From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Mar 2 05:42:18 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5C71C17B78; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 05:42:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 1) id 6093E17A78; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 05:42:13 +0000 (GMT) To: bionews@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.announce Date: 1 Mar 2000 12:36:40 -0000 From: johanne@phage.cbs.dtu.dk ("Johanne Keiding") Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Subject: Bioinformatics2000 Message-Id: <20000302054213.6093E17A78@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk BIOINFORMATICS 2000 - ANNOUNCEMENT Elsinore, Denmark, April 27 - 30, 2000 http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/bioinformatics2000/ Bioinformatics2000 is the second, major international bioinformatics meeting in Scandinavia. It is organized jointly by Swedish, Norwegian and Danish bioinformatics groups. The aim is to provide up-to-date accounts of new developments in bioinformatics, both from a basic science, technology development, and industrial point of view. SPEAKERS (all confirmed): Gene Myers Mathias Uhlén David Eisenberg Ken Fasman Claire O'Donovan David Baker Andrej Sali Michael Ashburner Rolf Apweiler Christopher Ahlberg Søren Schandorff Willie Taylor Sean Eddy Pavel Pevzner David Haussler Martin Vingron Bernhard Palsson Aviv Regev Kenneth Paigen Daniel P. McCurdy The preliminary programme for Bioinformatics 2000 is now ready (see below). Please note that the deadline for early registration is March 6. For more information and registration see: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/bioinformatics2000/ - or contact conference secretary Johanne Keiding: e-mail: johanne@cbs.dtu.dk phone: +45 45 25 24 77, fax: +45 45 93 15 85 We warmly welcome you to Elsinore! Soren Brunak & Anders Krogh Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark Gunnar von Heijne & Arne Elofsson Department of Biochemistry, Stockholm University Erik Sonnhammer & Bengt Persson Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Bo Servenius AstraZeneca R&D, Lund Inge Jonassen Department of Informatics, University of Bergen The groups collaborate in SocBiN - Society for Bioinformatics in the Nordic countries (see: www.socbin.org/) __________________________________________________________________ PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME ********************* Thursday, April 27 ------------------ 14.00 - 14.15 Søren Brunak: Opening Remarks Bioinformatics and the Human Genome * Chairman: Gunnar von Heijne 14.15 - 15.00 Beyond the Genome: Moving Toward Molecular Medicine. Daniel P. McCurdy, Life Sciences, IBM Corporation 15.00 - 15.35 The Human Proteomics Initiative. Claire O'Donovan, EMBL Outstation, EBI, Cambridge Coffee 16.05 - 16.40 Visualization Tools for Analysis of Genome Data. Mathias Uhlén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 16.40 - 17.15 On Beyond Genomes: Embedding an Informatics Mind-set into Pharmaceutical R&D. Ken Fasman, Astra Bioinformatics Center 19.00 Dinner Evening "Get-together" Friday, April 28 ---------------- Structure and Function Prediction * Chairman: Arne Elofsson 9.00 - 9.45 From Genome Sequences to Protein Functions. David Eisenberg, UCLA 9.45 - 10.20 Progress in ab initio Protein Structure Prediction. David Baker, University of Washington Coffee 10.50 - 11.25 Comparative Protein Structure Modeling of Genes and Genomes. Andrej Sali, Rockefeller University, New York 11.25 - 12.00 Improved Empirical Statistics for Similarity Searches Tim Bailey, University of California, San Diego 12.00 - 12.35 Comparative Genomics: Surveys of a Finite Parts List Mark Gerstein, Yale University Lunch Databases * Chairman: Bo Servenius 14.15 - 15.00 The Gene Ontology Project - helping Users of Genome Databases. Michael Ashburner, EMBL Outstation, EBI, Cambridge 15.00 - 15.35 Exploring the Knowledge about Proteins: SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, InterPro. Rolf Apweiler, EMBL Outstation, EBI, Cambridge Coffee Short break 16.05 - 16.40 Large Scale Decision Making: Enabling Scientists and Researchers through R&D Wide Decision Support Architectures. Christopher Ahlberg, Spotfire 16.40 - 17.15 ISIS, an Intron Information System, Reveals the high Frequency of Alternative Splicing in the Human Genome. Soren Schandorff, University of Copenhagen 17.30 - 18.00 Plenary meeting with SocBIN 19.00 Banquet Saturday, April 29 ------------------ Algorithms * Chairman: Inge Jonassen 10.00 - 10.45 Blundell's Bus. Willie Taylor, MRC, NIMR Coffee 11.15 - 11.50 Computational Genome Screens for Noncoding RNA Genes. Sean Eddy, Washington University 11.50 - 12.25 Proteomics in Post-Genomic Era: Finding Post-Translational Protein Modifications Pavel Pevzner, University of Southern California Lunch 14.00 - 14.35 Hidden Markov Models, Fisher Kernels and Support Vector Machines for Biosequence Analysis. David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz 14.35 - 15.10 A New Estimation Procedure for a Dayhoff-type Amino Acid Exchange Matrix. Martin Vingron, DKFZ, Heidelberg Coffee 15.40 - 18.00 Poster Session 19.00 Dinner Evening Poster Session (continued) Sunday, April 30 ---------------- Physiological Bioinformatics * Chairman: Søren Brunak 9.00 - 9.45 Reconstruction of Metabolic Networks in silico and Formulation of Testable Experimental Hypothesis. Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego 9.45 - 10.20 Biomolecular Processes as Concurrent Computation: Modeling Signal Transduction in the Pi-calculus Process Algebra. Aviv Regev, Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute Coffee 10.50 - 11.25 The Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila. Gene Myers, Celera Genomics 11.25 - 12.00 Challenges for Bioinformatics: A Biologist's Perspective. Kenneth Paigen, The Jackson Laboratory 12.30 - 13.00 Closing remarks Lunch ___________________________________________________________________ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johanne Keiding Center for Biological Sequence Analysis phone: +45 4525 2477 Department of Biotechnology fax: +45 4593 1585 The Technical University of Denmark e-mail: johanne@cbs.dtu.dk Building 208 WWW: www.cbs.dtu.dk DK-2800 Lyngby Denmark Please take the opportunity to visit the web-site for Bioinformatics2000 - International Conference on Bioinformatics, Elsinore, Denmark, April 27 - 30, 2000 http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/bioinformatics2000/ Campus map: www.adm.dtu.dk/fakta/transport/kort/index_e.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .