http://www.eccb12.org/workshops#ws2

http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2012/

Keynote Speaker
- Mauno Vihinen PhD, Professor of Medical Structural Biology (Lund). VARIATION ONTOLOGY: ontology for standardized, systematic description of effects and consequences of variations.

Important Dates
Abstract submission       June 15 2012
Full paper submission     July 1 2012
Acceptance notification   July 30 2012
Final manuscript             Aug 15 2012
AIMM2012 Workshop      Sept 9 2012

Workshop Themes

* Mutation Nomenclature, Databases and Metadata: Design, Content, Accuracy.
* Mutation Data Integration, Phenotype Ontologies, Semantic Services and Reuse.
* Semantic Integration and Interpretation of data linked to mutations and diseases
* Impacts of Mutations: Prediction and Bootstrapping.
* Extraction and grounding of mutations and impact annotations from scientific literature
* System Evaluations and Benchmarking

http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2012/themes.html

http://www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2010/themes.html

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/aimm.html

*Submissions*

We invite workshop papers (3000 words / 8 pages) and demonstrations. Early Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Manuscripts should be focused around a specific challenge with a biomedical context where they suggest a solution, demonstrate feasibility and possibly also a meaningful evaluation.

Pre-submission enquiries and variations to the deadlines above may be made in consultation with the Chris Baker bakerc@unb.ca

* Author instructions can be obtained by sending an email to bmcmutations@gmail.com an automated reply  will be sent and complete submissions should be uploaded to Easychair:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimm2012

Journal Special Issue

A special issue in a biomedical scientific journal will be produced of the best contributions to the Workshop Proceedings. Papers have to address genuine themes relevant to the: Annotation, Interpretation and Management of Mutations (see below)*

Workshop Organizers / Special Issue Editors

-  Christopher J. O. Baker – University of New Brunswick, Canada
-  Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK

The 12th Workshop on Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI 2012)

http://algo12.fri.uni-lj.si/?file=wabi

September 10-12, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Key dates
Submissions deadline: May 18th
Notification to authors: June 10th
Final version due: June 22nd

WABI 2012 will be part of ALGO 2012, hosted by the University of Lubljana. WABI is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

Scope
All research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The emphasis is mainly on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.

Topics
Original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) or state-of-the-art surveys are solicited in all aspects of algorithms in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology including, but not limited to:
*      Exact and approximate algorithms for sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment and assembly, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression, molecular pathways and network, proteomics, functional genomics, and drug design.
*      Methods, software, and dataset repositories for development and testing of such algorithms and their underlying models, as well as high-performance computing approaches to computationally hard learning and optimization problems.
*      Novel approaches to analyzing and modeling next-generation sequence data, including sequence assembly, population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and ncRNA sequencing.

Call for Papers
Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages. Each paper must contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers. All submissions must be made online, through the EasyChair submission system (http://wwweasychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2012). You need to register on that web site before submitting; you may update your submission(s) up to the last minute. A standard PDF file must be received by 23:59 (GMT) on May 18, 2012 in order for your submission to be considered. In case of problems, authors may, by prior arrangement, email a PDF file to the chairs, Ben Raphael and Jijun Tang.

Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors notify the program chairs; if published in a journal, such a contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI proceedings.

Proceedings
Proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics; papers will be allotted 12 pages.
Previous proceedings of WABI appeared in LNCS/LNBI volumes 2149 (Aarhus 2001), 2452 (Rome 2002), 2812 (Budapest 2003), 3240 (Bergen 2004), 3692 (Mallorca 2005), 4175 (Zurich, 2006), 4645 (Philadelphia 2007), 5251 (Karlsruhe 2008), 5724 (Philadelphia 2009), 6293 (Liverpool 2010), and 6833 (Saarbrucken 2011).

By arrangement with the Editor-in-Chief, selected papers from WABI will be invited for an extended publication in a special issue of the BMC Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

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Jijun Tang
Co-Chair, WABI 2012
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina, USA

Several international senior scientists will give general lectures and hands-on sessions on their topics within the field of protein evolution.  Around 20 students (Master and early PhD level) will have the opportunity to join the summerschool and present their work in short oral presentations.  In addition, there will be plenty of time for discussion with senior scientists about the students’ projects and other questions.  Deadline for application is May 1st, 2012.  More information on the summerschool can be found on our website:http://www.eeslmu.de/eeswiki/Summer_school_2012

La CCSSS12 tendrá lugar entre el 2 y el 31 de Julio en las instalaciones del CESGA (Santiago de Compostela). El programa formativo de la escuela se compone de varios cursos teórico-prácticos centrados en las áreas de Computación y Cálculo Científico. Los alumnos dispondrán además de tutorías personalizadas atendidas por el profesorado y el personal técnico del CESGA.

Información detallada sobre la escuela (profesorado, cursos, precios, etc) e inscripción en la dirección:

http://www.cesga.es/SummerSchool2012

Cualquier duda puede contactar con nosotros en la dirección de correo ccsss12@cesga.es y en el teléfono 981-569810.

Un cordial saludo,

Carmen Cotelo Queijo
Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)
Avda. de Vigo s/n. Campus Vida
15705 – Santiago de Compostela. SPAIN

The event is organised by Amos Tanay and Eran Segal and will take place at the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel), from June 3-6 of 2012. As an EpiGeneSys training course it is aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

The course will include introductory lectures by leading experts in the field, guided activities in small groups, a trip to Jerusalem and an opportunity to experience the vibrant systems biology community at the Weizmann Institute. It will end with a one day research symposium discussing advances on the interface between epigenetics and systems biology.
We have assembled an excellent line up of speakers from both fields:
Uri Alon (WIS), Ido Amit (WIS),Naama Barkai (WIS), Howard Cedar (Hebrew U),Nir Friedman (Hebrew U), Nir Friedman (WIS), Yakub Hanna (WIS), Nick Luscombe (EBI), Manolis Kellis (MIT), Eran Meshorer (Hebrew U), Tzachi Pilpel (WIS), Dirk Schubeler (FMI), Itamar Simon (Hebrew U), Ron Shamir (TAU), Yoav Soen (WIS), Eran Segal (WIS), Amos Tanay (WIS)

Applicants are expected to have an active interest in epigenetics and/or systems biology, and preference will be given to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who are applying or preparing to apply interdisciplinary methodologies in their work. Participants  will be selected by the organising committee based on their background in systems biology and epigenetics, their research goals and the submitted poster abstract.
Registration is free (covering meeting costs and accommodation, which will be arranged by EpiGeneSys). To register please go to www.epigenesys.eu (registration on the website is necessary).

Application deadline is April 14th.

We hope that you will take the opportunity and participate in this world-class meeting!

Best wishes,
Dörthe

The GRIB EXPO is opened to academic and industrial organisations within the PRBB and beyond. It will give you the opportunity to present your know-how to a wide scientific community within and outside PRBB.

The GRIB EXPO will take place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Sala d’exposicions, Ramón Trias Fargas, 25-27.

Please confirm your attendance by email to Carina Oliver, coliver@imim.es

See poster of the event: gribexpo_2012flyer_editora_5_187_1

this is a short reminder about upcoming deadlines for the 11th European
Conference on Computational Biology ECCB’12 on September 9-12, 2012 in
Basel, Switzerland:

* 30. March 2012: Deadline for conference proceeding papers
* 1. May 2012: Deadline for UniProt 10 satellite meeting abstracts
* 1. June 2012: Deadline for conference poster abstracts

For more details on open calls, please see: http://www.eccb12.org/calls

All the best,

Dagmar Iber and Torsten Schwede
ECCB’12 conference chairs

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ECCB’12 – European Conference on Computational Biology 2012
9-12 September 2012, Basel Switzerland
http://eccb12.org

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The research project is typically carried out during a 6-9 months period, finishing with a presentation in June 2013 in a joint event with other MSc programs at the CEXS department at UPF. The start date for the 2012-2013 course projects will be October, but this date is flexible depending on the specific agreement between the host group and the student. Notice that students must attend two subjects during the first term, one of them being semipresential.

If you are interested to host a student during the course 2012-2013 fill in the attached form and send it by e-mail to nuria.centeno@upf.edu before April 4th

The number of proposed projects typically largely exceeds the number of students (23 students are currently doing their research project with a total of 45 project proposals last year) so we will appreciate an accurate description of the project to help students make a decision.

Do not hesitate contacting me for any question that may arise.
Best regards,

Nuria B. Centeno,
Coordinator master’s