| SIGs Over the past 11 years a number of smaller, more specialized meetings in computational biology have become regularly associated with the ISMB annual meetings. This year ISMB 2003 is pleased to have several special interest group meetings associated with this year's conference. | Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) | Friday, June 27
09:00 - 21:00
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 21:00 | Plenary: Mezzanine M3
Breakout Room 1: Mezzanine M5/M6
Breakout Room 2: Mezzanine M7/M8 | Corporate Rate: $ US $150.00
Academic / Government: $ 130.00
Student: $110.00 | | For more information regarding the BOSC SIG, click here | | Biopathways | Friday, June 27
09:00 - 21:00
Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 21:00 | Plenary: Mezzanine M4
Breakout Room 1: Plaza P3
Breakout Room 2: Plaza P4 | Corporate Rate: $ US $150.00
Academic / Government: $ 130.00
Student: $110.00 | | For more information regarding the BioPathways SIG, click here | | Text Mining (BioLINK) | Friday, June 27
09:00 - 17:30 | Mezzanine - M2 | Corporate Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00 | | For more information regarding the Text Mining (BioLINK) SIG, click here | | Bio-Ontologies | Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 17:30 | Mezzanine M1 | Corporate Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00 | | For more information regarding the Bio-Ontologies SIG, click here | | WEB 03 | Saturday, June 28
09:00 - 17:30 | Mezzanine M2 | Corporate Rate: $ US 100.00
Academic / Government: $90.00
Student: $75.00 | | For more information regarding the WEB 03 SIG, click here |
SIG DESCRIPTIONS Bioinformatics Open Source Conference BOSC http://open-bio.org/bosc2003/
The 4th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2003) is being organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics Foundation (http://open-bio.org). The focus of the meeting is on current and emerging open source informatics tools and toolkits. BOSC provides a forum for developers, project groups, users and interested parties to meet personally, exchange ideas and collaborate together. The morning and afternoon sessions will feature talks from submitted abstracts. A communal wireless network will be available and evening BoF sessions willl bring together project groups and people with specialized interests.
BioPathways http://www.biopathways.org
The 5th BioPathways meeting will be held on June 27th and 28th, in Brisbane, Australia, as a satellite of ISMB'03. The meeting is organized by the BioPathways Consortium), an open forum aimed at fostering computational approaches to the modeling, reconstruction, analysis and simulation of biological networks. The scientific program will include three plenary sessions with respective focuses on: - a systems scale view of regulation,
- the evolution of molecular pathways
- representation, integration and exchange of pathway data.
The latter session is organized in cooperation with the BioPax initiative (www.biopax.org).
Each plenary session will consist of several long invited presentations (45'), followed by a panel discussion on the theme.
To encourage presentation of cutting-edge research and work-in-progress, we have added a tools and poster session this year. This new session will consist of mini-presentations (5’) of relevant tools followed by a session of reviewed posters in the conference venue. A few selected tools and posters, deemed of general interest to the community, will be featured on the BioPathways Consortium’s web site. Particular emphasis will be put on approaches along the themes of the plenary sessions, as well as on research in pathway visualization and reconstruction, all of which are subjects followed by the consortium’s workgroups.
Looking forward to seeing you at BioPathways 03, The organizing committee : Joanne Luciano, Eric Neumann, Aviv Regev, Vincent Schächter
Text Mining (BioLINK)http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/BioLink/
The Special Interest Group on Text Mining (or BioLINK) was created to address the need of communication and interchange of ideas in the field of text mining and information extraction applied to biology and biomedicine. Despite the successes in other fields Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques were not introduced in biology until the late 90's. There exists a problem of misunderstanding and misinterpretation in this field that hinders the development toward powerful text mining systems accepted by biologists (the actual users). To improve this situation we hold regular open meetings to bring together researchers from the field to interchange ideas and share them with a wider community interested in the latest developments and to discuss common goals, standard datasets and uniform evaluation criteria.
Bio-Ontologies http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr/meeting03/
Brisbane sees the Sixth Annual bio-Ontologies meeting. Bio-ontologies are a domain wide activity, rather than dealing with one aspect of bioinformatics. Upto six years ago, ontologies were seen as a niche activity within bio-informatics. There are those that still argue about the form an utility of ontologies, but we have seen great advances both in research and practical use of ontologies within bioinformatics. Come to the Sixth Bio-Ontologies meeting to catch up on news and discussion in a lively and friendly format. Contact Robert Stevens for abstract submission or visit the Bio-Ontoogy meeting Web site.
WEB 03 http://surya.bic.nus.edu.sg/web03/
This workshop aims to bring together Bioinformatics educators for to meet, discuss and exchange ideas and suggestions. WEB03 will address fundamental issues that will determine the nature, extent, content and delivery tools available for bioinformatics programs embarked upon, as well as provide valuable lessons for focus and improvement of nascent Bioinformatics programs. The morning and afternoon sessions will feature short talks from submitted abstracts, with poster viewing in the morning break. WEB is an ideal meeting for Deans, academics, entrepreneurs, trainers and students, interested in bioinformatics. Contact Shoba Ranganathan (email: shoba@bic.nus.edu.sg) for more details. |
