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Special Interest Group and Satellite Meetings
The schedule is set for 2006. To inquire about the possibility
of forming a new SIG for 2007 or beyond, please address your
inquiry to admin@iscb.org
It is not required
to be registered for the ISMB 2006 conference to attend
a Satellite Meeting.
The registration fee for the Satellite Meeting includes
the 3Dsig Evening Session and Dinner. Satellite
Meeting registration does not allow access to the SIG
Meetings.
Daily lunches for the 3Dsig Satellite Meeting
are included.
Satellite Meeting will take place in the Fortaleza Convention
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It is not required
to be registered for the ISMB 2006 conference to attend
a SIG meeting.
Registering for a SIG at ISMB 2006 will allow you
to move freely between all SIGs that take place at the
same time as the meeting for which you are registered,
to the extent that the room capacities can accommodate.
SIG registration does not allow access to the
Satellite Meeting.
Each SIG participant will receive a booklet that includes
handouts from all SIGs and daily lunches are included.
Please register for the SIG in which you are most interested
so that we can assign SIGs to larger and smaller rooms
as appropriate.
SIG Meetings will take place in the Fortaleza Convention
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URL:
http://3dsig.weizmann.ac.il/ |
Date:
Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5
Start time: 9:00am End time: 6:30pm |
Room Location:
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We
are happy to announce the second 3Dsig:
Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics Satellite
meeting. Following the success of 3Dsig-2004,
we will have two full days (don't plan anything for the evening!)
with a balance of invited talks, short presentations, novel
laptop-sessions and critical, topic focused discussions.
Registration to the 3Dsig Satellite
meeting includes the 3Dsig Evening
Session and Dinner on Friday, August 4. Please note, registration
for the 3Dsig Satellite meeting allows access to
the 3Dsig meeting only.
Relevant topics include:
- Structure representation, structure prediction, structural
genomics
- Structural databases and 3D data-mining
- Structure-based function prediction
- Evolution studied through structure
- Docking: protein-protein, and protein-ligand, and RNA
interaction prediction
- Prediction and analysis of domains
- Membrane protein structure prediction and analysis
- The role of geometry and energetics in protein and RNA
structure and function
- Protein and RNA dynamics and simulation: folding, stability,
interactions, conformational gating
- Computer aided protein and RNA design
- Structure-based drug design and pharmacophore analysis
Call for abstracts: We are
looking for fresh, effective voices, and new, high impact
ideas and results. The program will be build around the accepted
and invited talks. Abstracts will be placed on a discussion
web site prior to the meeting, and participant input considered
in choosing oral presentations.
The scientific committee of 3Dsig is
chaired by John Moult (CARB, UMBI) and includes
Phil Bourne (UCSD), Steven E. Brenner
(UC Berkeley), Joel Sussman (Weizmann Institute
of Science) and Janet Thornton (EBI).
For further info, explore our website: http://3dsig.weizmann.ac.il.
To better appreciate the wealth of leading topics and presenters,
explore the 3Dsig 2004
book at: http://3dsig.weizmann.ac.il/2004/3dsigbook.pdf
Contact: Ilan Samish, ilan.samish@weizmann.ac.il
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URL:
http://3dsig.weizmann.ac.il/ |
Date:
Friday, August 4
Start time: 7:30pm End time: 10:30pm |
Room Location: Oasis
Hotel (Brazil Room) |
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On
Friday, August 4, 3Dsig will host an evening session
which includes a panel discussion and keynote speaker and
dinner, both on a central topic to Structural Bioinformatics
and Computational Biophysics. This session is included
in the 3Dsig Satellite registration and has a separate
registration price of $30 for SIG delegates. The
evening sessions tickets can be purchased when registering
on-line. Following the successful format launched in 2004,
the panel discussion will include audience participation.
Informal round-table discussions and interactions will be
nurtured by the good food that Brazil has to offer. For further
details on 3Dsig Satellite Meeting see http://3dsig.weizmann.ac.il
Contact: Ilan Samish, ilan.samish@weizmann.ac.il
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URL:
http://www.biolinfo.org/as-sig/ |
Date:
Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5
Start time: 9:00am End time: 6:30pm |
Room Location: Room
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This
is an exciting time for the field of transcripomics, combining
new discoveries from genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular
biology. Alternative splicing has now emerged as a ubiquitous
mechanism of regulation, accounting for the complexity of
higher eukaryotes, where one gene could give rise to several
gene products. Whereas the Human Genome Project has uncovered
20,000 – 25,000 genes, alternative splicing evidently
produces over 100,000 distinct transcript forms. Identifying,
quantifying, and analyzing the regulation, function and evolution
of these forms constitutes a “Human Transcriptome Project”,
and will require a tremendous community effort. Above all,
it will require close collaboration between bioinformaticists
and experimentalists, to build a community of shared tools,
databases, nomenclature and standards. This SIG aims to establish
a permanent forum for bioinformaticists and experimentalists
to meet and discuss transcriptome issues together, especially
in the light of diseases implicated by alternative splicing.
The purpose of this SIG is to cover the latest
results and questions in this exciting field, and to bring
together bioinformaticists and experimentalists, focusing
on questions that demand their collaboration. The SIG will
include studies of alternative splicing both in human and
other organisms, and will consist of two days of talks (approximately
20 minutes each), and a poster session. Talks will be grouped
in four major areas:
- Bioinformatics: algorithms and analysis of alternative
splicing, including topics such as analysis of alternative
splicing evidence, products, and functional impact; comparative
genomics; alternative splicing regulation; and data-mining.
- Biology: Biological mechanisms of splicing and regulation;
biological functions such as the impact of splice variants
on protein structure and biological pathways; phenomena
such as nonsense-mediated decay and disease associations.
- Splicing and Diseases: Identification and characterization
of splice variants as a consequence of disease; diagnostic
tools and therapeutic stratagies based on splicing pattern
variations between normal and diseases states; classification
of splice forms based on disease progression.
- Databases, and Standards for the “Human Transcriptome
Project”: Transcript repositories; data interchange
formats; standards for annotating the transcriptome.
Contact: Shoba Ranganathan,
srangana@els.mq.edu.au;
Sandro de Souza, sandro@compbio.ludwig.org.br;
Roderic Guigo, rguigo@imim.es
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URL:
http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2006 |
Date:
Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5
Start time: 9:00am End time: 6:30pm |
Room Location: Room
E1 |
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The
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference is held annually as
a special interest group in conjunction with the International
Systems in Molecular Biology conference. It is sponsored by
the Open Bioinformatics
Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to promoting
the development of Open Source Bioinformatics Software, and
Open Standards of data communication and representation.
BOSC 2006 is shaping up to be an exciting conference.
We have two keynote speakers this year. Amos Bairoch, of the
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, will be speaking about
his monumental efforts in the development of some of the most
important Bioinformatics databases, software, and services
in the world research community. Our second keynote speech
features Alberto Davila, of the DBBM, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil,
who has been a staunch advocate for researchers in developing
countries faced with the challenge of addressing the impending
genomics divide between them and the developed world.
Our agenda this year will consist of two sections
per day, one for long talks from submitters chosen to present
from a larger group of submitted abstracts, and one for smaller
lightning talks and demos where presenters are allowed a few
minutes to raise awareness of their work, software usage practices,
or research needs. In addition to these presentations, BOSC
always facilitates the meeting of like minds over a range
of subjects in small Birds of a Feather meetings. We are very
much looking forward to this exciting event.
Contact: Darin London, darin.london@duke.edu
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URL:
http://www.biopathways.org |
Date:
Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5
Start time: 9:00am End time: 6:30pm |
Room Location: to
be announced |
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URL:
http://www.jbb06.org |
Date:
Saturday, August 5
Start time: 9:00am End time: 6:30pm |
Room Location: Room
B2 |
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(The
joint meeting will only be held on Saturday, August 5 –
Delegates registering for this SIG are entitled to attend
other SIG meetings on Friday, August 4 as part of the two
day registration package. Please note there is no one day
registration available for SIGs)
This year, the two long standing ISMB SIGs,
Bio-Ontologies and BioLINK will hold a joint one-day workshop.
The meeting will consist of sessions that focus on the intersection
of bio-ontologies and text mining, as well as individual sessions
on the use of ontologies in the life sciences and on
biomedical text mining.
The Bio-Ontologies SIG is concerned with research
and applications of ontologies in the life sciences. Ontologies
provide a mechanism for organising, sharing and reconciling
data. Within recent years there has been a surge of interest
in their use within bioinformatics, particularly for providing
computationally accessible annotation, or standard data models
for complex microarray or pathway knowledge.
BioLINK focuses on the application of techniques
from natural language processing, information extraction and
information retrieval to automate knowledge discovery from
biomedical text, and on linking text from a variety of sources
with structured biomedical resources, such as curated biological
databases and ontologies.
There is a natural synergy between the two SIGs:
both fields are cross disciplinary; both exist against a large
backdrop of computer science literature; and, finally, both
are relatively new to the life sciences. More recently a more
direct technological link is being formed as ontologists are
using text-mining to test, check and build ontologies, while
the knowledge in ontologies is being used to augment text-mining
techniques.
BioLINK and Bio-Ontologies have previously held
joint activities; this year we take this further, giving an
excellent opportunity to explore work crossing the boundaries,
while still supporting the needs of the respective communities.
Contact: Phillip Lord, Phillip.Lord@newcastle.ac.uk;
Hagit Shatkay, shatkay@cs.queensu.ca
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