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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
As a prelude to ISMB/ECCB 2013 in Berlin, Germany this July, an exceptional collection of pre-conference Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Satellite Meetings (SM) are being organized to focus on many of today's important topics of scientific research and inquiry. Be sure to explore the websites of the SIGs and SMs that capture your interest, and prepare a submission if presenting your work in the meeting is of interest to you. For additional general information on these events, please visit the ISMB/ECCB2013 SIGs and Satellite Meetings website.
Satellite Meetings (SM)
3Dsig Structural Bioinformatics & Computational Biophysics
Date: July 19-20, 2013
Homepage: http://bcb.med.usherbrooke.ca/3dsig13/
3Dsig Structural Bioinformatics & Computational Biophysics is accepting abstract submissions for our poster-laptop session from which the 20 leading abstracts will be selected for oral presentation.
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2013.
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CAMDA 2013 – Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
The conference focuses on novel and existing approaches to the analysis of life sciences' Big Data including a challenge on two big heterogeneous data sets.
Date: July 19-20, 2013
Homepage: www.camda.info
Call for extended paper abstracts and poster abstracts: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=camda2013
Extended paper abstract deadline: May 20, 2013
Poster abstract deadline: May 25, 2013
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Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
Automated Function Prediction (AFP)
The mission of the Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG) is to bring together computational and experimental biologists who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product functional annotation, to share ideas and create collaborations. As part of our goal to stimulate development of novel protein function prediction methods and their evaluation, we are conducting the Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation or CAFA experiment.
Date: July 20, 2013
Homepage: http://biofunctionprediction.org
Submission Deadline: April 13, 2013
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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC)
BOSC covers the wide range of open source bioinformatics software packages that have been developed and adopted by the community, and encompasses the growing movement of Open Science, with its focus on transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance.
Date: July 19-20, 2013
Home Page: www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2013
Call for talk and poster abstracts opens March 1, 2013
Submission deadline: April 12, 2013
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BioLINK SIG
Roles for text mining in biomedical knowledge discovery and translational medicine
Date: July 20, 2013
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/biolinksig2013/
Call for Papers and Poster Abstracts https://sites.google.com/site/biolinksig2013/cfp
Paper (short and long) deadline: April 12, 2013
Poster deadline: May 20, 2013
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Bio-Ontologies 2013
The Bio-Ontologies SIG is a forum for discussion of the latest and most innovative research in the application of ontologies
Date: July 20, 2013
Homepage: www.bio-ontologies.org.uk
Call for Papers, Flash updates and Posters www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/submissions
Submission Deadline: April 12th, 2013
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HiTSeq SIG 2013: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
HiTSeq provides a forum for in depth presentations of novel algorithms and computational applications for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data in multiple biology domains.
Date: July 19-20, 2013
Homepage: http://hitseq.org
Paper submission deadline: March 17, 2013
Abstract submission deadline: May 13, 2013
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IRB-SIG: The 10th Integrative RNA Biology Special Interest Group Meeting (formerly AS-SIG)
The IRB-SIG focus is on combination of computational and experimental techniques used to derive new RNA Biology.
Date: July 19, 2013
Homepage: www.alternative-splicing.org/irb-sig-13/ (see website for confirmed speakers)
Accepting abstract submissions for: talks, posters.
Other:
- SIG dinner, Friday the 19th.
- Limited travel support will also be available for students/postdocs
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Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MLSB)
The aim of this workshop is to contribute to the cross-fertilization between the research in machine learning methods and their applications to systems biology (i.e., complex biological and medical questions) by bringing together method developers and experimentalists.
Date: July 19-20
Homepage: http://mlsb.cc
Call for contributions (talk/poster) http://mlsb.cc/cfc/
Submission deadline: May 5, 2013
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Mass Spectrometry Special Interest Group (MS-SIG 2013)
Beyond the Proteomics: At MS-SIG 2013, we will discuss 1) Bioinformatics challenges in high-throughput proteomics, 2) Omics data integration, and 3) Proteomics application in biology and medicine with a great line-up of speakers, Juergen Cox (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry), Oliver Kohlbacher (Eberhard Karls University Tubingen), Olga Vitek (Purdue University), Mikhail Savitski (Cellzome), and Lars Malmstrom (ETH Zurich).
Date: July 19, 2013
Homepage: http://igenomed2.stanford.edu/Proteomics2013_mssig/
Abstract Submissions: http://igenomed2.stanford.edu/Proteomics2013_mssig/AbstractSubmission.html
1st abstract deadline: March 15, 2013
2nd abstract deadline: May 13, 2013
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Network Biology (NetBio) SIG
The NetBio SIG will focus on two major areas: (1) the development of network-related tools and resources, and (2) the application of network analysis and visualization in the study of biology, synthetic biology and medicine.
Date: July 19, 2013
Homepage: http://nrnb.org/netbiosig/
Call for: 1-page abstracts for talks and posters
Submission deadline: April 22, 2013
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RegGenSIG - Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group
The RegGenSIG meeting focuses on bioinformatics for regulatory genomics, fostering a collaborative community wherein scientists convene to discuss difficult research problems in computational regulatory genomics.
Date: July 20, 2013
Homepage: http://light.ece.ohio.edu/~reggen/2013/
Call for Extended Abstracts: Oral presentation extended abstracts (2-3 pages) should be submitted to
Submission Deadline: April 27, 2013
Call for Posters: For poster presentations, authors should submit a 250 word to
Submission Deadline: May 18, 2013
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SNP-SIG
The primary goal of the SNP-SIG is to outline and discuss the recent advances in the methodology for the annotation and analysis of genomic variation data.
Date: July 19th 2013
Homepage: http://snp-sig.biofold.org
Call for Posters: http://snp-sig.biofold.org/pa.html
Call for Presentations: http://snp-sig.biofold.org/op.html
Submission deadline: March 22, 2013
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We look forward to seeing you at these events, and at ISMB/ECCB 2013!
Dear ISCB Member,
The nomination period for the 2013 ISCB Class of Fellows is now open! If you know of a member that you believe has earned his or her place among ISCB Fellows through exceptional and exemplary contributions to the field of computational biology and bioinformatics, please nominate today. Since 2009, the leadership of ISCB has been honoring our most distinctive members as Fellows, and this is your chance to name our 2013 Class of Fellows. Information about the ISCB Fellows Program, nomination requirements, and selection criteria can be found at www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows.
The nomination form is available at www.iscb.org/fellow-nomination. (As only members can nominate, login is required; if you are not a current member, please renew your membership today!) The nomination deadline is April 30, 2013.
Thank you for your consideration and nomination.
Sincerely,
Alonso Valencia, Chair, ISCB Fellows Committee
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
Just a few days remain to submit a proposal to conduct a Workshop at ISMB/ECCB 2013 in Berlin, Germany, this July.
Final Call for Workshop Proposals - deadline February 8, 2013
Workshops are two hour sessions held during ISMB/ECCB 2013 and covers a broad interest of topics not primarily research oriented. The purpose of the workshop track is to bring together people with common interests to discuss defined topics. Workshops are viewed as sessions with more structure than the "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) and a format that can include mulitple talks and ample discussion time. Previous workshops have included Funding Opportunities, Education in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics Core Facilities.
ISMB/ECCB 2013 takes place July 19-23, at the Messe Berlin (ICC Berlin), Germany. For two days preceding the conference, additional opportunities including Satellite Meetings, Junior Principal Investigator Symposium, Student Council Symposium, and a selection of Special Interest Group Meetings and Tutorials.
Registration opens April 1, 2013. We look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
Christine Orengo, Workshops Chair, ISMB/ECCB 2013
In November 2012, ISCB joined the Initiative for Science in Europe, the research community, industry leaders, and concerned citizens in urging the European Union to protect scientific research funding from budget cuts. The European Council responded in January 2013, with President Herman Van Rompuy noting the Society’s concerns regarding research funding in the future multiannual financial framework.
Cabinet Member Lukasz Kolinski stated that negotiations are still ongoing with a view to find unanimity among the Member States. He reported that an agreement may be possible in the beginning of 2013, according to bilateral talks and discussion within the European Council that took place November 22-23, 2012.
ISCB strongly believes that investment in research, innovation and education is the best way to ensure economic success and a vibrant, healthy society. Scientific progress depends on basic research to meet global challenges.
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Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
The deadline for submitting abstracts for Oral Presentations for The Next NGS Challenge, is
this Friday, February 15th!
Please consider submitting an abstract (click here) and participating in this exciting conference.
The Next NGS Challenge Conference, a joint event of the EU COST Action SeqAhead, the EMBnet, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) and the 7FP Project STATegra, is dedicated to the presentation of innovative computational approaches to the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.
The conference will be held in Valencia, Spain, on May 14-16, 2013.
The Conference will consist of keynote lectures, oral presentations and lively poster sessions. The organizers invite submissions that describe novel applications of NGS, as well as bioinformatic algorithms for data processing and analysis. Submissions dealing with efficient solutions to the management and storage of these large datasets are also welcomed.
Registration is open, with an early registration discount available until March 15, 2013.
You can find further information at the Conference site: www.thenextngschallenge.org/.
We look forward to seeing you in Spain!
Ana Conesa, CIPF (Spain)
Chair, The Next NGS Conference 2013