International Workshop
Integrative Bioinformatics
4th annual meeting
10th to 12th September 2007
University of Ghent, Belgium

Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
 
 
  The 2008 Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop will be held in Wittenberg, Germany on 20-22 August
  Biological data are scattered across hundreds of biological databases and thousands of scientific journals. Current high throughput genomics technologies generate large quantities of high dimensional data. Microarray, NMR, mass spectrometry, protein chips, gel electrophoresis data, Yeast-Two-Hybrid, QTL mapping, gene silencing and knockout experiments are all examples of technologies that capture thousands of data points, often in single experiments. The challenge for Integrative Bioinformatics is to capture, model, integrate and analyse these data in a consistent way to provide new and deeper insights into complex biological systems.
  This, fourth workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and others working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. There will be opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches or their practical applications.
 
  Topics
  • Database Integration
  • Combined dry and wetlab studies
  • Molecular Databases / Data Warehouses
  • Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases
  • Prediction and Integration of Metabolic and Regulatory Networks
  • Genotype – phenotype linkage
  • Protein-Protein-Interactions
  • Microarray Modeling and Analyses
  • Integrative Approaches for Drug Design
  • Computational Infrastructure for Biotechnology
  • Text and data mining
  
  • Virtual Cell Modeling
  • Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression
  • Identification of Gene Regulatory Networks
  • Computational Systems Biology
  • Computational Proteomics
  • Optimization of Workflow Management in Bioinformatics
  • Bio Ontologies
  • Quality and consistency of ontologies
  • Integrative modeling and simulation frameworks
  • Integrative data and text mining approaches
 
Invited speakers
Prof Carole Goble, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
myExperiment: A MySpace for the Self-serving Bioinformatician
Prof Søren Brunak, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Preliminary title: Integrating data for interactome analysis across organisms
Dr David Searls, Senior Vice President, Informatics, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, USA
Preliminary title: Integrative Drug Discovery
Dr Luis Serrano, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Structure-based prediction of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions
  Important dates
We have extended our deadlines due to clashes with EU proposal submission dates
28thMay 16thJune 2007Paper submission deadline
2nd 16thJuly 2007Notification of acceptance for papers (Delayed until approx. 25th July Results announced)
16th 3rdAugust 2007Camera ready paper submission deadline
20thAugust 2007Registration deadline
27thAugust 2007Poster submission deadline
 
  Sponsorship
 The European Science Foundation have kindly agreed to sponsor this workshop as part of their functional genomics programme. This enables us to extend the workshop programme and we are able to offer some travel and subsistence bursaries for research students (now all awarded).
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact BioScope-IT at +32 484 995 775 or services@bioscope-it.be.
  Contact
 Karen Morris, BAB Department, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Herts. AL5 2JQ, UK
karen.morris@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01582 763133 ext 2813
fax: 01582 467907
 
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