Directores: Dr. D. Federico Morán Abad, Dr. D. Alfonso Valencia Herrera y Dr. D. Luis Vázquez Martínez.

Coordinador: Andrés Cañada Pallarés.

Fechas y horario: Del 9 al 27 de julio de 2012. Mañanas de 9:00 a 14:00 horas.

Nº de plazas: 20

Nº de créditos de libre configuración: 7,5 (sólo alumnos UCM)

Nº de créditos de grado: 3 (solo alumnos UCM).

Lugar de celebración: Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Precio de la matrícula: 900 Euros.

Ayudas: Las de carácter general.

Perfil del alumno: El curso está abierto a doctores, licenciados o estudiantes de ciencias o ingeniería con cierta formación en biología molecular y conocimientos básicos de informática. El curso se impartirá en inglés en su totalidad (o al menos en una buena parte del programa), por tanto se requiere el conocimiento de este idioma.

Más información:

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Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2012 (TBC 2012)

Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 14-17, 2012

http://www.snubi.org/TBC2012/

Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2012 will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea with a mix of computer biologists, scientists, engineers, epidemiologists, physicists, statisticians, and physicians together to create unique intellectual environment.

TBC 2012 will aim to highlight the multi-disciplinary nature research field and provide an opportunity to bring together and exchange ideas between genomics, bioinformatics, translational research, and medical informatics researchers. Translational bioinformatics is a rapidly emerging field of biomedical data sciences and informatics technologies that efficiently translate basic molecular, genetic, cellular, and clinical data into health products or implications.

Topics:
. Next-Gen Sequencing for Personal Genomics, Cancer Genomics and Metagenomics
. Rare and common variants of human genome
. Epigenomics, non-coding RNAs, and DNA methylation analysis
. Genome-Phenome-Envirome Network Analysis
. Microarray analysis and functional genomics for disease
. Biomarkers, Drug Discovery and Pharmacogenomics
. Biomedical Text/Data Mining and Visualization
. Network Biology/Medicine and Pathway/Regulation Analysis
. Biomedical Intelligence, Clinical Informatics, and Health Record
. Semantic Biology/Medicine and Biomedical Ontologies

Important Dates:
. Paper submission due on June 30, 2012
. Notification of paper acceptance on August 11, 2012
. Poster submission due on September 1, 2012
. Final manuscript of full paper due on Oct. 14, 2012
Selected manuscripts are reviewed by the journal editors again and will be published early 2012. Authors can choose their manuscripts to be published in the sponsor journals or TBC 2011 Proceedings. Six papers from TBC 2011  have been published in JAMIA.

Submissions:
All accepted papers of TBC 2012 will be recommended to be published as journal papers by JAMIA (J Am Med Inform Assoc), BMC BioData Mining, Healthcare Informatics Research, and Genomics & Informatics. Full papers are limited to 12 pages, including title, abstract, figures, tables, text, and bibliography. Papers must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers will be submitted electronically in MS Word, postscript or PDF format through the conference website

Contact Information:
If you have any question regarding this CFP and paper submission, please email to jeong225@snu.ac.kr or refer to conference site at www.snubi.org/TBC2012/.

Please consider to contribute submitting papers that covers the interface between bioinformatics and medical informatics.

The IFIP/IMIA event will be held as part of the 22nd IFIP World Computer Congress 2012 (http://www.wcc-2012.org/).

Important dates
Submission of papers: May 15, 2012
Notification to authors: June 15, 2012
Camera-ready copies: September 1, 2012

Conference topics:
Papers offering research contributions as well as papers providing practical cases are solicited for submission to the conference. Papers will be selected on criteria such as novelty, soundness and technical quality and interest to the participants. Also proposals for panel discussions are invited. Papers may present topics including but not limited to:

Applications:
• Personalized medicine
• Cancer informatics
• Population genetics
• Bioinformatics approaches for diseases study
• Genomics and proteomics in medicine
• Analysis of gene expression, mutation, variations and next generation sequencing
• Linking genotype with phenotype

Tools:
• Databases, data management and integration
• Query languages, information retrieval, interoperability, biomedical ontologies and
semantics
• Knowledge discovery, machine learning, pattern recognition and text mining
• Data visualization
• High-performance, grid and cloud computing

Contact
Prof.dr. Arie Hasman
e-mail: a.hasman@amc.uva.nl

http://www.ifip.org/bim2012/

Accepted papers will be published by Springer as edited post-conference proceedings in the IFIP AICT (Advances in Information and Communication Technology) Series.

Bioinformatics Open Days event will occur in the 1st and 2nd of March of 2012 at the University of Minho in Braga. It will be a great opportunity to bring together a community interested in the field of Bioinformatics.

During these days, several activities will bring the major Bioinformatics subjects to discussion. Among them you will find posters and oral presentations from invited speakers and an open forum with representatives from Bioinformatics Industry working in Europe.

Bioinformatics Open Days will be a privileged event where you can get new insights on Bioinformatics and find the latest advancements in the Academic research and Industry.

We gladly accept posters submissions regarding any topic related to Bioinformatics and hope to meet you in Bioinformatics Open Days!

Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology
June 18-22, 2012, Hameau de l’Etoile (France)
http://www.lirmm.fr/mceb2012/

The subject is evolution, which is considered at different scales,
from genes to populations. The focus is on the mathematical and
computational tools and concepts, which form an essential basis
of evolutionary studies. The meeting will bring together researchers
originating from various disciplines: mathematics, computer science,
phylogenetics and population genetics. Ten keynote speakers will
introduce a field of research and discuss their own work in this
field. Afternoon will be for short presentations and posters, with
plenty of time for discussions, hiking and visits. The number of
attendees will be limited (~60) to favor exchanges.

The meeting will take place at Hameau de l’Etoile, in the Montpellier
region (France). The dates are June 18-22, that is, just before
SMBE 2012 that starts June 23 in the evening at Dublin (Ireland).
Conference fees including accommodation (4 nights, 18 to 22), meals,
coffee breaks, buses, etc., will range from ~300 € to ~425 € depending
on the room type. Some financial support will be available for local
fees of PhDs and postdocs

Keynote speakers:

* Michael Blum (CNRS – TIMC, FR).
Approximate Bayesian Computation: theory, algorithms and applications.

* Oliver Eulenstein (Iowa State University, US).
Supertrees and phylogenomics.

* Arnaud Estoup (INRA – CBGP, FR).
ABC (Approximate Bayesian Computation) methods to make inference about
population history from molecular data: principles and applications.

* Vincent Moulton (University of East Anglia, UK).
Recent progress on phylogenetic networks.

* Rasmus Nielsen (Berkeley, US).
Models and methods to reveal molecular adaptation.

* Noah Rosenberg (University of Michigan, US).
Models and methods at the intra/inter species frontier.

* Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg, DE).
High Performance Phylogenetics.

* Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, NZ).
Probabilistic models of evolutionary trees.

* Edward Susko (Dalhousie University, CA).
Testing phylogenies.

* Simon Tavaré (Cambridge University, UK).
From evolutionary biology to development and cancer.

Organizers: Olivier Gascuel and Jean-Michel Marin

See the web site for more details and pre-registration (before Feb 25)

The conference has an outstanding programme and list of speakers. For more information visit the website:

http://www.icclymphocyte2012.org/

The meeting will be an international conference on Drug Discovery from a protein perspective, covering most of the initial steps in drug discovery and preclinical studies (new protein targets, protein target validation, new methodologies and tools for structural and functional characterization, experimental and computational high-throughput screening, etc.). We wish the conference to represent a venue for gathering active researchers on drug discovery, with strong roots in the scientific and academic communities to discuss recent developments and future challenges in the field.

All the info at http://bifi.es/events/bifi2012/

Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/

AIM:

WSMBio 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on bioinformatics at different levels. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate (and eventually advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science, Biology and Medicine. Other students (for instance, from Mathematics or Engineering) are welcome too.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

There is no overlap in the class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Dan Gusfield (U California Davis), ReCombinatorics: The Algorithmics and Combinatorics of Phylogenetic Networks with Recombination [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
- Andrey Rzhetsky (U Chicago), Trees, Networks, and their Use in Systems Biology [introductory, 6 hours]
- Robert Stevens (U Manchester) & James Malone (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton), Bio-Ontologies [introductory/intermediate, 4 hours]
- Martin Tompa (U Washington Seattle), Comparative Sequence Analysis in Molecular Biology [introductory/intermediate, 4 hours]
- Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid), A Bioinformatics Perspective of Personalized Medicine [advanced, 4 hours]
- Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore), Using Biological Networks for Protein Function Prediction, Biomarker Identification, and Other Problems in Computational Biology [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]
- Ying Xu (U Georgia), Cancer Bioinformatics [advanced, 8 hours]
- Zohar Yakhini (Agilent Laboratories), Algorithmics and Statistics in the Analysis of High Throughput Molecular Measurement Data [intermediate/advanced, 6 hours]

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/Registration.php

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes. The rule is:

1 hour =

- 10 euros (for payments until December 11, 2011),
- 15 euros (for payments after December 11, 2011).

PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

The fees must be paid to the School’s bank account:

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 – Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention WSMBio 2012 and your full name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.
- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that they gave the bank transfer order by the deadline.
- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled due to the unavailability of the instructor.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.

CERTIFICATES:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended, their contents, and their duration.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: October 30, 2011
Starting of the registration: October 30, 2011
Early registration deadline: December 11, 2011
Starting of the School: February 20, 2012
End of the School: February 24, 2012

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/

POSTAL ADDRESS:

WSMBio 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputació de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Metabolomics-2012 organizing committee anticipates over 300 participants with 100 speakers from 20 different countries to attend this premier event..

For updated scientific program PS: Scientific Program

Based on your expertise, we would like to invite you to give a speech in any of the sessions.
Please find the track details at http://www.omicsonline.org/metabolomics2012/callforabstracts.php
If already registered or sent an abstract, please ignore.

Please submit your proposed title of speech at: http://www.omicsonline.org/metabolomics2012/abstract.php
or by e-mail to metabolomics2012@omicsonline.org or fax to +1-650-618-1414.

Why to Attend?
• Opportunity to attend the presentations delivered by Eminent Scientists from all over the world
• Selected contributions will be published in Journal of Computer Science & System Biology and Journal of Drug Metabolism & Toxicology
• Participation in sessions on specific topics on which the conference is expected to achieve progress
• Global networking: In transferring and exchanging Ideas
• Share your excitement in promoting Health care, Clinical R & D
• Conference brings together Scientific Researchers & Business Entrepreneurs and Pharma, Biotech & Healthcare Industry Developers

Special Issues:
• We are pleased to inform you that all abstracts will be published in the respective OMICS Group Journals
• Each abstract will receive a Digital Object Identification Number (DOI) provided by CrossRef
• Also, the abstracts will be released as a special issue in the OMICS Group Journal

Please confirm your participation by registering at Metabolomics-2012 as follows:
Register online: http://omicsonline.org/metabolomics2012/registration.php
Register offline: http://www.omicsonline.org/metabolomics2012/pdfs/electronicregistrationform.pdf

We look forward to see you at San Francisco.

With Best Wishes,
Ms. Sravani Bhagam
for Metabolomics – 2012 Organizing Committee
OMICS Group Conferences, USA
5716 CorsaAve., Suite110
Westlake, Los Angeles
CA91362-7354, USA
Phone:+1-650-268-9744
Fax:+1-650-618-1414
Toll free: +1-800-216-6499
E-mail: metabolomics2012@omicsgroup.com

Dr. Kazuyuki Nakamura
HUPO Council Member, Japan

Dr. Narasimham L. Parinandi
The Ohio State University College of Medicine, USA

Dr. Bernd Lepenies
Max Planck Institute, Germany

Dr. Chulso Moon
The South-Western Medical Centre, USA     Dr. Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu
C.N.R. Bologna Research Area, Italy

Dr. Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf
National Research Council of Canada, Canada

Dr. Jimmy Efird
University of North Carolina, USA

Dr. Xue-Long Sun
Cleveland State University, USA