From jeedward from gmail.com Thu Jan 1 14:22:08 2009 From: jeedward from gmail.com (john) Date: Thu Jan 1 14:48:35 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] BCBGC-09 call for papers Message-ID: BCBGC-09 call for papers The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) • International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) • International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) • International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) • International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee From cib.nitin from gmail.com Fri Jan 2 01:55:55 2009 From: cib.nitin from gmail.com (Nitin) Date: Fri Jan 2 13:12:38 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Hye Every one plz help me in QSAR Message-ID: <690cc8a7-9d8c-40ae-a491-1d0fe1ffec4b@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> hi all, I am new one in the QSAR technique. plz suggest me this technique. Thanx Nitin Kumar Verma From prash from bioclues.org Fri Jan 2 03:22:31 2009 From: prash from bioclues.org (Prash) Date: Fri Jan 2 13:12:44 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Final Call: African virtual Bioinformatics conference Message-ID: Dear All, Call for abstracts: Submission deadline 12th January More details can be had by visiting: http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/Afbix09 Best, Prash Prashanth Suravajhala CDAC, Pune, India http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/Prash From tippyland from gmail.com Fri Jan 9 05:59:11 2009 From: tippyland from gmail.com (tippyland@gmail.com) Date: Fri Jan 9 12:37:53 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Sequence Clustering Message-ID: <1892f44d-43c4-4616-b4f4-348f823df9be@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Hi, i'm lookign for informations about Sequence Clustering algorithm. I need to implement it so I would be very grateful to get some technical specifications about it. Thanks for any help! From darek.kedra from gmail.com Fri Jan 9 18:18:41 2009 From: darek.kedra from gmail.com (darked) Date: Fri Jan 9 22:52:31 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Re: Sequence Clustering References: Message-ID: <87a37944-d43e-4dc1-b1df-372a5c358cbe@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> On Jan 9, 11:59?am, tippyl...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > i'm lookign for informations about Sequence Clustering algorithm. I > need to implement it so I would be very grateful to get some technical > specifications about it. You may start here: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Wikiomics:Orthologues + i.e. this paper: http://peds.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/15/8/643 darked From sivabio from gmail.com Sun Jan 11 21:30:06 2009 From: sivabio from gmail.com (ss) Date: Sun Jan 11 23:31:35 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Re: Hye Every one plz help me in QSAR References: Message-ID: <3eeecfc7-54e6-4177-8bdc-f8756c9c1d5f@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Dear Kumar, Visit the website http://www.biochem.co.nr and follow the bioinfo link in the homepage, it provide different steps and online tools for drug designing thank you, s.sivakumar From orry.molsoft from gmail.com Mon Jan 12 14:59:26 2009 From: orry.molsoft from gmail.com (Andrew Orry) Date: Mon Jan 12 15:33:51 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop - MolSoft February 5-6 2009 Message-ID: <496BA11E.80809@molsoft.com> **We still have some places available at out MolSoft ICM Workshop: "Protein Structure and Drug Discovery" February 5th to 6th 2009 La Jolla, CA.** Please see the following invitation to attend MolSoft's (www.molsoft.com) Protein Structure and Drug Design Workshop on February 5th to 6th 2009 in La Jolla, California USA. For more information and a registration form visit www.molsoft.com/training.html. Our workshops are suitable for chemists and biologists who would like to learn more about computational drug discovery and bioinformatics. No prior knowledge in this field is required to participate. The workshop is presented by Prof. Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute) and Dr. Maxim Totrov (MolSoft). The workshops will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and "hands-on" computational experiments and will cover the following topics: - Sequence and Protein Structure Analysis - Protein Modeling and Simulations - Structure Validation and Optimization - Ligand Binding Site Prediction - Small Molecule Docking and Virtual Ligand Screening - Structure-based development of target-specific compound libraries - Cheminformatics, Chemical Clustering, Searching, Superposition etc... - QSAR, Machine Learning - Protein-Protein Docking We will demonstrate and train you in the use of many of our new developments in computational chemistry and biology including: - 3D Ligand Editor - design and optimize ligands interactively - Markush Library Docking - Multiple Receptor Docking (A method to incorporate receptor flexibility) - Automated model building into electron density - Atomic property field chemical superposition - Fast machine learning tools for QSAR - Pharmacophore drawing and searching - Compound library enumeration tools - Screen-grabbing molecular movie making "The objective of this training workshop is to help chemists and biologists solve challenging problems in the area of drug discovery by efficient use of the science and technology present in ICM molecular modeling tools." Prof. Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute and Co-Founder of Molsoft LLC) Please see our website at www.molsoft.com for more details or E mail andy@molsoft.com or call (858) 625 2000 ext.108. Please join the ICM Discussion Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/molsoft-icm-forum Latest Newsletter: http://www.molsoft.com/news.html MolSoft is a La Jolla based company that is a primary source of new breakthrough technologies in computational chemistry and biology. Molsoft is committed to solving intellectually challenging problems in drug discovery and computational biology. From jeedward from yahoo.com Fri Jan 16 17:04:02 2009 From: jeedward from yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri Jan 16 23:23:26 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] BCBGC-09 final call for papers Message-ID: <252515.16641.qm@web45910.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> BCBGC-09 final call for papers ? The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? From tekaia from pasteur.fr Mon Jan 19 11:21:19 2009 From: tekaia from pasteur.fr (Fredj Tekaia) Date: Mon Jan 19 14:28:58 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis EMBO course in Hong Kong Message-ID: <9CF5AFB7-A1C1-4733-AA75-7FC354A239C3@pasteur.fr> Call for application to the : Bioinformatics and Comparative Genome Analysis course August 17 - August 29, 2009 HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/BCGA2009.html Organizers/Contact: Roberto Bruzzone, HKU-Pasteur Research Centre - Hong Kong. Si Lok, Genome Research Center The University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong. Tin Wee Tan, National University of Singapore - Singapore. Ueng-Cheng Yang, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei - Taiwan. Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur Paris - France. With financial support from: EMBO - Institut Pasteur Paris. Aim of the course: The main objectives of the course are to familiarize young scientists (Biologists/Computer Scientists/Mathematicians) with bioinformatics and genome data analysis skills and to encourage multi-disciplinarity by introducing: 1- advanced fundamental algorithms in bioinformatics, 2- their application in genome analyses, 3- and recent knowledge acquired from genomes studies and perspectives. The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D and Post-doctoral students, as well as young assistant professors and junior scientists in Public Institutions particularly from Asia, Africa and South America, with background in Mathematics, Statistics, Biology or Computing, who are involved in Bioinformatics and Genomes studies. Duration: Full time from August 17 to August 29, 2009. Location: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Accommodation and social: Acceptance to the course includes free accommodation (double rooms based) breakfast, lunch and dinner. Application Deadline: April 15, 2009. More information about the course, how to apply and application form can be found at the following web page: http://www.pasteur.fr/~tekaia/ BCGA2009.html From ijcbs2009 from gmail.com Fri Jan 23 02:46:44 2009 From: ijcbs2009 from gmail.com (IJCBS2009) Date: Fri Jan 23 17:11:42 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] The Second Call for Papers: IJCBS09 Message-ID: <3DA3D132-743E-4D75-A837-8FCD39B1DB28@gmail.com> ***************************** The International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing (IJCBS'09) will take place in Shanghai, China on August 3rd - 6th, 2009. You are invited to submit papers with unpublished original work describing recent advances on all aspects of Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing, including, but not restricted to the following topics: Bioinformatics: Bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio- languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data mining; identification and classification of genes; sequence search and alignment; protein structure prediction and molecular simulation; molecular evolution and phylogeny; functional genomics, proteomics; drug discovery; gene expression analysis; bioinformatics engineering; bio-data visualization; algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio- sets; biomarkers of toxicity; bio-imaging; signaling and computation, genetics and genomics. Systems Biology: Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of cellular and multicellular systems, emergence of properties in complex biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data, prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells, organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi- resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug target validation. Intelligent Computing: Machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, agents, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and optimization; feature selection/ extraction; ensemble methods; manifold learning theory; artificial life and artificial immune systems; technology to develop artificial components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and scientific principles related to artificial life. Important Dates Workshop/Special Session Proposals: February 1, 2009 Paper Submission (maximum 8 pages with IEEE/CS conference format): February 15, 2009 Notification to Authors: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready, Full Papers: April 5, 2009 Paper Submission and Publication IJCBS09 invites authors to submit papers using the link http://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/submission.html . By submitting your paper to IJCBS'09, you implicitly state that the paper is based on your own original research and that it was not and will not be submitted elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 7 pages with standard IEEE CS formats. All submitted papers should be written in English. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and indexed in EI. Selected papers will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals, including BMC Genomics, International Journal of Data Mining & Bioinformatics, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Supercomputing, International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, IJFIPM and other SCI and PubMed indexed journals. Other Information Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at the conference. The IJCBS'09 will award a number of travel fellowships for students and authors of outstanding papers. Please find conference organization, workshops, special sessions, tutorials, keynotes, paper submission, author instructions and registration information at the IJCBS website http://www.isibm.org/ IJCBS. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Joe Zhang (USA) or Dr. Guozheng Li (China) by email ijcbs09@orca.st.usm.edu . IJCBS 2009 Program Committee and Organizing Committee Sponsors/Supporters: ISIBM, NSF, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Chinese Academy of Science and Tongji University in Shanghai From mourad12345678 from yahoo.com Fri Jan 23 20:23:10 2009 From: mourad12345678 from yahoo.com (Mourad Elloumi) Date: Sat Jan 24 11:48:30 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] BIOKDD'09 / DEXA'09 CfP Message-ID: <405829.74147.qm@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PAPERS Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Tunis (Tunisia) And Faculty of Applied Sciences, Bucharest (Romania) Organize Biological Knowledge Discovery from Databases (BIOKDD'09) Workshop held in parallel with 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'09) www.dexa.org University of Linz, Austria August 31 - September 4, 2009 With the development of Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth of both the volume and the complexity of biological databases. For example, the Human Genome Project provided the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome. And, consequently, we are provided too with the sequences of about 100,000 proteins. Therefore, we are entering the post-genomic era : After having focused so much efforts on the accumulation of biological data in databases, we have now to focus as much efforts, and even more, on the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of biological data stored in databases is a challenging task because, not only, of its complexity and its multiple numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological structural and evolutionary mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) is a response to these new trends. You are invited to submit a draft paper in PDF format before February 28, 2009 via DEXA'09 ConfDriver. Papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE format www.ieee.org/ web/publications /authors/ transjnl/ index.html All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’09 Workshops with IEEE CSP. One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’09 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’09 workshop. Program Committee: Mourad Elloumi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, (PC Chair) Cristian Toma, Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania (PC Co-Chair) Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France Beatrice Duval, University of Angers, France Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui. Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tanger, Morocco El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Sciences and Techniques of Lille, France Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, UK Kathleen Steinhöfel, King's College London, UK Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Important Dates: Submission of Full Papers: February 28, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2009 Camera-ready Copies: May 31, 2009 From icdm09 from gmail.com Fri Jan 30 19:55:51 2009 From: icdm09 from gmail.com (Kun Liu) Date: Fri Jan 30 20:05:51 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] 1st cfp: ICDM'09 - the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - December 6-9, 2009 Miami, U.S.A Message-ID: <5e8c1b5d0901301655s15f0751cle4d8ba71d5832b26@mail.gmail.com> [Sorry for crossing posting.] ************************************************************************** ICDM'09: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ************************************************************************** Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society December 6-9, 2009 Miami, U.S.A. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ICDM09/ Important Dates April 13, 2009 Deadline for workshop proposals June 26, 2009 Deadline for paper submission, tutorial submission, and panel proposals September 4, 2009 Notification to authors September 28, 2009 Deadline for camera-ready copies December 6-9, 2009 Conference Call for Papers *************** The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining. The 2009 edition of ICDM provides a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and the ICDM data mining contest. Paper Submissions ***************** High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for ICDM'09. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=ICDM+2008 ). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. A double blind review process will be adopted. Authors should avoid using identifying information in the text of the paper. A Submission Form to submit your work will be announced on the ICDM'09 website. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. A selected number of IEEE ICDM'09 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal published by Springer-Verlag. ICDM Best Paper Awards ********************** IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best application paper, and (3) the best student paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The best student paper award will be given to the authors of the best paper written solely by one or more students. Workshops and Tutorials *********************** ICDM'09 will host short and long tutorials as well as workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ICDM Data Mining Contest ************************ ICDM'09 will host a data mining contest to challenge researchers and practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. For further details on proposals and expression of interest, please see the Call for Data Mining Contest Proposals. Topics of Interest ****************** * Data mining foundations - Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, pattern discovery, and association analysis) - Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains - Developing a unifying theory of data mining - Mining sequences and sequential data - Mining spatial and temporal datasets - Mining textual and unstructured datasets - Distributed data mining - High performance implementations of data mining algorithms - Privacy and anonymity-preserving data analysis * Mining in emerging domains - Stream data mining - Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks - Ubiquitous knowledge discovery - Mining multi-agent data - Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities - Mining the semantic web - Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks * Methodological aspects and the KDD process - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation - Quality assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing - Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining - Handling imbalanced data - Automating the mining process and other process related issues - Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models - Human-machine interaction and visual data mining - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Data mining query languages - Security and data integrity * Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences - Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics - Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets - Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance - Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research - Customer relationship management - Telecommunications, network and systems management - Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems Organizing Committee ******************** Conference Co-Chairs: Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago Program Co-Chairs: Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Wei Wang, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Steering Committee: Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont, USA Nick Cercone, York University, Canada David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, UK Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Local Arrangements Chair: Tao Li, Florida International University Finance Chair: Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University Awards Committee: Jiawei Han (Chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia Wei Fan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp, Belgium Minos N. Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Panels Chair: Haym Hirsh, NSF and Rutgers Workshop Co-Chairs: Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University Jeffrey Xu Yu, CUHK Tutorials Chair: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute ICDM Data Mining Contest Chair: Qiang Yang, HKUST Sponsorship Chair: To be announced Publicity Co-Chairs: Ina Lauth, Fraunhofer IAIS (Europe) Kun Liu, IBM Almaden Research Center (North America) Exhibit and Demo Chairs To be announced Further Information ******************* ICDM09@listserv.unc.edu From ajarrah from vbi.vt.edu Sat Jan 31 17:45:20 2009 From: ajarrah from vbi.vt.edu (Abdul Salam Jarrah) Date: Sun Feb 1 12:53:38 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Algebraic Biology 09: Extended Deadline. Message-ID: <2002.128.173.100.123.1233441920.squirrel@webmail.vbi.vt.edu> [Apologies if you received multiple copies] ************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINES | EXTENDED DEADLINES | EXTENDED DEADLINES | ************************************************************** ************************************************************** * The Forth International Conference on Algebraic Biology * June 21-23, 2009 * SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA * http://www.abs-center.org/ab2009/ ************************************************************** EXTENDED DATES: NEW Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2009 NEW Paper Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2009 The Conference: June 21-23, 2009 The international conference series on algebraic biology was inaugurated in Tokyo in 2005, with the goal of providing a catalyst and focal point for an emerging new research area that uses tools from symbolic computation, algebra, algebraic geometry, and discrete mathematics to formalize and solve biological problems. This conference series is highly interdisciplinary and attracts mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and biologists working in all aspects of computational biology. The 4th conference in the series, Algebraic Biology 2009, will be held at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, in RTP, North Carolina. More details on the series are available at the conference website: http://www.abs-center.org/ab2009/ Authors are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions that present recent results including significant work-in-progress, and identify and explore new directions of research are welcome. Oral presentations of the accepted papers will be presented at the meeting. Submissions should be at most 15 pages including references, prepared in LaTeX and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. Papers and abstracts are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system. Information about the required style as well as EasyChair can be found at the conference website http://www.abs-center.org/ab2009/submission.php. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will appear in the proceedings before the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. More details can be found at the conference website: http://www.abs-center.org/ab2009/ If you have any further question, please feel free to contact any of the program committee chairs. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. The Program Committee Chairs: Katsuhisa Horimoto (k.horimoto@aist.go.jp) Elizabeth Allman (e.allman@uaf.edu) Peter Huggins (phuggins@andrew.cmu.edu) Abdul Jarrah (ajarrah@vbi.vt.edu) From tavares from fe.up.pt Fri Jan 2 13:19:18 2009 From: tavares from fe.up.pt (tavares@fe.up.pt) Date: Sat Feb 7 17:13:10 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] (no subject) Message-ID: <626bf3d4-110b-47f9-9bcb-db327b5371a3@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” within EUROSIS EUROMEDIA 2009 April 15-17, 2009, Novotel, Bruges, Belgium http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/172 (Apologies for cross-posting. We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, In recent years, extensive research has been performed to develop more and more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems. Such systems are crucial for medical specialists, allowing a deeper analysis and to understand what is going inside the human body, and therefore they play an essential role for adequate medical diagnosis and treatments. To accomplish efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research works have being done in many domains, like the ones related with medical image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis, biomechanical simulation and data visualization. The main goal of the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” is to bring together researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future. Therefore, the proposed Workshop will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics and Medical Imaging. The Workshop endeavors to contribute to obtain better solutions for more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians and researchers from these diverse fields. Due to your research activities in the field, we would like to invite you to submit a contributed paper for the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems”. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: January 20, 2009; - Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: March 20, 2009; - Authors provide camera-ready manuscript: April 15-17, 2009; - Conference Events: April 15-17, 2009. For further details please see the conference website at: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/172 We are looking forward to see you in Bruges next April. Kind regards, João Manuel R. S. Tavares (University of Porto, tavares@fe.up.pt, www.fe.up.pt/~tavares) From tavares from fe.up.pt Thu Jan 8 10:24:13 2009 From: tavares from fe.up.pt (tavares@fe.up.pt) Date: Sat Feb 7 17:13:15 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] (no subject) Message-ID: <62b63aa5-1e74-4ca0-b8d2-16565f443631@s9g2000prm.googlegroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Apologies for cross-posting) Symposium on “Visualization and Human-Computer” 7th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC2009) Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, PORTUGAL, September 7-11, 2009 http://www.dem.ist.utl.pt/esmc2009/ (We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, Within the 7th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC2009), to be held in Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-11, 2009, we are organizing the Symposium “Image Processing and Visualization in Solid Mechanics Processes”. Examples of some topics that will be considered are: Image Analysis; Image Restoration, Compression, Segmentation and Description; Object Tracking, Matching, Recognition, and Reconstruction; Visual Inspection; 3D Vision; Medical Imaging; Data Processing, Modeling and Analysis; Scientific Visualization; Enhanced Visualization; Human Computer Interaction; Virtual Reality; Simulation and Animation; Software Development for Image Processing and Visualization; Grid Computing in Image Processing and Visualization; Applications of Image Processing and Visualization. Due to your research activities in those fields, we would like to invite you to submit your work and participate in the Symposium “Image Processing and Visualization in Solid Mechanics Processes”. For instructions and submission, please access to the conference website at: http://www.dem.ist.utl.pt/esmc2009/ Please note that, when submitting your work, you should select the Symposium MS-08 – “Image Processing and Visualization in Solid Mechanics Processes”. Important dates: - Abstract submission: January 31, 2009; - Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009; - Conference Events: September 7-11, 2009. Kind regards, João Manuel R. S. Tavares (University of Porto, Portugal, tavares@fe.up.pt) Michel A. Audette (Kitware, USA, michel.audette@kitware.com) (Symposium organizers)