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InnovationWell 2009 Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09: Program available

2009-09-23T05:59:36Z

The InnovationWell 2009 community of practice meeting program with
abstracts is now complete and available at http://innovationwell.com/comty_conferencesprog09

The InnovationWell program will cover discussion of topics on
Collaboration in Discovery and Development, Translational
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Biomarkers, Blood-Brain Barrier
Modeling and Predictive Toxicology.
More detailed program below.

This annual community of practice meeting is taking place for the
fifth time and brings together a unique combination of pharmaceutical
and healthcare industry experts, principal investigators and
researchers from the academic and government sectors, and leaders from
innovative enterprises. The smaller and more intimate meeting format
pursued has fostered the type of collaboration not always found at
large conferences.

Registration fees include food (lunch, dinner, breaks and evening
refreshments) for the days attended. Furthermore, arrangements have
been made for some affordable accommodations (preferred rates), making
the meeting economical to attend. We now have a great deal of
information on preferred rates and travel directions available at
http://innovationwell.com/comty_conferencelocation

Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare R&D
InnovationWell 2009 InterAction Meeting
October 13-16, 2009
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA

Format: Seminars, Roundtables, Presentations, Panel Q&As, Discussions,
Break-out Workshops, Web-supported. Evening Poster sessions,
networking, social activities.

This meeting will take place concurrently with the eCheminfo 2009 drug
discovery community of practice meeting:
http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferencesprog09

Call for Abstracts:
If you wish to submit a poster abstract for the meeting which will be
placed on the program, please send to Barry Hardy (barry.hardy –(at)-
douglasconnect.com) for review. Attractive poster prizes will be
awarded for best posters at the meeting (subject to peer review).

A special peer-reviewed issue of Future Medicinal Chemistry with a
focus on collaboration in discovery and development is being published
from the meeting. Accepted poster and presentation abstracts are
eligible for consideration. Please contact Barry Hardy if interested
in submitting a paper for review.

Pre-Conference Workshop, October 12
Forum on Collaboration in Discovery and Development
To register for the meeting right now, please visit:
http://InnovationWell-BM09.eventsbot.com
To download a pdf of the program including the registration form:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/files/innovationwell-bm09-90812.pdf

InnovationWell 2009 Program Summary

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12
Forum on Collaboration in Discovery and Development, Co-chaired by
Peter Gates (Johnson & Johnson PR&D) and Barry Hardy (Douglas
Connect). Speakers include Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Shree Nath
(Pointcross), Simson Alex (Johnson & Johnson), Chris Waller
(Pfizer), Michael Liebman (Strategic Medicine), Jeff Spitzner
(Rescentris), and Bob O’Hara (ResultWorks).

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
Translational Bioinformatics: Bridging Bioinformatics and Biomedical
Informatics in Translational Medicine, Chaired by Jake Chen (Indiana
University). Speakers include Jessica Tenenbaum (Duke Translational
Medicine Institute, Duke University), Steve Naylor (Predictive
Physiology and Medicine, Inc.), Javed Mostafa (University of North
Carolina), Jay Zhang (Myriad Genetics), Maricel Kann (University of
Maryland), Iya Khalil (Gene Network Sciences), Hai Hu (Windber
Research Institute), Jake Chen (Indiana University – Purdue
University), and Susan Stephens (Johnson & Johnson).

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
Systems Biology and Biomarkers, Chaired by Darius Dziuda (Central
Connecticut State University). Speakers include Anamika Sarkar
(Novartis), Darius Dziuda (Central Connecticut State University),
Frank Tobin (Tobin Consulting LLC), Andreas Matern (Thomson Reuters
Healthcare and Science), and Usha Reddy (Merck).

Modeling of the Blood–Brain Barrier in Drug Discovery and Development,
Chaired by Roméo Cecchelli (Université d'Artois, France). Speakers
include Stefan Lundquist (AstraZeneca), Reinhard Gabathuler
(AngioChem), Maxime Culot (University of Lille), Damir Janigro
(Cleveland Clinic), Marie-Pierre Dehouck (University of Lille), Pierre-
Olivier Couraud (Institut Cochin), and Anna Seelig (University of
Basel).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
Predictive Toxicology: Combining in vitro and in silico Techniques in
Predictive Toxicology Applications, Co-chaired by Richard Judson (US
EPA) and Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences). Speakers include Richard Judson
(US EPA), Ellen Berg (BioSeek), Jonathan Dordick (Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Sanji Bhal (ACD/
Labs), Christodoulos Floudas (Princeton University), Robert
Fraczkiewicz (Simulations Plus), Kyoung Tai No (Yonsei University),
and Stephen Bryant (NIH).

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15
Predictive Toxicology: Combining in vitro and in silico Techniques in
Predictive Toxicology Applications, Co-chaired by Richard Judson (US
EPA) and Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences). Speakers include Vladimir
Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences), Fangping Mu (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Katya
Tsaioun (Apredica), Grace Patlewicz (DuPont), Michael Pelekis
(Simulations Plus), and Anil Aswani (University of California at
Berkeley).

Contact:
Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, InnovationWell Community of Practice,
Douglas
Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. email: innovationwell -[at]-
douglasconnect.com
Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/

Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg
14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. innovationwell -
[at]- douglasconnect.com

Meeting Support: Rob Reedijk, eCheminfo Community of Practice,
Douglas
Connect. email: rob.reedijk -[at]- douglasconnect.com

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7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics

2009-08-26T11:38:01Z

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues

The 7th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics -
In silico Biology: Genome Biology and Bioinformatics
will be held in
Atlanta, Georgia, November 12-14, 2009
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2009/

Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading
researchers in genomics, bioinformatics and genome biology to present recent
advances in the field and to discuss open problems.

Important Dates
Deadline for early registration: October 15, 2009
Deadline for poster abstract subsmission: October 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 11, 2009

We invite papers submissions in the following areas
* genomics;
* transcriptomics;
* proteomics;
* reconstruction and modeling of gene networks;
* evolutionary biology;

SPEAKERS

Margaret O. Dayhoff lecture
David Lipman , NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Plenary Speakers:
Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego, USA
Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Nick Grishin, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
King Jordan, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
Igor Jouline (Zhulin), University of Tennessee - ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Boris Lenhard, University of Bergen, Norway
Jian Ma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion, Israel Insitute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Joanna Masel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Andrey Mironov, Moscow State University, Russia
Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA USA
Karen Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Natasa Przulj, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
John Reinitz, State Uiversity of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA
Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nicholas Bergman, Georgia Tech
Dmitrij Frishman, Munich Polytechnic University, Germany
Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrzej M. Kierzek, University of Surrey, UK.
Eileen Kraemer, University of Georgia
Jun Liu, Harvard University
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
Andre Rogatko, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
Gary Stormo, Washington University
Ying Xu, University of Georgia and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Soojin Yi, Georgia Tech
Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee

ADMINISTRATION
Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts. The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown Atlanta near the center of the 1996 Olympic development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret
Mitchell house.

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Applied Computational Genomics Course

2009-04-04T18:38:23Z

Genome Canada
APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS COURSE (ACGC)
Led by Dr. Brian Fristensky

WESTERN CANADA- JULY 14 TO JULY 20, 2009 -
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

EASTERN CANADA- AUGUST 25 TO AUGUST 31, 2009 -
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

www.gcbioinformatics.ca/training

Since 2003, the ACGC courses have helped laboratory biologists become power users of the latest software tools. Through mastery of fundamental bioinformatics skills, this week-long course enables working biologists to take charge of their data and their projects. The ACGC course utilizes a wide array of popular software, within the context of a portable and comprehensive bioinformatics system.

1. BIRCH (Biological Research Computer Heirarchy) (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb):

o Provides a complete bioinformatics suite for analysis of sequences, molecular markers, phylogenetic trees, mircoarrays, and data mining and management.

o Automates use of a wide range of programs (for example, BLAST, FASTA, clustalw, Phylip and many others) through a highly accessible graphic interface.

o Fosters a unique environment for experimentation with data.

2. The Bluejay genome browser (http://bluejay.ucalgary.ca/)

o Creates a means for visualization of the wealth of information hidden within the complexity of the genomes.

o Permits comparisons of the organization of two or more chromosomes.

o Allows for visualization of hot spots of gene expression.

o Facilitates the annotation of new genomes.

3. Genome Canada Bioinformatics Help Desk (http://gchelpdesk.ualberta.ca/)

o Beginner-level introduction to Perl scripting .

o Gives consultation on bioinformatics problems on a fee-for-service basis.

o Offers a repository of software.

o Provides web tools, including BASys (Bacterial Annotation System), PlasMapper, BacMap CGView and others.

4. BioMoby (http://www.biomoby.org/)

o Automatically discovers web services worldwide that work with almost any kind of biological data.

o Facilitates the learning of Perl Scripts for leveraging web services for maximizing research outcomes.

o Creates high-throughput data pipelines through implementation of the Taverna workbench.

Proficiency with bioinformatics tools raises the bar with success in pure and applied research activity, thesis supervisory roles, publication potential, career placement opportunities, and the viability of funding avenues.

After the course, attendees of the ACGC will have FREE internet access to all the Bioinformatics Platform tools and databases used in this course. All software is also freely downloadable.

Faculty

Faculty for the ACGC include some of the best recognized bioinformaticians from across Canada, including Drs. Christoph Sensen, Brian Fristensky, David Wishart, and Mark Wilkinson. Dr. Christoph Sensen was recently featured in international media for his breakthrough research on degenerative disorders linked to chronic wasting disease (CWD) in elk and Mad Cow Disease. Dr. Mark Wilkinson has recently been profiled in publications from a diverse range of international research organizations such as the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Microsoft Research, and the National E-Science Centre of the UK for his groundbreaking work into data and knowledge representation in the biological sciences, and in cardiovascular research in particular. Dr. David Wishart has been actively involved in teaching and developing bioinformatics training programs across Canada and the United States for more than 10 years. He has published more than 150 papers on bioinformatics and various "omics!
" technologies. Dr. Fristensky has been a contributor to the fields of bioinformatics and plant molecular biology since the early 1980's. Publications span a range of interests, including resistance to biotic and abiotic stress in crops, software for DNA and protein sequence analysis, management of biological databases, and improving software usability in bioinformatics.

Registration and further information

Early Bird enrolment in the week-long course extends now to June 1, 2009 for the Calgary course and to July 1, 2009 for the Montreal course, at a reduced fee of $1,250 Cdn. for Canadian participants and $1,500 Cdn. for international participants.

To register, and for further information, please visit our website at www.gcbioinformatics.ca/training

Enquiries can be made to Susanne Cardwell in Canada at 403-210-6661, email smcardwe@...

Also, it would be greatly appreciated by BIP if you would consider sending out this message to your mailing lists and/or posting the information on your websites (a sponsorship agreement can be arranged for interested parties).

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CFP - Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics: eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09. Bursary Awards available. Deadline March 31

2009-03-27T06:53:25Z

This is a reminder as the deadlines for abstract submission and
bursary award applications are March 31.

This annual community of practice meeting is taking place for the
fifth time and brings together a unique combination of pharmaceutical
and healthcare industry experts, principal investigators and
researchers from the academic and government sectors, and leaders from
innovative enterprises. The smaller and more intimate meeting format
pursued has fostered the type of collaboration not always found at
large conferences.

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics
eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting
October 13-16, 2009
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA

Conference Link:
http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferences

Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug
Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Fragment-based
Screening, Free Energy Methods, Structural Biology, Systems Biology,
Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME, Chemogenomics, Binding
Energies, PDB Ligands

Format: Seminars, Roundtables, Presentations, Panel Q&As, Discussions,
Break-out Workshops, Web-supported. Evening Poster sessions,
networking, social activities.

This meeting will take place concurrently with the InnovationWell 2009
meeting.

Call for Papers:
Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted by March 31, 2009, and
be accompanied by a short biography and photo of the presenting author
(300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific organizing
committee will be selected for scheduling on the conference program.
Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of
submitted materials takes place and at the latest by April 15, 2009.
Abstracts for posters will continue to be accepted for review through
August 31, 2009. Please visit http://www.douglasconnect.com/ for
submission guidance.

A pre-conference best practices workshop will take place October 12,
2009.

Bursary Awards
Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection
of academic investigators at the meeting and workshops. Applicants can
be working in any area of research related to drug discovery.
Application deadline March 31, 2009.
http://echeminfo.com/comty_bursarybm09

Contact:
Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas
Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. email: echeminfo -[at]-
douglasconnect.com

Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg
14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. echeminfo -
[at]-
douglasconnect.com
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Bioinformatics Summer Training

2009-02-20T04:04:03Z

NeoGen Bio Solutions Offer Summer Project & Intensive industrial
training Program:

Special features:

• Special job opportunities for training students at NeoGen
• Guidance for PhD & studies in abroad
• Hands on training on commercial softwares in addition to the
training program

Intensive Industrial Training Program Duration 15 days:

• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Genomic tools and databases
• Immunoinformatics
• Metabolomics
• Microarray Data Analysis.
• Molecular Modeling and Drug Design
• Perl Programming
• Proteomic tools and Databases
• Python Programming
• Structural Bioinformatics

Summer Project+Traning 1 Month:

• BIOTOOLS AND SOFTWARES
• BIOPROGRAMMING
• DATABASE CREATION
• GENOMICS
• PROTEOMICS
• STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
• DRUG DESIGNING
• COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

NeoGen Biosolutions,
12, M.E.S.Road, Ganapathipuram
(Behind Madras Christian College)
East Thambaram, Chennai-59
9094019577, 9094019566
E.Mail:shan@...

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CFP - Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics: eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09. Bursary Awards available.

2009-02-11T12:26:09Z

This is the first announcement for this year’s meeting. While it is
several months away, deadline for abstract submission is February 28
and the bursary award application deadline is March 31.

This annual community of practice meeting is taking place for the
fifth time and brings together a unique combination of pharmaceutical
and healthcare industry experts, principal investigators and
researchers from the academic and government sectors, and leaders from
innovative enterprises. The smaller and more intimate meeting format
pursued has fostered the type of collaboration not always found at
large conferences.

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics
eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting
October 13-16, 2009
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA

Conference Link:
http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferences

Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug
Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Fragment-based
Screening, Free Energy Methods, Structural Biology, Systems Biology,
Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME, Chemogenomics, Binding
Energies, PDB Ligands

Format: Seminars, Roundtables, Presentations, Panel Q&As, Discussions,
Break-out Workshops, Web-supported. Evening Poster sessions,
networking, social activities.

This meeting will take place concurrently with the InnovationWell 2009
meeting.

Call for Papers:
Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted by February 28, 2009,
and be accompanied by a short biography and photo of the presenting
author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific
organizing committee will be selected for scheduling on the conference
program. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of
submitted materials takes place and at the latest by 31 March 2009.
Abstracts for posters will continue to be accepted for review through
31 August 2009. Please visit http://www.douglasconnect.com/ for
submission guidance.

A pre-conference best practices workshop will take place 12 October
2009.

Bursary Awards
Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection
of academic investigators at the meeting and workshops. Applicants can
be working in any area of research related to drug discovery.
Application deadline 31 March 2009.
http://echeminfo.com/comty_bursarybm09

Contact:
Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas
Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com

Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg
14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. echeminfo -
[at]-
douglasconnect.com
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2 Workshops: Drug Discovery/Cheminformatics; Predictive ADME/Toxicology, Oxford July 2009, Bursary awards available

2009-02-03T05:18:27Z

I am posting information on two workshops taking place at Oxford
University in July 2009. These 5 day workshops take place in
consecutive weeks. The application deadline for the bursaries is
February 20, 2009.

20-24 July, 2009
Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications: Virtual screening,
structure-based drug design, cheminformatics and molecular modelling
supporting drug discovery and design, a Hands-on 5 Day eCheminfo
Workshop. Case Study approach including Kinases.
http://echeminfo.com/comty_oxfordworkshop09

27-31 July, 2009
Predictive ADMET Workshop: Application of Predictive ADME and
Toxicology methods to drug discovery and development, a Hands-on 5 Day
eCheminfo Workshop. Case Study Approach on ADME and Tox endpoints and
datasets.
http://echeminfo.com/comty_oxfordadmet09

Medical Sciences Teaching Centre,
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Bursarys award available (deadline February 20, 2009)
facilitated by Barry Hardy
eCheminfo Community of Practice

A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of a selection
of academic participants at each workshop. Please see the eCheminfo
website for further information on applications.

For further information and questions on the Workshop programs, please
contact Dr. Barry Hardy at: barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com,
Tel: +41 61 851 0170
For registrations, please contact Nicki Douglas, nicki.douglas -[at]-
douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0461
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JETC 10 in Copenhagen 2009 - 2nd circular

2009-01-26T13:08:53Z

10th Joint European Thermodynamics Conference in Copenhagen

22-24 June 2009

Dear colleague,
On behalf of the JETC 10 organization, I would like to welcome you to
Copenhagen for the 10th anniversary of JETC on 22-24 June 2009. Online
registration and abstract submission is now open.
My intention for the conference is twofold, to provide a meeting
ground for thermodynamicists from all of Europe and surroundings, and
to show that thermodynamics is far from being a complete polished
subject, useful only as a tool to evaluate chemical and thermal
processes. On the contrary, thermodynamics is vibrant with new ideas
and methods, receiving inspiration from other fields of science as
well as providing inspiration to such other fields, e.g. general
optimization theory, fluid dynamics, and ecological modeling.
All kinds of thermodynamics are welcome at the conference.
The Ilya Prigogine Prize in Thermodynamics will be bestowed on a
promising young researcher in thermodynamics for his/her Ph.D.
dissertation for the fifth time during this conference. Please help
attract good candidates for this very select prize by nominating your
very best recent Ph.D. The deadline is 14 February 2009. Details may
be found on the conference website.
If this entices you, please register to attend the meeting and submit
an abstract of your newest discoveries on the conference website

[1]www.jetc10.fys.ku.dk

Deadline is 14 February 2009.
I hope to see you this summer for an inspiring conference and a
festive celebration of midsummer.
-Bjarne Andresen

References

1. http://www.jetc10.fys.ku.dk/
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Re: Bio-info Digest, Vol 33, Issue 1

2009-01-22T13:11:35Z

It would be appreciated if proper links (URI) and citation data (doi) would
be included with publication announcements.

Malcolm Dean
Los Angeles

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:03 AM, <bio-info-request@...>wrote:

> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. The Emerging Story Of Plant Roots (biospace)
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The Emerging Story Of Plant Roots

2009-01-20T22:27:43Z

An international group of European and US scientists led by the Centre
for Plant Integrative Biology at The University of Nottingham have
uncovered a fascinating new insight into the unseen side of plant
biology - the root.
Although less visible than shoots, leaves and flowers, plant roots are
critical to our lives. They provide the crops we eat with water,
nutrients, a firm anchor and a place to store food.

Roots are complex branching organs and show a wide variation in the
way they grow through the soil to exploit the available resources.

The way that new lateral roots are formed and grow is key to this
process. Lateral roots originate deep within the parent root and must
emerge through intervening layers of tissues before entering the soil.
Despite its importance to the integrity and architecture of the root
system, little is known about the regulation of lateral root
emergence.

This question has fascinated, yet frustrated, scientists since the
nineteenth century.

A paper appearing in Nature Cell Biology reveals for the very first
time how lateral root emergence is achieved. It reports that new
lateral roots reprogramme the cells that overlay them, causing them to
separate and enabling the new root to emerge. In short, the scientists
have discovered how new roots open the door to the world outside.
Tonny
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Portal to share biological information-data between people
http://biospace.ethz.ch
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JETC 10 in Copenhagen 2009

2008-11-25T14:16:59Z

Joint European Thermodynamics Conference 2009 in Copenhagen
-----------------------------------------------------------

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the JETC 10 organization, I would like to welcome you to
Copenhagen for the 10th anniversary of JETC in June 2009.

My intention for the conference is twofold, to provide a meeting ground for
thermodynamicists from all of Europe and surroundings, and to show that
thermodynamics is far from being a complete polished subject, useful only as
a tool to evaluate chemical and thermal processes. On the contrary,
thermodynamics is vibrant with new ideas and methods, receiving inspiration
from other fields of science as well as providing inspiration to such other
fields, e.g. general optimization theory, fluid dynamics, and ecological
modeling.

All kinds of thermodynamics are welcome at the conference.

The Ilya Prigogine Prize in Thermodynamics will be bestowed on a promising
young researcher in thermodynamics for his/her Ph.D. dissertation for the
fifth time during this conference.

If this entices you and you would like further information when registration
opens, please have a look at the conference website

www.jetc10.fys.ku.dk

and sign up.

I hope to see you next summer for an inspiring conference and a festive
celebration of midsummer.

-Bjarne Andresen

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Entropy evolution of the posterior distribution given a sequence of observations in a HMM

2008-10-03T10:53:38Z

Hi !

I would like to know if anybody knows any paper that is about the
evolution of entropy of the state estimation given a sequence of
observations in a hidden Markov chain before convergence to the
entropy rate of this Markov chain.

In other words, let $b$ a probability distribution over a finite set
of states. Given the probability of transition and emission of the
Markov chain, one can compute using the Bayes rules an estimation of
the state the chain is in. Do you know any work related to the
evolution of the entropy H(b), maybe related to entropy production
rate or some work like that ?

Some work on the capacity of a memoryless channel transmitting symbols
generated by a Markov source would be appreciated too :-)

I read some work from Mohammad Rezaeian (http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IT/
0606114) on estimation entropy, but his work assumes convergence of
the Markov chain to the stationary regime.

Thank you very much,
CB.
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CFP/Bursary Awards- eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting/India 08

2008-08-28T05:27:23Z

I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice
InterAction Meeting in December 2008 in Hyderabad, India. Please note
that the deadline to apply for bursaries is September 19, 2008.

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Modelling & Informatics

eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting
December 19-20, 2008
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Pre-Conference Workshop - Drug Discovery Design Methods &
Applications (December 15 – 18)

Conference Link:
http://echeminfo.colayer.net/COMTY_hyderabadconference

Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug
Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Screening, Docking,
Structural Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME

Conference Sessions: Biophysical Simulation Applications, Neglected
Diseases Applications, Drug Discovery Informatics, Predictive ADME/
Toxicology

We invite contributed papers from members of academic, government
research and commercial organizations on areas of new research and
innovation involving drug discovery research informatics. The work
presented should involve innovative new method development or
application to drug discovery problems and involving methods from
computational chemistry, computational biology, cheminformatics or
bioinformatics. Studies including experimental work in medicinal
chemistry, screening, experimental toxicology, pre-clinical
evaluation, lead optimisation and translational medicine are welcome.

Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted to echeminfo -[at]-
douglasconnect.com by 19 September 2008, and be accompanied by a short
biography of the presenting author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved
by the scientific organizing committee will be selected for scheduling
on the conference program and in meeting poster sessions. Authors will
be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of submitted materials
takes place and at the latest by 30 September 2008.

Bursary Awards
Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection
of academic young investigators at the meeting. Applicants can be
working in any area of research related to drug discovery at the
postdoctoral, graduate student and senior undergraduate levels.

To apply for the bursary please send an email with a) your abstract
and biography (300-500 words each), b) your CV of 1-2 pages, c) a
short description of your interests and career motivations related to
drug discovery (300-500 words) to echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com
by 19 September 2008. The recipients of the bursary awards will be
selected based on an evaluation of the quality and innovation of the
described research and the potential positive impact of attendance at
the meeting on their research and career progress. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by 30 September 2008.

Speakers

*Conference Sessions:*
Biophysical Simulation Applications, chaired by V.N. Balaji (Jubilant
Biosys)
Neglected Diseases Applications, chaired by Avadhesha Surolia
(National Institute of Immunology)
Drug Discovery Informatics, chaired by G.R.Desiraju (University of
Hyderabad)
Predictive ADME/Toxicology, chaired by Kas Subramanian (Strand
Genomics)

*Invited Speakers* include Chandra Verma (Bioinformatics Institute
A*STAR, Singapore), Sreedhar Rao (Ranbaxy), Chandrika B-Rao (Piramal
Life Sciences), Vellarkad N. Viswanadhan (Jubilant Biosys), R.
Narayanan (Tata Consultancy Services), Johann Gasteiger (Molecular
Networks, Germany), Jeff Wiseman (Locus Pharmaceuticals, USA), Indira
Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi, India), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect,
Switzerland), Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (Saha Institute of Nuclear
Physics, India), Ismael Zamora (Pompeu Fabra University and Lead
Molecular Design, Spain)

Scientific Advisory Board:
Johann Gasteiger, Molecular Networks, Germany; Barry Hardy, Douglas
Connect, Switzerland; Christoph Helma, inSilico Toxicology, Germany;
Anton Hopfinger, University of New Mexico, USA; Jeff Wiseman, Locus
Pharmaceuticals, USA; P.Balaram, IISC, India; Tanjore Balganesh,
AstraZeneca, India; D. Balasubramanian, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute,
India; M. K. Bhan, Secretary, DBT, India; Davinder S. Brar, GVK
Biosciences, India; Samir Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, India;
Dr. Gowrishankar, CDFD, India; Seyed Hasnain, VC, HCU, India; Rajendra
Prasad, JNU, India; S. Purohit, CDAC, India; T. Ramasami, Secretary,
DST, India; Lalji Singh, CCMB, India; M. Vijayan, IISC, India; J. S.
Yadav, IICT, India; K. Lalitha, UoH, India; S. Mande, CDFD, India; Dr.
Narayanan, TCS, India; C.K. Mitra, UoH, India; J.A.R.P Sarma, GVK
Biosciences; R. Sankaranarayanan, CCMB; Narahari Sastry, IICT

Pre-Conference Workshop - Drug Discovery Design Methods &
Applications December (15 – 18)
Virtual screening, structure-based drug design, lead optimisation and
predictive ADME/toxicology supporting decision making in drug
discovery – a Hands-on eCheminfo Workshop

Bursary award available

Co-organised in Partnership by IIIT Hyderabad , JNU NewDelhi ,
Seascape Learning, and Douglas Connect
December 15-18, 2008; IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
facilitated by Barry Hardy
Work through in detail and discuss practical examples, methods and
emerging techniques with leading modelling experts!
Virtual Screening & Docking, Structure-based Drug Design, Ligand
Optimisation & Library Design
Structure Search, Similarity and Property Estimation, Data Mining,
Analysis & Visualisation, Pharmacophore Modelling for Lead
Identification, Fragment-based Drug Design, Predictive ADME, QSAR-
based Predictive Toxicology
Please visit http://echeminfo.colayer.net/comty_hyderabadworkshop08

For further information and questions on the Conference program,
please contact Dr. Barry Hardy at: barry.hardy -[at]-
douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0170 . For international
registrations, please contact Nicki Douglas, nicki.douglas –[at]-
douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0461
If you are located in India, please contact Sunil Chawla at: sunil -
[at] -seascapelearning.com, Tel: +91 981 0305 923 or Om Prakash at
Tel: +91 985 0709 150 to complete your registration and payment in
Rs. For more information, please visit http://seascapelearning.com/echeminfo_reg.html

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Subunit Vaccine Design

2008-04-20T11:15:50Z

Dear Colleagues
We have created a database "PRRDB: A comprehensive database of Pattern-
Recognition Receptors and their ligands". This database will be very
useful for those working in the field of computer aided subunit
vaccine or peptide design, particularity interested in designing
better adjuvants based on innate immunity. Please have a look on "
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/180/ "

With regards

Raghava

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# Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India #
# Phone: +91-172-2690557, Fax: +91-172-2690632
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Prediction of Secretory Proteins

2008-04-16T11:42:24Z

Dear Friends
We have developed a highly accurate method for predicting secretory
proteins of malaria parasite. This method will be useful for those
working on malaria. See http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/201/
for detail.

With Regards

Raghava

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newbie netiquette question

2008-03-22T11:22:03Z

Hello!

I'm a newbie to biological math, learning by meandering around the
literature available on the web (so much easier than when I was a
graduate student in chemistry in the 1970s). I've got a question I
haven't been able to answer that way, and it's pretty complex. My
post-in-preparation has grown to 5.5 KB, and it's in outline form.

Would it be bad netiquette to post it in HTML code with the outer
<HTML> and </HTML> tags removed? The reader could then re-assemble it
after seeing that it's safe.

Thanks for your time and consideration.
Rick Schwall, Ph.D.
Wannabe Eliezer-protégé
-----------------------------------
When mankind has created the first ultra-intelligent, super-moral
Friendly Artificial Intelligence, it will be Humanity's Triumph over
Evolution.
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ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10

2008-03-03T08:49:31Z

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ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008
********************************************************************

Dear Colleague

Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline
for ICANN 2008 to

March 10, 2008

for regular papers and to

March 20, 2008

for papers intended for special sessions and workshops.

Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at

http://www.icann2008.org/submit

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series.

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The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN
2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech
Republic.

ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an
annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural
Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network
Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event
in all topics related to neural networks.

ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing,
algorithms and applications.

Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to
special sessions:
* Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease
* Constructive Neural Networks
or workshops:
* New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial
Neural Networks
* Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle

For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org

Sincerely,
Vera Kurkova
Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008

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FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems (2-24 August 2008, Frankfurt, Germany)

2008-02-20T08:45:24Z

<apologies for multiple postings>

Announcement and Call for Applications:

The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is organizing a
PENS-Blackwell Summer School on:

Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems

Frankfurt, Germany, August 2-24, 2008

We invite applications for this three-week summer school from graduate
students and post-docs in experimental and computational neuroscience
and theoretical physics. Up to 30 students will be accepted.

The school is supported by PENS - the Programme of European
Neuroscience Schools, an IBRO-FENS collaboration.

Application deadline: Monday, April 7.
School: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/
Application: http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/pens/2008/schools/frankfurt/

Scientific Directors:

W. Maass, C. von der Malsburg, G. Pipa,
W. Singer, J. Triesch, M. Tsodyks

Lecturers and Tutors Include:

* Dana Ballard, UT Austin, USA
* Emery Brown, Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, USA
* Yang Dan, UC Berkeley, USA
* Sophie Deneve, CNRS, France
* Rodney Douglas, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL, Switzerland
* Ann Graybiel, MIT, USA
* Mary Hayhoe, UT Austin, USA
* Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam, Germany,
* Jorg Lucke, FIAS, Germany
* Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitat, Graz, Austria
* Christoph von der Malsburg, FIAS, Germany
* Sergio Neuenschwander, MPIH, Germany
* Danko Nikolic, MPIH, Germany
* Gordon Pipa, FIAS and MPIH, Germany
* Austra Saudargiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
* Kerstin Schmidt, MPIH, Germany
* Wolf Singer, MPIH, Germay
* Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA
* Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Germany
* Peter Uhlhaas, MPIH, Germany
* Raul Vicente, FIAS and MPIH, Germany
* Cornelius Weber FIAS, Germany
* Michael Wibral, MPIH, Germany
* Kai Willadsen, FIAS, Germany
* Junmei Zhu, FIAS, Germany

Topics:

mathematical and biological foundations of theoretical neuroscience;
analysis of neural data; modelling of neurons and small networks;
plasticity and learning; modelling higher cognitive functions,
embodiment

Format:

- a 3-day pre-school to establish a common foundation and language
- daily lectures by renowned international faculty
- hands-on work on self-defined projects in interdisciplinary groups
- round table discussions
- a social and cultural program

Registration Fees, Travel Expenses and Waivers:

The school covers the expenses for accommodation and the cultural
program. Students will have to pay a registration fee of 400 EURO. A
small number of grants are available for students who need support for
their travel expenses and a waiver for the registration fee. They are
primarily intended for students from disadvantaged regions. If you
consider applying for financial support, please indicate this in your
application. We also need an estimate of your travel expenses (in
EUROs).

For further information, please contact:

Neuro School
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

email: neuro_school@...
tel: +49 69 798 47601
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DNA binding domains

2007-12-09T09:39:43Z

Dear All
There are number of methods have been developed in past for predicting
DNA binding donains from sequence. These methods perform very poor if
we wish to predict whether a protein is DNA binding or not. Recently
our group have developed seperate methods for predicting DNA binding
domain and DNA binding proteins. It is available from
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/463/abstract and
http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ .

Regards

Raghava
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Re: A Question About the Central Paradox in Shannon

2007-12-07T05:25:36Z

"Raoul Fleckman" wrote

> Where did you see Shannon's definition of information stated as a
> "decrease in the uncertainty of the receiver"?

There are numerous places in Tom Schneider's papers where this
definition is offered. Here is one published in Nucleic Acids Research...

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/14/2794

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Re: A Question About the Central Paradox in Shannon

2007-12-06T17:22:26Z

On 2007-12-06, Doug Wedel <dougwedel@...> wrote:

> I have never posted in here but have read a great deal from the Chowder
> group. Now I wish to pose a question.
>
> You use Shannon's definition of information as "decrease in the uncertainty
> of a receiver." However as you well know this definition contains a nasty
> paradox: information defined this way is at its maximum in random numbers.
>
> The idea that information is at its maximum in random numbers is not just
> different from our intuition, but more like opposite to it. As Richard
> Feynman put it in his Lectures on Computation, "How can a random string
> contain any information, let alone the maximum amount? Surely we must be
> using the wrong definition of 'information.'"
>
> How do you deal with this paradox in Shannon's definition of information?

Where did you see Shannon's definition of information stated as a
"decrease in the uncertainty of the receiver"? If anything, I believe
that should be an increase in uncertainty; as perfect certainty equals
zero information transmitted. Shannon's entropic formulation of
information amounts to the number of yes/no questions one must ask
before the "message" is known. As this number of questions increases,
(at least statistically), then the information content is viewed as
increasing. Shannon generally thought in terms of an "alphabet" as the
set of possible messages, (i believe he was thinking in terms of
teletypes and noisy transmission lines). If there are equal
probabilities of all possible members of this set then the information
content is maximized. Is this equal probability concept where you
introduce your "random numbers"?

Perhaps others are aware that there is a paradox associated with
Shannon's work connecting entropic formulation to information content,
but I don't see it myself.

I hope this was of use to you.
--
r
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A Question About the Central Paradox in Shannon

2007-12-06T05:43:47Z

I have never posted in here but have read a great deal from the Chowder
group. Now I wish to pose a question.

You use Shannon's definition of information as "decrease in the uncertainty
of a receiver." However as you well know this definition contains a nasty
paradox: information defined this way is at its maximum in random numbers.

The idea that information is at its maximum in random numbers is not just
different from our intuition, but more like opposite to it. As Richard
Feynman put it in his Lectures on Computation, "How can a random string
contain any information, let alone the maximum amount? Surely we must be
using the wrong definition of 'information.'"

How do you deal with this paradox in Shannon's definition of information?

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BCBGC-2008 Call for papers

2007-10-05T18:24:33Z

Call for papers

The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org
<http://www.promoteresearch.org/> ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in
Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and session proposals.
The conference will be held at the same time and place where several other
major events are taking place. The website contains more details.

Sincerely

John Edward

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Georgia Tech-ORNL Bioinformatics Conference (extended deadline)

2007-10-01T17:38:50Z

The 6th Georgia Tech - ORNL
International Conference on Bioinformatics -

In silico Biology: Gene Discovery and Systems Genomics
Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2007

10 year anniversary of the first conference in 1997
-- Gene Discovery in silico

This year, Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading
researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent
advances in the field and to discuss open problems.

Important Dates
Conference: November 15 - 17, 2007

Extended deadline for abstract submission: October 12, 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 18, 2007

*All selected abstracts will be eligible for competing for the 2007 best
poster award.
The winner(s) will be announced at the dinner banquet on November 17.

Deadline for early registration: October 19, 2007
Deadline for late registration: November 8, 2007

Conference Website
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2007/

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Martha Bulyk, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Jean-Michel Claverie, University of Mediterranee, Marseille, France
James Galagan, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Roderic Guigo, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Minoru Kanehisa, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hanna Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Alexander Souvorov, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH,
Bethesda, MD, USA
Mario Stanke, University of Gettingen, Gettingen, Germany
Shamil Sunyaev, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Martin Tompa, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany
Zhiping Weng, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alberto Apostolico Georgia Tech
Pierre Baldi, University of California in Irvine
David Bader, Georgia Tech
Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
King Jordan, Georgia Tech
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University
Eberhard Voit, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee

ADMINISTRATION
Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will be held at the The Global Learning & Conference
Center, located in Midtown near the center of the 1996 Olympic
development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret Mitchell house.

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DNA RESEARCH CENTRE INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR PROJECTS/TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF BIOINFORMATICS & BIOTECH

2007-09-13T22:59:22Z

We are happy to announce all the Previous/ongoing/upcoming individual
and institutional/coporate members associated with DNA Research centre
that DRC is now the member of BCIL, Biotech cosortium India Limited
Govt of India.

Note:All the projects provided at DRC will be live projects with
maximum Industrial relevance.

We have started with various Diagnostic services for the genetic
disorders and high risk disease like cancer/HIV/Hepatitis with
Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Services, Clinical Data Management,
Clinical Trials and Research
Site Management Services, Bio Imaging and Cardiac Safety.

WHAT IS DNA RESEARCH CENTRE (Centre for Biological Research)
DNA Research Centre is an autonomous registered research society,
devoted for Vaccines and Drugs Research with the Bioinformatics/
Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Applications. D.R.C works to
create a platform conductive for the growth promotion and partnering
in the field of Biological sciences.
We at D.R.C are dedicated to provide a backbone to the Biological
Research, for proper utilization of the advancements in the field of
biological sciences by taking together students, professional,
academics, organizations through consultative, advisory, educative
process which will provide growth and partnership opportunities for
organization, academics, students and the society and mankind as a
whole.
In this era of Biological Research our scientist and Researchers are
taking the full-fledged step towards the conceptual, logical and
practical accuracy of the Research & Development by applying up-to-
dated approaches and technologies and techniques. We organize a vast
range of workshop, trainings, projects and developmental programs for
the youth, students, professionals and academics in the field of
Applications of Bioinformatics.
D.R.C by objectives Takes up Trainings, R&D services and associates
Companies, Universities, Colleges, Biological experts, Research
Organizations and work closely for enhancing the opportunities in the
fertile area of Bioinformatics, Molecular biology, Biotechnology and
emerging new applications for the benefits of the Society and human
race.(For further details visit http://www.dnares.in)
Have a look of the lab @ DRC http://www.orkut.com/Album.aspx?uid=8533041374901838999
Very soon we are going to be the First Indian Research centre with
National and International accreditations & affiliations from the Top
level universities (List available in new ventures).
Updated List of the new Projects accepted by different journals and
conferences are listed below in New Projects.
Why Computers in Biology:
Rule-of-thumb is that many of the genome sequencing centers are
affiliated with bioinformatics programs due to the heavy informatics
requirements within genome science. There's millions and millions of
unsolved problems. Biology is so digital, and incredibly complicated,
but incredibly useful. The trouble with biology is that, if you have
to work as a biologist, it's boring. Your experiments take you three
years and then, one night, the electricity goes off and all the things
die! You start over. In computers we can create our own worlds.
Biologists deserve a lot of credit for being able to slug it through.
After fifty more years of explosive growth of computer science, there
will still be a lot of fascinating unsolved problems at peoples'
fingertips, that it won't be pretty much working on refinements of
well-explored things. Maybe all of the simple stuff and the really
great stuff has been discovered. It may not be true, but I can't
predict an unending growth. I can't be as confident about computer
science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of
exciting problems to work on, it's at that level.
Our students gain knowledge of the scholarly informatics literature
and the application requirements of specific areas within biology,
chemistry and/or medicine. They learn to design and implement novel
methods that are generalizable to a defined class of problems--
focusing on the acquisition, representation, retrieval, and analysis
of biomedical data and knowledge.”

NEW VENTURES

Collaborations, Memberships & Tie ups:
(Very soon to be updated on our website www.dnares.in)

ABLE (Member of Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises)

BCIL (Biotech consortium India Limited,Dept.of Biotechnology Govt. of
India)

BCISR Chennai (For Neurodegenerative Diseases Research)

USP, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Talks in Final stages) (For
student exchange programmes in management and Biological Research)

YCMOU, Nasik (Talks in progress for University Recognition for
Biological Research Programmes, PhD and M.Tech)

NITZA Biologicals Hyderabad

New Privileged Members

Axis group

NEW CLIENTS

Bombay Hospitals
JIPMER pondicherry

SOME OF THE UNIVERSITY/COLLEGES FROM WHERE THE STUDENTS HAVE
SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE TRAININGS AND THE PROJECTS WITH US
(Some colleges and universities are members with DRC as well.)

VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology)
JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad)
Osmania University
Banglore University
Delhi University
Mumbai University
Punjabi Technical University
Allahabad Agricultural University
Amity University (Lucknow and Noida)
SRM Deemed University
NIRMA College Vishakapatnam
CMR college of Engineering
Satyabhama college Chennai
(For full details of the colleges and Universities call or email us)

Publications Patents/ Successful projects worked out @ DRC
Genbank accession numbers for the sequences which our Research team
and scientists have worked out are
DQ340075 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=84620795
DQ061245
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=66967949
DQ088378
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide&val=67772407
Swissprot entries from our team @ DRC
http://www.expasy.org/uniprot/Q2MIR5
http://www.expasy.org/uniprot/Q4TZH3
(Till now in the year 2007)
http://www.bii.in/journal/BIIJOURNAL/FinalPaperAbstract.aspx?ArticleID=216
*Critical Role of Proline and Glycine repeats in Neurodegenerative
Disorders
Accepted for the Publication on IEEE Proceedings at PRIB 2007
(Paper Id 243)
Authors: Kumar A, Srivastava S, Chengappa K
* Conservation of MFCAG and AAHC patterns in Insulin Resistance
syndrome and other
coagulation factor disorders
Accepted for the Publication on IEEE Proceedings at PRIB 2007
(Paper Id 252)
Neetu Jabalia, Dr. Amit kumar, Neelangli srivastava, Jatinder kaur
*Involvement of TKGF and FTYDQ pattern conservation in Diabetes and
Obesity
Bhala Manisha, Dr. Amit kumar
Accepted for the Publication on IEEE Proceedings at PRIB 2007
(Paper Id 253)
*Critical role of Tetra praline Repeats in Osteoarthritis
Naveen S, Kumar A, Sinha A, kant R
Accepted for the Publication on IEEE Proceedings at PRIB 2007
(Paper Id 244)
*Involvement of CYP 450 and the Pregnancy loss
Bhanu D, kumar A, Sanyal A
Published in Indo American Centre conference proceedings, Manipal in
2007 issue.
Involvement of hypothetical Proteins in Biodesel production
Chandrakanth N, Nisha (Satyabhama university, Chennai)
Published in Banglore Bio 2007

(All the projects executed @ DRC has most of the parts which are done
by the trainee students from different colleges to provide them with
proper industrial exposure)

(For the complete list Please call or email us)

SELECTED STUDENTS WHO ARE VISITING PRIB 2007 IN SINGAPORE (1-2
October)
Sambhavi srivastava (Kisan college, AAIDU)
Supriya Naveen (Sri Indu college of engineering, Hyderabad)
Ravi kant (AAIDU, Allahabad)
Manisha bhala (Project trainee from National institute of Nutrition,
Hyderabad)
Neetu jabalia (Punjab University)
Karan chengappa

LIST OF THE STUDENT PLACEMENTS/ GOT ADMISSION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION TO
REPUTED UNIVERSITIES/PAPER SELECTED FOR PUBLICATIONS
Muni ranjan (WIPRO)
Gomathi (Accenture)
Ravikant (Recurited with DRC)
Shambhavi srivastava (Recurited with DRC)
TARUN (Got selected by Amity university for MBA Biotech)
Karan Chengappa (Got selected by Amity university for MBA Biotech)
Supria Naveen (Paper selected for publication)
Ravikant (Paper selected for publication)
Shambhavi srivastava (Paper selected for publication)
Manisha Bhala (Paper selected for publication)
Vivek kishore (Paper selected for publication)

For the complete list call or email us

DRC INTERNATIONAL TRAINEES

Sadaf Saba (Tehran)—Online Trainee
Dr. Emenike (IVRI, Nigeria) ---- Classroom programm
Shailendra kumar singh (Russia) ------ Classroom programm
Vivek chabra (Australia)----- Classroom programm

UPCOMING VENTURES OF DRC

We are pleased to inform that very soon we are coming up in Mumbai and
Patna

NEW WORKSHOPS, TRAININGS, PROJECTS @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE

Purpose of the Program
The programs goal is to train all the interested individuals to
function as independent researchers in a multidisciplinary environment
focusing on Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Oncoinformatics,
Chemioinformatics, Immunoinformatics, clinical informatics, Discovery
informatics, Pharmacoinformatics, Agriinformatics, Biomedical
computation, Application of computation in different branches of life
scinces etc. To achieve this goal we have assembled a team of
researchers specializing in Biostatistics/Statistics, Bioinformatics/
Biomedical, Molecular Biologists, and the biology Nutrition and
cancer. Through a combination of didactic coursework, seminars and
research experiences, trainees will be expected to make important
contributions in the development of statistical methods targeted to
experiments in Different pathological disease and the most dangerous
diseases like cancer and to function as a true collaborator in teams
of biologists, instead of merely as a specialist in setting sample
sizes and performing data analysis of simple experiments.
Eligibility: Graduate/Undergraduates (Biology,any life science/
Chemistry/Computer science)

SCHOLERSHIPS @ DRC

Scholarships up to 40% may be achieved once you write the scholarship
test after joining the centre. The percentage of scholarship will be
completely a waiver from the fee structure and trainees don’t need to
pay it.

Scholarships may be written from the perspective background of the
trainees. (eg. Biology backround will be given with biology
questions,chemistry with chemistry and computer science with computer
science)

Scholarships will comprise the basic questions with a few long answer
question (not more than 350 words).

Every batch we have 4 scholarships available

BASIC MODULE
Course duration: (30 Days)
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics& overview of Biological Research with
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology concepts, Biological databases & Database Searching
Bioinformatics & Functional Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Structural Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Expression proteomics
Pairwise and Multiple Sequence analysis (BLAST, FASTA, CLUSTAL W))
Motif and Domain Assignments
Introductory Computational Genomics
Phylogenetic Analysis in Bioinformatics
Live Project (1)
Industrial Project (1)

CORE MODULE
(Course duration: 45 days)
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics& overview of Biological Research with
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology concepts, Biological databases & Database Searching
Bioinformatics & Functional Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Structural Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Expression proteomics
Pairwise and Multiple Sequence analysis (BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTAL W)
Motif and Domain Assignments
Introductory Computational Genomics
Phylogenetic Analysis in Bioinformatics
Mass spectrometry in Proteomics
Homology Modeling
Threading, Protein Interactions
Introduction to SAS and Application to Biological Sciences
Online Lecture
Live Project (2)
Industrial Project (1)

ELECTIVE MODULE
(Course duration 60 days)
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics& overview of Biological Research with
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology concepts, Biological databases & Database Searching
Bioinformatics & Functional Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Structural Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Expression proteomics
Pairwise and Multiple Sequence analysis (BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTAL W)
Motif and Domain Assignments
Introductory Computational Genomics
Phylogenetic Analysis in Bioinformatics
Mass spectrometry in Proteomics
Homology Modeling
Threading
Protein Interactions
Structural Bioinformatics
Ab Initio Structure Prediction
Applied computational Genomics
Protein Modeling and Impact on Protein physical Properties
Introductory Rational Drug Design
SAS with Clinical Data Management
Online lecture
Live Project (2)
Industrial Project (2)

ADVANCE MODULE:
(Course duration: 90 days)
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics& overview of Biological Research with
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology concepts, Biological databases & Database Searching
Bioinformatics & Functional Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Structural Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Expression proteomics
Pairwise and Multiple Sequence analysis (BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTAL W)
Motif and Domain Assignments
Introductory Computational Genomics
Phylogenetic Analysis in Bioinformatics
Mass spectrometry in Proteomics
Homology Modeling
Threading
Protein Interactions
Structural Bioinformatics
Ab Initio Structure Prediction
Applied computational Genomics
Protein Modeling and Impact on Protein physical Properties
Introductory Rational Drug Design
Visualization Tools
Modelling and Threading
Drug Targeting & Design
Simulation studies
Organellar Proteomics and Genomics
Reverse Vaccinology
Antigenicity and Immunigenicity
SAS with Proteomics/Genomics/Clinical Trials)
Online Lectures
Live Project (3)
Industrial Project (3)

FOUNDATION MODULE
Course Duration: (180 days)
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics& overview of Biological Research with
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology concepts, Biological databases & Database Searching
Bioinformatics & Functional Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Structural Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Expression proteomics
Pairwise and Multiple Sequence analysis (BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTAL W)
Motif and Domain Assignments
Introductory Computational Genomics
Phylogenetic Analysis in Bioinformatics
Mass spectrometry in Proteomics
Homology Modeling
Threading
Protein Interactions
Structural Bioinformatics
Ab Initio Structure Prediction
Applied computational Genomics
Protein Modeling and Impact on Protein physical Properties
Introductory Rational Drug Design
Visualization Tools
Modelling and Threading
Drug Targeting & Design
Simulation studies
Organellar Proteomics and Genomics
Reverse Vaccinology
Antigenicity and Immunigenicity
SAS Proteomics
SAS Genomics
SAS Clinical Trials)
Online Lectures
Any Two super specialized Courses listed below (In the New course
Listings)
Live Project (3)
Industrial Project (5)

WHATS NEW @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE

IMMUNOINFORMATICS:
(Course Duration: 30 days)
Immunoinformatics is the application of informatics techniques to
molecules of the immune system. One of its principal goals is the
effective prediction of immunogenicity, be that at the level of
epitope, subunit vaccine, or attenuated pathogen. Immunogenicity is
the ability of a pathogen or component thereof to induce a specific
immune response when first exposed to surveillance by the immune
system, whereas antigenicity is the capacity for recognition by the
extant machinery of the adaptive immune response in a recall response.
In thisbook, we introduce these subjects and explore the current state
of play in immunoinformatics and the in silico prediction of
immunogenicity.
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics
Accessing Genome Agencies
Data Mining
Antigen presentation
Computational chemistry
Computational vaccinology
Vaccine Screening
Immunoinformatics Core
MHC binding
Mass Spectrometry Applications to Immunology
Vaccine design

Major Research Project

METABOLOMICS:
(Course Duration: 30 days)
Coursework
Introduction to Mass Spectrometry and Database Searching
Protein pathway databases
Small Molecule Analysis
Quantitative Omics
Enzymology
Metabolic Pathway predictions
Metabolic pathway Analysis
Metabolomics and Advanced Technologies.
Sample preparation (Optional)
Metabolic Data analysis.
Application of SAS to Metabolomics
Major Research Project

PATTERN RECOGNITION IN BIOLOGY:
(Course Duration: 30 days)
Coursework
Integrative Bioinformatics
Datasets and databases for Biological Sequence Acquisition
Representation Related problems in pattern Recognition
Statistical Learning and application of Pattern Recognition
Regulatory Sequence Analysis
Threading
Systems Biology for pattern recognition
SAS in pattern Recognition
Major Research Project

PHARMACOINFORMATICS:
(Course Duration: 45 days)
Pharmacy Informatics is the realization of informatics in a cost
effective environment that benefits the Pharmacist and the practice of
Pharmacy through utilization of efficacious systems and tools.
Pharmacy Informatics is also a mind set that spawns from the very
depths of Healthcare and Technology as a whole. Indeed, Pharmacy
Informatics is as actively a part of Healthcare Informatics as the
left arm is part of the body. And while systems may be designed
strictly for the practice of Pharmacy, it is folly to attempt to
create them without acknowledging Healthcare as a whole. It is of an
even higher importance today when informatics is pushing us to link
our healthcare systems together to share information.
Coursework
Introductory Bioinformatics
Pharmaceutical Databases
Robotics and automation in pharmacy
1. Technical cybernetics
1. Introduction to Pattern recognition
2. Sensors
3. Artificial intelligence
4. Knowledge based information systems
5. Computer-aided decision support
2. Pharmacy automation
1. Automated medication dosage, filling, and packaging
2. Coding of information, bar-codes
3. Medication distribution and management, inventory control
4. Computerized narcotic and IV systems
Integrated health care information systems
1. Point-of-care information systems
2. Electronic patient record
3. Computerized medical record system
4. Health care financial systems
5. Health care management and planning systems
Legal and ethical aspects of information technologies
1. Health information confidentiality rules
2. Security and privacy in medical information systems
3. Biometrics
4. Accountability and liability of information users and providers
5. Intellectual property protection and copyright
6. Regulation of the information infrastructure
Commercial applications of information technologies
1. Marketing and advertising
2. Financial and trade transactions (Electronic Data Interchange)
Patient education and continuity of pharmacy care
1. Drug information systems
2. Public health information systems
3. Information technologies in pharmaceutical error prevention
Intellectual Property Rights and Pharmaco informatics

Major Research Project

MEDICAL AND CLINICAL INFORMATICS:
(Most Beneficial for Health care and Clinical Research Students and
Professionals)
The primary goal our program in Medical and Clinical Informatics is to
educate the future developers and managers of health care information
systems. Individuals with a variety of backgrounds are provided a
strong technical grounding in medical informatics, health and
medicine, computer science, and research methods so that they may
assume positions that require a thorough understanding of both
information technology and the health care environment. After this
course a solid knowledge base in medical and clinical informatics may
be achieved, some of them are:
• Aspirants should be able to apply basic principles of biomedical
informatics to problems in different domains of health and
biomedicine.
• Aspirants should have operational knowledge of the human body in
health and disease as well as the organization of the health care
system.
• Aspirants should be able to apply principles of organizational
behavior and management skills to biomedical informatics problems.
• Aspirants should be able to apply basic statistics and quantitative
or qualitative research methods to evaluative research projects.
• Aspirants should be able to apply basic computer science principles
to problems in health and biomedicine.
• Aspirants will be adept in the tools of advanced scholarship,
including the ability to address ethical issues in the field,
communicate effectively in oral and written form, and complete a
thesis or capstone.
The programs are primarily designed to meet the educational needs of
two types of students - the health care professional seeking
additional training in information management and technology and the
non-health care professional seeking training in health information
and technology. The overall curriculum for the program is unique, with
the exception that you don’t need to have a deep knowledge of Clinical
Research.
Coursework
Biomedical Informatics
Bioinformatics Survey
Clinical and Biomedical data Analysis
Clinical Systems in Computational Biology
Consumer Health Informatics
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Structures
Text Mining
Biomedical & Clinical Practice
Introduction to Biostatistics
Design and Evaluation in Research
Oncoinformatics
SAS and clinical Research Together
Project

CHEMIOINFORMATICS/CHEMICAL INFORMATICS
(Duration 30 Days)
Introduction to chemioinformatics
Chemical Databases and datasets
Small molecule hits
Designing chemical structures
Lead design and optimization
Chemical reaction indexing
Pharmacophore analysis
Chemical patents
Computer simulations
FDA in drug trials
Major Research project

WHY TO LEARN SAS 9.1.3 MODULES @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE
http://www.pharmabiz.com/article/detnews.asp?articleid=11388§ionid=46

Pharmacy education in India is primarily focused on pharmaceutics,
pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology and pharmacognosy. Some
institutions have taken vast initiatives in restructuring course
curricula and introducing new courses namely pharmaceutical
management, clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical medicine and regulatory
affairs etc. at B.Pharm, M.Pharm, as well as PhD level.
Typically, job scenarios involve pharmacist, medical representative,
product management, teaching, and research & development positions.
Our pharmacists can have a vital role in monitoring clinical trials,
patient data management and Statistical Analytical Software (SAS)-
programming which involves United States FDA regulations.
Discovering and developing safe and effective new medicines is a long,
difficult and expensive process: Preclinical Testing -->
Investigational New Drug Application (IND) --> Clinical Trials, Phase-
I --> Phase-II --> Phase-III --> New Drug Application (NDA) -->
Approval --> Phase-IV.
SAS-programming is very important from preclinical testing to approval
stages. Here, when you see the sequence of drug development and
approval process you can yourself realize how important clinical
trials and SAS-programming areas are and there is an urgent need of
starting training programs in these areas. How?
Training program on how to effectively monitor clinical trials can be
designed based on Good Clinical Practices and ICH guidelines. Various
topics may include: design of protocol, case report forms, reporting
serious adverse events, early phase clinical evaluation, processing
clinical research data, clinical database, data display, report and
analysis plan, clinical trial report, standard operating procedures in
regulatory affairs, auditing of clinical trials and new drug
application etc.
Clinical trials data arriving on case report forms is fairly standard,
for example demography, adverse event, medications, laboratory etc
hence can be stored in fairly standard data structures. Designing
clinical data structures for data entry is important, but it should be
done with some understanding of the analysis that will be performed.
Once an appropriate clinical data structure is arrived at for data
entry, it is important to then determine how to best use the data in
the SAS analysis environment.
US FDA considers SAS validation an important component of the quality
assurance, reliability & accuracy of much of the information used to
approve & develop drugs and medical devices. Hot spots and crucial
points in pharmaceutical research & developments are submission of
various clinical reports to FDA and these clinical reports need to be
created using SAS-programming techniques. Our educational institutions
must create structured training program in these high tech areas so as
to create pharmacist + IT (SAS) manpower for future. Here is an
outline depicting in which direction we need to proceed further so
that our professionals can play at international level and enjoy a
unique & challenging job profile: (1) Clinical Report Generation for
example: (a) Adverse Event tables and listings, (b) Demographics, (c)
Safety, (d) Efficacy, (e) Lab Data, (2) Custom Derived SAS data sets,
(3) SAS-Programming for NDAs (New Drug Applications), (4) Experience
with Phases I-IV, (5) Data Cleaning, (6) Statistical Analysis using
SAS tools and (7) Data Warehousing.
After acquiring a combination of B.Pharm, or M.Pharm, or even PhD and
Clinical SAS-Programming technical know-how; what kind of job profile
is prevailing in pharmaceutical industry is a logical question which
our graduates may have in mind. The answer is job description may
include U.S. and International regulatory submissions, Creation of
data marts for data mining, Analysis of clinical trial,
pharmacokinetic, epidemiological and product stability data using
statistical analysis software, Development of integrated data analysis
systems, Design of complex graphical reporting software with SAS/
GRAPH, Validation of applications software and data, Creation of user
friendly interfaces with SAS/FSP and SAS/AF, Extensive use of the SAS
macro facility to provide reusable software, UNIX system
administration and networking with Novell and TCP/IP
SAS CONTENTS VERSION 9.1.3

MODULE: 1
Course Duration: 30 Days
C and C++
BASE/ SAS
SAS /PROCEDURES
MODULE: 2
Course Duration: 60 Days
BASE/ SAS
SAS /PROCEDURES
SAS/MACROS
SAS/ACCESS
SAS/CONNECT
SAS/ETS
MODULE: 3
Course Duration: 90 Days
BASE/ SAS
SAS /PROCEDURES
SAS/MACROS
SAS/ACCESS
SAS/CONNECT
SAS/ETS
SAS/STAT
SAS/QC
SAS/Genetics
SAS/ETL
SAS/OLAP
PROC SQL
SAS/Procedures:
 Proc Print
 Proc Format
 Proc Contents
 Proc Append
 Proc Compare
 Proc Transpose
 Proc Import
 Proc Export
 Proc Options
 Proc Copy
 Proc Forms
 Proc Format
Reporting Procedures:
 Proc Report
 Proc Tabulate
 Proc Chart
 Proc Gchart
 Proc Tree
 Proc Plot
 Proc Gplot
SAS/MACROS:
 SAS/ Macros
 Macro Variables
 Macro Processing
 Macro Functions
 Automatic Macro Variables
 SYMPUT
 SYMGET
 Working Structure of Macros
SAS/ACCESS:
 Interface to DBMS and RDBMS
SAS/ CONNECT:
 Introduction to SAS Connect
SAS/STAT:
 Introduction to SAS Statistics
 Working with Statistical Analysis
Analysis if Variance
Regression
Correlation
ANOVA
SAS/ETS:
 Introduction to ETS
 Investment Analysis
Loans
Generic Cash Flow
 Time Series Analysis
 Fore Cost Analysis
SAS/QC:
 Statistical Quality Control
 Capability Analysis
Working With SQL (SAS/SQL):
 Introduction to SAS/SQL
 Understanding SQL through SAS
 Proc SQL(Pass Through Facility)
 Proc SQL Statements
SAS\ETL:
 Introduction to ETL
 Accessing Data Through ETL
SAS/OLAP:
 Introduction to OLAP
 Types of OLAP
Using of SAS/OLAP
* CANDIATES MAY CHOOSE THE MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT ON DRUG DESIGN, SAS,
VACCINOLOGY, DISEASE STUDIES ETC OF THEIR OWN INTEREST WHICH MAY BE
PROVIDED AND GUIDED BY DRC.
* DRC PROJECTS ARE STRICTLY LIVE AND INDUSTRIAL AND CAN BE USED FOR
THE PUBLICATION SINCE ALL THE STUDENTS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH MOST
UPCOMING RESEARCH TOPICS.
For the most relevant list of the projects at DRC you may email/call
us.
WET LABS TECHNOQUES AND MODULES @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE
Proficiency in Microbial Biotechnology
1. Isolation of Micro-organisms from soil by serial dilution
2. Pure culture preparation
3. Identification of organisms by
a. Staining techniques
i. Grams staining
ii. Flagelar staining
iii. Endospore staining
iv. Capsular staining
b. Biochemical tests
i. IMVIC test
ii. Caesein hydrolysis
iii. Starch hydrolysis
iv. Gelatin liquification
v. Catalase test
vi. TSI test
4. Growth curve
5. Mutation studies
6. Bacterial conjugation
Proficiency in Recombinat DNA Technology
1. Isolation of plant DNA
2. Purification of plant DNA
3. Isolation of animal DNA
4. Isolation of Plasmid DNA
5. Isolation of genomic DNA from prokaryotes
6. Quantitative and Qualitative analysis of DNA
7. Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
8. Elusion of inserts from the Gel
9. Restriction Digestion
10. Ligation
11. Transformation
12. Gene cloning and expretion
13. Southern Blotting
14. Western Blotting
Proficiency in Enzymology
1. Isolation of micro-organisms from soil by serial dilution
2. Pure culture preparation
3. Screening for the enzyme production
4. Batch Culture
a. Solid state fermentation
b. Submerged fermentation
5. Enzyme purification
a. Salt precipitation technique
b. Dialysis
6. Ion Exchange Chromatography
7. Enzyme assay
8. Quantitative estimation of Protein
9. Enzyme kinetic
a. pH
b. Temperature
c. Substrate conc
d. Activator
e. Inhibitor
10. SDS - PAGE
11. Immobilization of Enzyme
Proficiency in Immunotechnology
1. Isolation & Purification of Ig G from blood sample
a. Salt Precipitation
b. Dialysis
c. Ion exchange Chromatography
d. Quantitative estimation of proteins
e. SDS PAGE
2. ODD test
3. RID test
4. Immuno electrophoresis
5. HCG test (Pregnancy test)
6. Blood Grouping and Rh typing
7. ELISA
8. Widal
9. RPR test
Proficiency in Plant Tissue Culture
1. Instrumentation in Plant tissue culture
i. Hot air oven
ii. Autoclave unit
iii. Culture vessels and racks
iv. Incubation chamber
v. Rotary Shaker
vi. Deep freezer
vii. Laminar air flow unit
2. Sterilization technique:
i. Glassware
ii. Explant preparation
3. Preparation of culture media:
i. Preparation of stock solutions of MS, B5, Nitsch and LS media
ii. Preparation of hormone stocks solution.
iii. Preparation of MS, Gamborgs, Nitsch and LS media
4. Callus culture:
i. Initiation and maintenance of callus from the inter nodal explants
of stem
explants of any available plant material
ii. Embryo culture
iii. Anther culture
iv. Meristam culture
5. Techniques involved in Agrobacterium mediated gene transformation
i. Leaf Disc Preparation
ii. Co-cultivation
iii. Selection media transfer
6. Encapsulation of embryo
Proficiency in Industrial Microbiology
1. Sterility Techniques
2. Isolation of Micro-organisms from natural sources
3. Staining Technique
i. Grams staining
ii. Endospore staining
4. Biochemical Tests
i. Gelatin liquification
ii. Catalase test
iii. TSI test
5. Bacterial Growth Curve
6. Mutation Studies
7. Screening of Micro Organisms for Industrial applications
i. Caesein hydrolysis
ii. Starch hydrolysis
iii. Cellulose hydrolysis
9. Antibiotic assays
10. Quality control of milk
11. Water analysis
Proficiency in Clinical Microbiology
1. Isolation of Micro-organisms from clinical sample
2. Grams staining
3. IMVIC test
4. Starch hydrolysis
5. Gelatin liquification
6. H2S production test
7. ELISA test
8. Widal test
9. Detection of blood group and Rh factor
10. Catalase test
11. Pregnancy test
12. Detection of urinary protein
13. Detection of urinary glucose
14. Detection of ketone bodies in urine sample
15. Heamoglobulin test
16. RPR test
17. WBC count
Details of Advance Modules
ADVANCE MODULE I - Microbial Biotechnology
1. Fundamentals in Microbiology
2. Microbiological culture media and its importance in Biotechnology
3. Sterilization Techniques
4. Isolation of Micro-organisms from air and soil
5. Pure culture preparation
6. Identification of organisms by
a. Staining techniques
b. Biochemical tests
7. Growth curve
Applied Techniques
1. Antibiotic assays
2. Mutational studies by Replica plating method
3. Bacterial conjugation
4. Screening for Enzymes
5. Antogonism studies
6. Isolation of protozoa from samples
7. Isolation & Identification of fungi
8. Production of secondary metabolites (Acids, Wine, Enzymes,
Antibiotics)
ADVANCE MODULE II - Recombinant DNA Technology
I. Fundamentals
1. Isolation of plant DNA SDS method,C-TAB method
2. Isolation of RNA
3. Isolation of animal DNA
4. Isolation of Plasmid DNA
5. Isolation of genomic DNA from prokaryotes
6. Quantitative and Qualitative analysis of DNA
II. Applied Techniques
1. Tm of DNA-Melting point of DNA
2. Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
3. Elusion of inserts from the Gel
4. Restriction Digestion
5. Ligation
6. Transformation
7. Gene cloning and expression
8. Southern Blotting
9. Western Blotting
10. PCR Techniques
ADVANCE MODULE III - Fermentation and downstream Processing
I. Fundamentals
1. Fermentation Fundamental
2. Submerged fermentation
3. Solid state fermentation
4. Fermentation systems
a. Conical flask
b. Vessels
c. Fermentors
II. Applied aspects depends on the desired products
(Citric acid/Amino acids/ Enzymes/Antibiotics)
1. Down stream processing
a. Extra cellular
b. Intra cellular
2. Cell separation techniques
a. Centrifugation
b. Membrane filtration
c. Cell lysing
3. Isolation /Purification of desire products
a. Precipitation techniques
b. Solvent extraction
c. Dialysis
d. Ion exchange chromatography
e. Distillation
III Analysis of Metabolites/Products
1. Thin layer chromatography
2. Melting point determination
3. Spectrophotometer determination
4. Titrometric
5. Electrophoresis
ADVANCE MODULE IV - Immunological Techniques
I. Agglutination and Precipitation Methods
1. Blood grouping and Rh typing
2. Fibril Agglutination test(Widal test)
3. VDRL Test/ RPR
4. Hbs Ag Test
II. Gel diffusion Methods
1. Ouchterlony Double Diffusion
2. Single Radial Immunodiffusion
3. Immunoelectrophoresis
4. Counter current immunoelectrophoresis
5. Rocket immunoelectrophoresis

ONLINE TRAININGS WITH DNA RESEARCH CENTRE
All the listed trainings except the wetlab Practicals are available
via Online Mode via our web based facilities. For details about the
Guides available call or write to us.
SHORT DURATION COURSES @ DNA RESEARCH CENTRE
*Courses for one week and 20days are available, for details email or
call us.
ONLY PROJECT COMPLETION (WITHOUT TRAINING) : Upto 45 days @ 4750/-
DIPLOMA FOR 3,6 AND 9 MONTHS (Can be pursued Live or online)
*DRC Courseware (Study materials) are made available for both online
and live trainees.

CONFIRMING TRANING/PROJECT/WORKSHOP WITH DRC
If any of our programme interests you, please submit an application on
a plain paper along with your CV stating the purpose for which you
require training and the expected duration of training. A letter of
recommendation from one of your teacher/guide/Head of Department
including the Demand draft for
INR 751/- (For Indian Nationals),
USD 150 (For International Applicants) International applicants may
use the wire transfer facility.
in favour of DNA Research Centre, Payable at Hyderabad/Secunderabad
(India) along with the Photocopies of the credentials and certificates
shall be sent to:
DNA Research Centre
12-13-1249, 1st floor
Besides Andhra Bank, opp.appolo Clinic
Tarnaka Main Road
Secunderabad-500017
India

(Note: Students opting for more than 2 or more months course may get
the registration number by sending the DD for INR 6751/- and rest of
the fees may be paid once they join the Respective batch.)
Interested candidates may register for the programmes (Who are
choosing for the batches after July 2007) till on or before August
28th 2007. Late fine of INR 500/- (For Indian Nationals) USD 50 For
International Applicants will be charged for the candidates who fail
to register in below mentioned time. Once the deadline is over
registration is only possible if the vacancies arise. Maximum strength
per batch is 10.Once the seats are full applications will not be
entertained.
Candidates should email the DD details to
dnaresearchcentre@... (Indian nationals)
dnaresearchcentre@... (International Applicants)
Organization website: http://www.dnares.in

Registrations are open for upcoming Batches

13th August 2007 (Registration without late fine till 4th August 2007)

10th September 2007 (Registration without late fine till 1st September
2007)

8th October 2007 (Registration without late fine 1st October 2007)

12th November 2007 (Registration without late fine till 3rd November
2007)

10th December 2007 (Registration without late fine till 1st December
2007)

7th of Jan 2008 (Registration without late fine 10th December 2007)

Helpline numbers: +91-40-40180502/9247438983 (For Indian Nationals)
: +91-40-40180503 (For International Applicants)
HOW TO REACH DRC
Hyderabad and secunderabad are known as twin cities of India.
Hyderabad is known as genome vally because of presence of most
Biological Research labs in the city. It is well connected by Train,
Bus or Air routes from every part of country. Once your enter the city
enquire to reach Tarnaka. Once you cross NIN (National institute of
nutrition take left turn and DRC is at walkable distance on Tarnaka -
Lalapet main road).We are located near the same location where the
Most renound labs like CCMB, IICT and NIN are located.
ACCOMODATION:
DNA Research Centre has its own Guest house as well as tie up with the
nearby guest houses with fully furnished facilities and homely
environment. Trainees seeking accommodation shall inform us by email
or phone so that there seat may be booked accordingly.
Accomodation @ 2500/- month (Including Lodging and fooding)
FOR ANY FURTHER ASSISTANCE/QUERRIES WE WILL BE HAPPY TO HEAR YOU AT
DNA Research Centre
12-13-1249, 1st floor
Besides Andhra Bank, opp. Appolo Clinic
Tarnaka Main Road
Secunderabad-500017
Andhra Pradesh (India)
Website: http://www.dnares.in
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2007-08-30T20:53:00Z

The 6th Georgia Tech - ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics -

In silico Biology: Gene Discovery and Systems Genomics
Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2007

10 year anniversary of the first Georgia Tech conference in Bioinformatics
-- Gene Discovery in silico

This year, Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading,
world-renowned researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent
advances in the field and to discuss open problems. We hope that these popular
Georgia Tech meetings are serving well the interests of the dynamic and highly
productiive bioinformatics research community.

Important Dates
Conference dates: November 15 - 17, 2007

Deadline for abstract subsmission: September 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 7, 2007*

*All selected abstracts will be eligible for competing for the 2007 best poster
award. The winner(s) will be annouced at the banquet on November 17.

A limited number of travel awards will be provided to doctoral students
selected for presenting posters.
Deadline for travel award application: October 11, 2007
A travel award request should be sent to Dr. Lee: evakylee@...

Registration begins: August 20, 2007
Deadline for early registration: October 19, 2007

Conference Website
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2007/

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jean-Michel Claverie, University of Mediterranee, Marseille, France
James Galagan, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Roderic Guigo, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Minoru Kanehisa, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hanna Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Andrei Mironov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Alexander Souvorov, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH,
Bethesda, MD, USA
Mario Stanke, University of Gettingen, Gettingen, Germany
Shamil Sunyaev, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Martin Tompa, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany
Zhiping Weng, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pierre Baldi, University of California in Irvine
David Bader, Georgia Tech
Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
King Jordan, Georgia Tech
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University
Eberhard Voit, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee

ADMINISTRATION
Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will be held at the Georgia Tech Global Learning & Conference
Center, located in Midtown Atlanta near the center of the 1996 Olympic
development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret Mitchell house.

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6th Georgia Tech - ORNL Conference on Bioinformatics

2007-07-15T21:12:52Z

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 6th Georgia Tech - ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics -

In silico Biology: Gene Discovery and Systems Genomics
Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2007

10 year anniversary of the first conference in 1997
-- Gene Discovery in silico

This year, Georgia Tech continues the tradition of organizing bi-annual
International Conference on Bioinformatics, bringing together leading, world-
renowned researchers in genomics and bioinformatics to present recent advances
in the field and to discuss open problems.

In the ten years since the first such Georgia Tech Conference "Gene Discovery
in silico" held in November 1997, astonishing progress has been made in genome
related biological science and engineering. There is a strong evidence that
these popular Georgia Tech meetings have served well the interests of the
dynamic and highly productiive bioinformatics research community.

Important Dates
Conference dates: November 15 - 17, 2007

Deadline for poster abstract subsmission: September 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: October 7, 2007

Registration begins: August 1, 2007
Deadline for early registration: October 19, 2007
Deadline for late registration: November 8, 2007

Conference Website
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/binf2007/

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Joel Bader, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jean-Michel Claverie, University of Mediterranee, Marseille, France
James Galagan, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Roderic Guigo, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hanna Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Alexander Souvorov, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH,
Bethesda, MD, USA
Mario Stanke, University of Gettingen, Gettingen, Germany
Shamil Sunyaev, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Martin Tompa, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany
Zhiping Weng, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech and Emory University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pierre Baldi, University of California in Irvine
David Bader, Georgia Tech
Andrey Gorin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
King Jordan, Georgia Tech
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University
Eberhard Voit, Georgia Tech and Emory University
Igor Zhulin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee

ADMINISTRATION
Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The Global Learning & Conference Center, located in Midtown Atlanta near the
center of the 1996 Olympic development, close to the Fox Theatre and Margaret
Mitchell house.

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Call for attending International Workshop on High Performance Computing and paper submissions, Deadline for submission is Aug 1st

2007-06-20T12:42:42Z

We are pleased to announce the Intensive International Workshop on HPC
for Informatics and Biosciences to be held in Bowling Green, Kentucky
from Oct 5th to Oct 7th, 2007. This workshop, which focuses on
addressing several key issues that stifle the growth in HPC, is
sponsored by Kentucky EPSCor and hosted by Department of Computer
Science and Department of Mathematics.

We would greatly appreciate your sharing it with your colleagues, and
encouraging your students to attend the workshop.

Further details can be found at our workshop website: http://www.wku.edu/iiwhpc2007

Thank you

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Call for Papers (CFP): International Journal of Integrative Biology (IJIB)

2007-06-09T01:04:09Z

Call for Papers (CFP)
International Journal of Integrative Biology (IJIB)

Dear Researcher,

I write to you in my role as Managing Editor of International Journal of
Integrative Biology (IJIB). IJIB (http://www.classicrus.com/IJIB/) is a
new journal and is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. The
International Journal of Integrative Biology (ISSN 0973-8363) is an
interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, free to publish, open-access journal
for biology beyond borders and is set to bridge scientific disciplines
and demonstrate the effectiveness of cross-disciplinary sciences. The
journal aims to bring together manuscripts from biological, medicinal,
physical, chemical, computational, and engineering sciences that address
key problems in biology and biomedicine. It is set to provide a vibrant
and unique forum to present information. and aims to provide the most
complete and reliable source of information on current developments in
the field.

The journal welcomes articles from all areas of biological and
biomedical sciences. It specifically encourages articles that transcend
traditional disciplinary boundaries. Such areas include but are not
limited to: Biological data integration, Tools and techniques in biology
and bioinformatics, Computational drug discovery, Systems level approach
to biology, Molecular and cellular biology of animals and plants,
Biology of microbial systems, Microarrays and gene expression, Pattern
discovery in Biology, Gene characterization, Genetic network modeling
and inference, RNA and DNA structure and sequencing, Biomedical
engineering, Cheminformatics, Comparative genomics, Protein modeling,
Molecular interactions, Metabolic modeling and pathways, Nutrigenomics
and Grid for Biology.

Manuscripts are selected for publication based on editorial assessment
of their general interest and suitability as well as reports from
independent referees. Submitted papers must be original (previously
unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical). All
submitted papers will be sent to reviewers for evaluation on
originality, relevance, significance, and readability.

We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this
journal. We would also like to request you to circulate this to
researchers / students working in the field.

Author Guidelines and further details of the publication can be viewed at:
http://www.classicrus.com/IJIB/

Kishore R. Sakharkar (Ph.D.)
Managing Editor IJIB
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Call for papers: Intensive International Workshop on HPC for Informatics and Biosciences, the deadline of submission has been extended to June 10th

2007-06-01T11:42:53Z

Dear Colleagues:

The Intensive International Workshop on HPC for Informatics and
Biosciences will be held
at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky from Oct 5th
to Oct 7th, 2007. This workshop, which focuses on addressing several key
issues that stifle the growth in HPC, is sponsored by Kentucky EPSCor
and hosted by Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics.

We would greatly appreciate your sharing it
with your colleagues, and encouraging your students to attend the workshop.

Further details can be found at our workshop website:
http://www.wku.edu/iiwhpc2007

Sincerely yours,

Submission of full papers: June 10th 2007
Submission of poster abstracts: June 10th 2007
Notification of acceptance: Aug 1st 2007
Deadline for registration: Sept 1st 2007

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Final Call for Papers--BIC-TA2007

2007-04-19T17:49:43Z

I'd like to apologize if you receive multiple emails.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Conference on

BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (BIC-TA2007)

Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, China

September 14-17, 2007

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BIC-TA2007 paper submission Deadline has been extended to May 10, 2007

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Organized by

Peking University, China
Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China
Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Hosted by

Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China

Co-Hosted by

Zhengzhou University, China
Zhongyuan University of Technology, China

Sponsors

National Natural Science Foundation of China
Henan Engineering Research Center for Biotechnology

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BIC-TA2007 aims to provide a high-level international forum for researchers
working in the main areas of natural computing inspired from biology to
present their recent results and exchange ideas.

The conference includes, but not limited to the following topics:

A. Theories and Methodologies
A1 Neural Networks
A2 Evolutionary Computing and Genetic Algorithms
A3 DNA and Molecular Computing
A4 Membrane Computing
A5 Biological Computing
A6 Swarm Intelligence
A7 Autonomy-Oriented Computing
A8 Cellular and Molecular Automata

B. Applications
B1 Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics
B2 Computational Biology and Drug Design
B3 Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology
B4 Computational Genomics and Proteomics
B5 Computational Neuroscience
B6 Artificial Life and Artificial Immune Systems
B7 Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
B8 Financial Engineering and Electronic Commerce
B9 Data Fusion, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
B10 Natural Language Processing and Expert Systems
B11 Computer Security and Computer Vision
B12 Circuit Design and Signal Processing
B13 Biological Implementation and Molecular Implementation
B14 DNA Nanotechnology
B15 Web and Network Application
B16 Multi-Objective Optimization
B17 Other Applications

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Deadlines

Submission Deadline: 10 May, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: 10 June, 2007
Final Version for the Pre-proceedings: 25 June, 2007

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Authors should submit a soft copy of their manuscripts with pdf format only
to the conference via the online submission systems.

The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been
submitted to elsewhere for possible publication. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance,
quality and clarity. The papers will be prepared in LNCS style (available at
http://www.springer.de or our website) with no more than 12 pages.

A pre-proceedings volume will be available during the conference. The expanded
and revised version of all accepted papers at BIC-TA 2007 will be published
after the conference in international journals indexed by SCI-Expanded.

The latest information on BIC-TA2007 and related Special Issues of journals are
available at: http://www.bic-ta.org

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Tel: +86-371-63627289

Fax: +86-371-63556791

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FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems (4-26 August 2007, Frankfurt, Germany)

2007-04-02T08:06:39Z

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Announcement and Call for Applications:

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Summer School on:

Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems

We invite applications for a three-week summer workshop that will be
held in Frankfurt, Germany from Saturday, August 4 to Sunday, August
26, 2007. The application deadline is Monday, April 30. Application
instructions are described at the bottom of this document.

FACULTY:

Emery BROWN, Harvard and MIT, USA
Peter DAYAN, Gatsby, England
Sophie DENEVE, ISC and CNRS, France
Yves FREGNAC*, CNRS, France
Ralf GALUSKE, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Wulfram GERSTNER, EPFL, Switzerland
Rainer GOEBEL, Univ. Maastricht, Netherlands
Christof KOCH*, Caltech, USA
Wolfgang MAASS, TU Graz, Austria
Christoph VON DER MALSBURG, FIAS, Germany
Bartlett MEL*, USC, USA
Matthias MUNK, MPI, Germany
Sergio NEUENSCHWANDER, MPI, Germany
Danko NIKOLIC, MPI, Germany
Gordon PIPA, FIAS and MPI, Germany
Kerstin SCHMIDT, MPI, Germany
Terrence SEJNOWSKI, Salk Institute, USA
Wolf SINGER, FIAS and MPI, Germany
Jean-Jacques SLOTINE, MIT, USA
Olaf SPORNS, Indiana Univ., USA
Jochen TRIESCH, FIAS, Germany
Misha TSODYKS, Weizmann Inst., Israel
Peter UHLHAAS, MPI, Germany
Carl VAN VREESWIJK, Rene Descartes Univ., France
Cornelius WEBER, FIAS, Germany
Michael WIBRAL, MPI, Germany
Laurenz WISKOTT, HU Berlin, Germany

*invited

GOALS and FORMAT:

There is a deficiency in the exchange of ideas between theoretical
physicists and experimental biologists. This arises from different
background knowledge bases and viewpoints, even when addressing the
same problem. The aim of the FIAS Summer School on Theoretical
Neuroscience and Complex Systems is to provide a bridge linking
experimentalists and theorists. The school also addresses the
challenge of further developing theoretical concepts and transferring
them into the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience. The success of
this will be dependent on the training of students that can bridge the
different fields.

The school comprises:
- a 4-day pre-school to establish a common foundation and language
- daily lectures by renowned international faculty
- hands-on work on self-defined projects in interdisciplinary groups
- a social and cultural program

For details see: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:

FIAS organizes the summer school and covers the accommodation and the
cultural program. Students have to pay a registration fee of 150 Euro.
Students in need of financial support can apply for a limited number
of reimbursements for travel expenses and waivers for the registration
fee. Please indicate this in your application and provide an estimate
of your travel expenses (in Euro).

HOW TO APPLY:

Students who have a bachelor, a master, a Ph.D., or other equivalent
degrees can apply for this summer school. To apply, please provide
two letters of recommendation, a curriculum vitae, as well as a one
page description of a small project you would like work on.

Information about applying and the summer school in general can be
found at the website: http://www.fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/

Applications must include:

- First name, last name, gender, affiliation, valid e-mail address
- Two letters of recommendation
- Curriculum Vitae
- Project proposal (max. one page)
- Optional: request for reimbursement of travel expenses
- Optional: request for waiver for registration fees

Please send your documents electronically to:
neuro_school@...

The application deadline is April 30, 2006.
Applicants will be notified by e-mail by May 26, 2006.

For further information, please contact:

Neuro School
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Max-von-Laue-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

email: neuro_school@...
tel: +49 69 798 47531
fax: +49 69 798 47611

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Bioinformatics 2007 - Spain

2007-03-27T07:03:13Z

Bioinformatics 2007

Torremolinos, Málaga (Spain)
11-14 June 2007

Workshop on Collaborative Bioinformatics
EMBnet Annual General Meeting
RIB Annual General Meeting

An international workshop on collaborative Bioinformatics will be held in
Torremolinos during 11 th -13 th of June 2007 in coordination with the
Annual General Meetings of the European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet)
and the Iberoamerican Bioinformatics Network (RIB).

The workshop will present major scientific endeavours in four main
Bioinformatics areas, with specific emphasis on their collaborative
aspects and on building up prospective ties and collaborations between the
participants.

You are invited to register and submit an abstract for
a contributed a posible poster or maybe a talk.
Deadline for registration and abstracts: April 15.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Starting on June, 11 th in the afternoon, specific sessions will take
place addressing current advances and opportunities for collaboration in
major areas, with a final, informal closing session being devoted to
general analysis and discussion of the topics presented taking place in
the afternoon of June 13th.
* Computational genomics and evolution (sequence analysis, multiple
alignment and evolution)
* Structural bioinformatics (structural biology, 3D-modelling and docking
and computer assisted drug design)
* Databases and Systems biology
*Training in Bioinformatics

More information at http://rib.cecalc.ula.ve/evento_2007.html

Regards

Raul Isea
by Organizing committees

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FINAL REMINDER: Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop 2007

2007-03-18T14:00:24Z

***Deadline for Application: March 23rd, 2007*****

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*Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
Call for Applications
Sunday, July 1st - Saturday, July 21, 2007
Telluride, Colorado*

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Avis COHEN (University of Maryland)
Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS (Johns Hopkins University)
Paul HASLER (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Timmer HORIUCHI (University of Maryland)
Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
Christof KOCH (California Institute of Technology)- Past Organization
Board Member
Terrence SEJNOWSKI (Salk Institute and UCSD)
Shihab SHAMMA (University of Maryland)
Andre van SCHAIK(University of Sydney)

We invite applications for a three week summer workshop that will be
held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday, July 1st to Saturday, July
21st, 2007. The application deadline is Friday, March 23rd, and
application instructions are described at the bottom of this document.

The 2007 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering is
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Neuromorphic
Engineering, Airforce Research Office, Eglin Airforce Research Lab,
Institute for NeuroInfomatics - ETHZ, Geogia Institute of Technology,
University of Maryland - College Park, Johns Hopkins University, and The
Salk Institute.

Last year's workshop was an exciting event and a great success. We
strongly encourage interested parties to browse through the previous
workshop web pages at: http://ine-web.org/workshops/past-workshops

GOALS:

Carver Mead introduced the term "Neuromorphic Engineering" for a new
field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural systems,
such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots, whose
architecture and design principles are based on those of biological
nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together young
investigators and more established researchers from academia with their
counterparts in industry and national laboratories, working on both
neurobiological as well as engineering aspects of sensory systems and
sensory-motor integration. The focus of the workshop will be on active
participation, with demonstration systems and hands on experience for
all participants. Neuromorphic engineering has a wide range of
applications from nonlinear adaptive control of complex systems to the
design of smart sensors. Many of the fundamental principles in this
field, such as the use of learning methods and the design of parallel
hardware (with an emphasis on analog and asynchronous digital VLSI), are
inspired by biological systems. However, existing applications are
modest and the challenge of scaling up from small artificial neural
networks and designing completely autonomous systems at the levels
achieved by biological systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying
this three week workshop is that the next generation of neuromorphic
systems would benefit from closer attention to the principles found
through experimental and theoretical studies of real biological nervous
systems as whole systems.

FORMAT:

The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on
systems neuroscience (in particular learning, oculo-motor and other
motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on analog VLSI design,
small mobile robots (Koalas, Kheperas, LEGO robots), hands-on projects,
and special interest groups. Participants are required to take part and
possibly complete at least one of the projects proposed. They are
furthermore encouraged to become involved in as many of the other
activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be two
lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to the
community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds among
the participants, the majority of these lectures will be tutorials,
rather than detailed reports of current research. These lectures will be
given by invited speakers. Participants will be free to explore and play
with whatever they choose in the afternoon. Projects and interest groups
meet in the late afternoons, and after dinner. In the early afternoon
there will be tutorial on a wide spectrum of topics, including analog
VLSI, mobile robotics, auditory systems, central-pattern-generators,
selective attention mechanisms, etc.
Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in a
number of working groups, including:

* active vision
* audition
* motor control
* central pattern generator and locomotion
* robotics
* multichip communication
* analog VLSI
* learning
* neuroprosthetic systems

The active perception project group will emphasize vision and human
sensory-motor coordination. Issues to be covered will include spatial
localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements,
and the use of visual motion information for motor control.

The central pattern generator group will focus on small walking and
undulating robots. It will look at characteristics and sources of parts
for building robots, play with working examples of legged and segmented
robots, and discuss CPG's and theories of nonlinear oscillators for
locomotion. It will also explore the use of simple analog VLSI sensors
for autonomous robots.

The robotics group will use rovers and working digital vision boards as
well as other possible sensors to investigate issues of sensorimotor
integration, navigation and learning.

The audition group aims to develop biologically plausible algorithms and
aVLSI implementations of specific auditory tasks such as source
localization and tracking, and sound pattern recognition. Projects will
be integrated with visual and motor tasks in the context of a robot
platform.

The multichip communication project group will use existing interchip
communication interfaces to program small networks of artificial neurons
to exhibit particular behaviors such as amplification, oscillation, and
associative memory. Issues in multichip communicationwill be discussed.

LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS:

The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride, 9000
feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver
(350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines
provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within the
beautifully renovated public school building are fully accessible to
participants with disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski
condominiums, within walking distance of the school. Participants are
expected to share condominiums.

The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on. Participants
are not required to have had previous experience in analog VLSI circuit
design, computational or machine vision, systems level neurophysiology
or modeling the brain at the systems level. However, we strongly
encourage active researchers with relevant backgrounds from academia,
industry and national laboratories to apply, in particular if they are
prepared to work on specific projects, talk about their own work or
bring demonstrations to Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software).
Internet access will be provided. Technical staff present throughout the
workshops will assist with software and hardware issues. We will have a
network of PCs running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop
projects. We also plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage
participants to bring along their personal laptop.

No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we recommend
that you do not rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain gear,
and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful mountains.
Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we expect
participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week workshop.

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:

Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around mid April 2007./*
Participants are expected to pay a $800.00 workshop fee*/ at that time
in order to reserve a place in the workshop. The cost of a shared
condominium will be covered for all academic participants but upgrades
to a private room will cost extra. Participants from National
Laboratories and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums.
/*Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for US domestic travel and up to
$800 for overseas travel will be possible if financial help is needed
(please specify on the application)*/.

HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above
(i.e.postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and
the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We
actively encourage women and minority candidates to apply.

The application website is:
http://ine-web.org/telluride-conference-2007/apply/

Application will include:

* First name, Last name, Affiliation, valid e-mail address.
* Curriculum Vitae.
* One page summary of background and interests relevant to the workshop.
* Two letters of recommendation (to be sent by references directly to
"Ralph Etienne-Cummings" <retienne@...>).

The application deadline is Friday, March 23, 2007.
Applicants will be notified by e-mail by the end of April.

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[Computational-biology] Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop 2007

2007-03-07T07:48:25Z

Please forgive us if you get this announcement more than once. You may
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*Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
Call for Applications
Sunday, July 1st - Saturday, July 21, 2007
Telluride, Colorado*

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Avis COHEN (University of Maryland)
Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS (Johns Hopkins University)
Paul HASLER (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Timmer HORIUCHI (University of Maryland)
Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
Christof KOCH (California Institute of Technology)- Past Organization
Board Member
Terrence SEJNOWSKI (Salk Institute and UCSD)
Shihab SHAMMA (University of Maryland)
Andre van SCHAIK(University of Sydney)

We invite applications for a three week summer workshop that will be
held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday, July 1st to Saturday, July
21st, 2007. The application deadline is Friday, March 23rd, and
application instructions are described at the bottom of this document.

The 2007 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering is
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Neuromorphic
Engineering, Airforce Research Office, Eglin Airforce Research Lab,
Institute for NeuroInfomatics - ETHZ, Geogia Institute of Technology,
University of Maryland - College Park, Johns Hopkins University, and The
Salk Institute.

Last year's workshop was an exciting event and a great success. We
strongly encourage interested parties to browse through the previous
workshop web pages at: http://ine-web.org/workshops/past-workshops

GOALS:

Carver Mead introduced the term "Neuromorphic Engineering" for a new
field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural systems,
such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots, whose
architecture and design principles are based on those of biological
nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together young
investigators and more established researchers from academia with their
counterparts in industry and national laboratories, working on both
neurobiological as well as engineering aspects of sensory systems and
sensory-motor integration. The focus of the workshop will be on active
participation, with demonstration systems and hands on experience for
all participants. Neuromorphic engineering has a wide range of
applications from nonlinear adaptive control of complex systems to the
design of smart sensors. Many of the fundamental principles in this
field, such as the use of learning methods and the design of parallel
hardware (with an emphasis on analog and asynchronous digital VLSI), are
inspired by biological systems. However, existing applications are
modest and the challenge of scaling up from small artificial neural
networks and designing completely autonomous systems at the levels
achieved by biological systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying
this three week workshop is that the next generation of neuromorphic
systems would benefit from closer attention to the principles found
through experimental and theoretical studies of real biological nervous
systems as whole systems.

FORMAT:

The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on
systems neuroscience (in particular learning, oculo-motor and other
motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on analog VLSI design,
small mobile robots (Koalas, Kheperas, LEGO robots), hands-on projects,
and special interest groups. Participants are required to take part and
possibly complete at least one of the projects proposed. They are
furthermore encouraged to become involved in as many of the other
activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be two
lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to the
community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds among
the participants, the majority of these lectures will be tutorials,
rather than detailed reports of current research. These lectures will be
given by invited speakers. Participants will be free to explore and play
with whatever they choose in the afternoon. Projects and interest groups
meet in the late afternoons, and after dinner. In the early afternoon
there will be tutorial on a wide spectrum of topics, including analog
VLSI, mobile robotics, auditory systems, central-pattern-generators,
selective attention mechanisms, etc.
Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in a
number of working groups, including:

* active vision
* audition
* motor control
* central pattern generator and locomotion
* robotics
* multichip communication
* analog VLSI
* learning
* neuroprosthetic systems

The active perception project group will emphasize vision and human
sensory-motor coordination. Issues to be covered will include spatial
localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements,
and the use of visual motion information for motor control.

The central pattern generator group will focus on small walking and
undulating robots. It will look at characteristics and sources of parts
for building robots, play with working examples of legged and segmented
robots, and discuss CPG's and theories of nonlinear oscillators for
locomotion. It will also explore the use of simple analog VLSI sensors
for autonomous robots.

The robotics group will use rovers and working digital vision boards as
well as other possible sensors to investigate issues of sensorimotor
integration, navigation and learning.

The audition group aims to develop biologically plausible algorithms and
aVLSI implementations of specific auditory tasks such as source
localization and tracking, and sound pattern recognition. Projects will
be integrated with visual and motor tasks in the context of a robot
platform.

The multichip communication project group will use existing interchip
communication interfaces to program small networks of artificial neurons
to exhibit particular behaviors such as amplification, oscillation, and
associative memory. Issues in multichip communicationwill be discussed.

LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS:

The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride, 9000
feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver
(350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines
provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within the
beautifully renovated public school building are fully accessible to
participants with disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski
condominiums, within walking distance of the school. Participants are
expected to share condominiums.

The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on. Participants
are not required to have had previous experience in analog VLSI circuit
design, computational or machine vision, systems level neurophysiology
or modeling the brain at the systems level. However, we strongly
encourage active researchers with relevant backgrounds from academia,
industry and national laboratories to apply, in particular if they are
prepared to work on specific projects, talk about their own work or
bring demonstrations to Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software).
Internet access will be provided. Technical staff present throughout the
workshops will assist with software and hardware issues. We will have a
network of PCs running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop
projects. We also plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage
participants to bring along their personal laptop.

No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we recommend
that you do not rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain gear,
and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful mountains.
Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we expect
participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week workshop.

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:

Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around mid April 2007./*
Participants are expected to pay a $800.00 workshop fee*/ at that time
in order to reserve a place in the workshop. The cost of a shared
condominium will be covered for all academic participants but upgrades
to a private room will cost extra. Participants from National
Laboratories and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums.
/*Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for US domestic travel and up to
$800 for overseas travel will be possible if financial help is needed
(please specify on the application)*/.

HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above
(i.e.postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and
the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We
actively encourage women and minority candidates to apply.

The application website is:
http://ine-web.org/telluride-conference-2007/apply/

Application will include:

* First name, Last name, Affiliation, valid e-mail address.
* Curriculum Vitae.
* One page summary of background and interests relevant to the workshop.
* Two letters of recommendation (to be sent by references directly to
"Ralph Etienne-Cummings" <retienne@...>).

The application deadline is Friday, March 23, 2007.
Applicants will be notified by e-mail by the end of April.

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