Bioinformatics to Systems Biology 2008

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Second virtual conference on “Bioinformatics to Systems Biology"
Online at Bioinformatics.Org
July 14, 2008, 15:00-17:30 GMT (11:00 AM-1:30 PM US EDT)
Organized by Bioinformatics.Org and Bioclues.org

1 About the conference
2 Program
3 Submissions
4 Target audience
5 Registration
6 Logistics
7 Additional information
8 Conference chairs
9 See also

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About the conference

The first virtual conference on "Bioinformatics to Systems Biology" took place on November 16, 2007, online at the Bioinformatics Organization. For last year’s conference, please click here. This year’s conference, Bioinformatics to Systems Biology 2008 (BSB ’08), is aimed at students and those in the research community who fall under broader disciplines of bioinformatics and systems biology. The BSB ’08 conference will include invited keynote talks within sub-disciplines of these two exciting fields. In addition to keynote addresses, individuals are invited to submit abstracts for presentation as talks in concurrent sessions, or as posters. Ample time will be set aside for discussion during the presentation of participants. In the coming days, we will be adding a lot of information to this website that will provide you with detailed information on BSB ’08.

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Program

(All times US EDT/New York; please check the World Clock)

11:00 AM - Welcome by J.W. Bizzaro and Prashanth Suravajhala

11:15 AM - Dr. Henning Schmidt, PhD., University of Rostock, Germany: "Systems Biology Toolbox 2 for MATLAB"

11:40 AM - Professor P.K. Suresh, PhD., PITAM, Aranvoylkuppam, India: "mtDNA extraction methods to study mtDNA mutations - Relevance in apoptosis and cellular aging"

12:05 PM - Dr. Gary Bader,PhD., University of Toronto, Canada: "Pathway Commons: A public library of biological pathways"

12:30 PM - Dr. Kasper Lage, PhD., 1:Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 2:Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 3:Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; 4:Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark: "Genomic and Proteomic networks in human organ development and pathology"

12:55 PM - Break

Presentations and virtual posters from select abstracts:

1:05 PM - Kurt Vanhoutte et al: Analysis of human micro-array data to probe for a pathophysiological patient categorization. A systems biology perspective applied to Atrial Fibrillation.

1:20 PM - Pritish Varadwaj and Lahiri T: Functional group based Ligand retrieval (FBLR) through active site rendering using a novel distance based binding affinity function at atomic environmental level

1:35 PM - Virtual posters and networking

2:00 PM - Adieu and see you in BSB '09

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Submissions

We invite you to submit your original and unpublished contribution for presentation at this virtual conference from all subfields of bioinformatics and systems biology. Abstracts submitted would be evaluated by the program committee through a three-tier reviewing process and the three selected abstracts would be chosen for an oral talk. The rest of the selected submission would, however be printed in our conference proceedings. We are looking forward to publish in one of the open access journals as well: All structured abstracts along with key note presentations will appear in Bioinformation Journal. We also encourage researchers to submit proposed works or works in progress. Please send your (maximum two-page) abstracts containing NOT more than 500 words with sub-heads: Motivation, Methods/tools employed, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Future aviations, References to bsb08<at>bioinformatics<DOT>org not later than July 5, 2008, 1500hrs GMT. The figures and tables, if any should be clear and inline within the particular sub heads.

The authors must also claim if they declare any competing interests. Bioinformatics.Org appreciates if authors also declare usage of open access of their submissions.

Deadline: July 5, 2008, 1500hrs GMT

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Target audience

Graduate students and researchers in computational biology, molecular biology and medicine

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Registration

Registration is comprised of two steps. First, if you haven't already done so, create an online account to access the educational section of our website (this is separate from other accounts at Bioinformatics.Org). Second, register for this conference by making a payment using either the online registration form (use this form only for credit card payments via secured PayPal), or by sending in the mail-in registration form (~150 kB PDF, use this form if paying by US checks, credit card or corporate purchase order). Please check the registration fees below.

Registration deadline: Late breaking admissions still accepted

Tuition:

$30 USD commercial & government
$20 USD non-profit & student

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Logistics

Online conferences are offered via an online meeting system. Access information will be provided prior to the start of the course. Attendees will be able to communicate with the instructor and other students via the chat system built into the system.

Since this will be an interactive conference, all attendees will need a computer with a broadband Internet connection (1 Mbps or faster is strongly recommended), a sound card with speakers, a modern Web browser, and the Adobe Flash plugin. Please check the specific system requirements for your computer. A microphone and webcam are not required for this conference.

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