From william.pearson from gmail.com Sun Jul 5 05:04:08 2009 From: william.pearson from gmail.com (Bill Pearson) Date: Sun Jul 5 11:55:12 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] Course deadline 15-July-2009: Computational and Comparative Genomics Message-ID: <02b89bd3-7c51-46bd-98cf-f13caf568723@c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> Course announcement - Application deadline, July 15, 2009 Cold Spring Harbor COMPUTATIONAL & COMPARATIVE GENOMICS November 4 - 10, 2009 Application Deadline: July 15, 2009 INSTRUCTORS: Pearson, William, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Smith, Randall, Ph.D., SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA Lisa Stubbs, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Beyond BLAST and FASTA - Alignment: from proteins to genomes - This course presents a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of computational methods for extracting the maximum amount of information from protein and DNA sequence similarity through sequence database searches, statistical analysis, and multiple sequence alignment, and genome scale alignment. Additional topics include identifying signals in unaligned sequences, integration of genetic and sequence information in biological databases. This year, there will be a special focus on metagenomics and functional prediction. The course combines lectures with hands-on exercises; students are encouraged to pose challenging sequence analysis problems using their own data. The course makes extensive use of local WWW pages to present problem sets and the computing tools to solve them. Students use Windows and Mac workstations attached to a UNIX server. The course is designed for biologists seeking advanced training in biological sequence analysis, computational biology core resource directors and staff, and for scientists in other disciplines, such as computer science, who wish to survey current research problems in biological sequence analysis and comparative genomics. The primary focus of the Computational and Comparative Genomics Course is the theory and practice of algorithms used in computational biology, with the goal of using current methods more effectively and developing new algorithms. Cold Spring Harbor also offers a "Programming for Biology" course, which focuses more on software development. For additional information and the lecture schedule and problem sets for the 2008 course, see: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/cshl/ To apply to the course, fill out and send in the form at: http://meetings.cshl.edu/course/courseapp_instr.shtml Bill Pearson wrp@virginia.edu From tavares from fe.up.pt Fri Jul 31 13:43:05 2009 From: tavares from fe.up.pt (tavares@fe.up.pt) Date: Fri Jul 31 22:42:16 2009 Subject: [Computational-biology] CompIMAGE, Buffalo-Niagara, May 5-7, 2010 - Announce & Call for papers Message-ID: <0ec20376-00be-4081-ac98-c6fe151a9524@v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Apologies for cross-posting.) International Symposium CompIMAGE 2010 http://www.fe.up.pt/CompIMAGE Announce and Call for papers We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, We would like to kindly invite you to take part in the International Symposium CompIMAGE - Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications (http://www.fe.up.pt/ CompIMAGE) which will take place in Buffalo-Niagara in May 5-7, 2010. The deadline for submission is October 1, 2009. The accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Moreover, extended versions of the best papers will be published in journal special issues. We hope that we will have the pleasure to benefit from your valuable contribution, enriching the scientific quality and the presentation panel of CompIMAGE'10. Best Regards, Reneta P. Barneva (State University of New York, USA) Valentin E. Brimkov (State University of New York, USA) Renato M. Natal Jorge (University of Porto, Portugal) Jo?o Manuel R. S. Tavares (University of Porto, Portugal) ------------------------------------------------------ International Symposium CompIMAGE'10, May 5-7, 2010 Buffalo-Niagara, NY, USA *** http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/barneva/CompIMAGE10 *** INVITED SPEAKERS: - Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman (Nobel Laureate, President of the Hauptman- Woodward Medical Research Institute) - Prof. Chandrajit L. Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin - Prof. Jorge S. Marques , Instituto Superior T?cnico, Lisbon, Portugal - Prof. Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Prof. Yongjie (Jessica) Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University. PUBLICATIONS: Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for journal publication. TOPICS (not limited to): - Image Processing and Analysis - Image Segmentation - 2D and 3D Reconstruction - Discrete Tomography - Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression - Objects Tracking - Medical Imaging - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization - Biometric Person Identification - Computational Crystallography - Motion and Deformation Analysis - Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Scientific Data Visualization - Large Data Set Visualization - Simulation - Theoretical Foundations of Object Modeling - Digital Geometry for Computer Imaging - Shape Modeling IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper submission due: October 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: November 10, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: December 10, 2009 SOCIAL PROGRAM: Tour to the famous Niagara Falls. Pre- or post-symposium tours to Genesee Country Village, Erie Canal, Corning Museum of Glass and Letchworth State Park, called the Grand Canyon of the East.