in user-friendly and well-supported environment.

Hardware: high-performance computing using advanced FPGA technology to dramatically accelerate resource intensive database searches on your laptop.

Consulting: development of customized bioinformatics software.

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Booth 15

The MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu

The MIT Press is a distinguished publisher of books and journals in computational molecular biology and related fields: a full range of titles will be on display and available at a 20% conference discount. New titles in 2007 include Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment, by Robert G. B. Reid, a critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology. Modeling Biology: Structures, Behaviors, Evolution, edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Müller, experts examine new modeling strategies for the interpretation of biological data and their integration into the conceptual framework of theoretical biology, detailing approaches that focus on morphology, development, behavior, or evolution.

Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition. A journal devoted to theoretical advances in the biological and cognitive sciences, with an emphasis on the conceptual integration afforded by evolutionary and developmental approaches, and will appeal to a wide audience of scientists, social scientists, philosophers and historians of biology. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/biot

For information on submitting proposals and manuscripts please contact: Robert Prior, Executive Editor, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge MA 02142, USA. prior@mit.edu
For marketing and order queries please contact: The MIT Press, 11 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EY, UK info@hup-mitpress.co.uk

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Booth 16

Oxford Journals
www.oxfordjournals.org

Oxford Journals is a premier publisher whose titles include the fully Open Access Nucleic Acids Research. Oxford also publishes the leading journal in its field, Bioinformatics, as well as Briefings in Bioinformatics and Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics. Visit our booth for a free sample copy of these journals.

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Booth 17

Elsevier B.V.
www.elsevier.com

Elsevier is a leading publisher of science books and journals, with titles available across a variety of media – print, online and CD-ROM, we are able to supply the information you need in the most convenient format. Visit our booth, number 17 to pick up your free journal sample copies and browse our titles on display.
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Booth 18

IOP Publishing
www.iop.org

Physical Biology fosters the integration of biology with the traditionally more quantitative fields of physics, chemistry, computer science and other mathematics-based disciplines. Its primary aim is to further the quantitative characterization and understanding of biological systems at different levels of complexity.

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Booth 19

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
www.wiley.com

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons has been a valued source of information and understanding for 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfil their aspirations.
Visit us at our stand to view the latest resources and to take advantage of a 20% conference discount on all our books.

NEW – BLACKWELL PUBLISHING IS NOW PART OF WILEY!
Browse all Blackwell titles published in your area of research at www.blackwellpublishing.com

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Booth 20

Active Motif
www.activemotif.com

Active Motif is a biotechnology company developing bioinformatics software/hardware tools, and molecular/cellular biology research tools, in the form of reagent kits, to study functional genomics and the role of cell signaling and other pathways. These products apply an innovative approach to accelerate current techniques and provide more reliable data.

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Booth 24

EMBL — European Bioinformatics Institute
www.ebi.ac.uk

EMBL-EBI is the hub of bioinformatics in Europe. Our mission is to provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to the whole scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress. Also, to contribute to biological advancement through basic investigator-driven research in bioinformatics, to provide advanced bioinformatics training and to help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry.

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Booth 25

EMBL — European Molecular Biology Laboratory
www.ebi.ac.uk

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is Europe’s flagship laboratory for basic research in molecular biology. It is supported by 19 member states. Its mission is: to perform basic research in molecular biology; to train scientists; to offer vital services to scientists and to actively engage in technology transfer activities.

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Booth 26

BioMed Central
www.biomedcentral.com

BioMed Central is the open access publisher committed to the free widespread dissemination of scientific research. BioMed Central publishes over 170 peer-reviewed open access journals, including BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Systems Biology. Visit the BioMed Central stand to learn more about the journals and the benefits of open access publishing.

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Booth 27

BIOBASE GmbH
www.biobase-international.com

BIOBASE is a leading provider of expertly curated biological databases. The BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) includes industry standards such as TRANSFAC®, TRANSPATH®, YPD™ and HumanPSD™ databases. In combination with BIOBASE’s powerful systems biology tool ExPlain™ BKL is used to analyse complex regulatory networks and identify key molecules linked to human disease.

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Booth 28

Geneious Software
www.geneious.com

The company behind Geneious(TM) is Biomatters Ltd. A leading edge scientific software development company headquartered in
New Zealand, Biomatters develops unique and easy to use bioinformatics software. Biomatters continues to pursue innovative
solutions with a vision to improve science in the areas of disease research, human health and environmental issues.

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Booth 33

Journal of the Royal Society
www.publishing.royalsoc.ac.uk/interface

Journal of the Royal Society Interface is an international journal publishing articles from the interface between the physical and life sciences.

It is a high-quality forum for rapid publication, applying research in the physical sciences to the biological and medical sciences; whilst also highlighting discoveries in the life sciences that allow advances in the physical sciences.

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Booth 34

The MathWorks
www.mathworks.com

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are standardizing on the MATLAB and Simulink platforms to perform their tasks all in one computing environment. MathWorks engineers will demonstrate how you can accelerate your research and gain deeper scientific insight by using computational methods. Case studies and demonstrations will cover application areas such as: Bioinformatics – Biostatistics – Bioimage processing and analysis – Pathway modeling – Pharmacokinetic modelling.

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Booth 35

Springer
www.springer.com

Take your research and skills to the next level with Springer Computer and Information Science. Stop by our booth to discover an authoritative range of journals, books, and major reference works, including the highly respected Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Encyclopedias offering easy-access to important applications, concepts, and technology.

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Booth 36

EGEE — Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
www.eu-egee.org

The EGEE project brings together scientists and engineers from over 90 institutions world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure available to scientists 24/7. Expanding from two scientific fields, high energy physics and life sciences, EGEE now integrates applications from many other scientific fields, ranging from geology to computational chemistry.

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Booth 37

Chemical Computing Group (CCG)
www.chemcomp.com

Chemical Computing Group (CCG) provides state-of-the-art discovery software for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry through its flagship product – MOE, the Molecular Operating Environment. MOE is a multi-applications product that addresses the needs of Medicinal and Computational Chemists.