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Bioprotocols online

2009-12-07T17:09:26Z

Sciclips has launched a unique database of bioprotocols for
researchers. Researchers will have free access to these bioprotocols
which have been extracted from published journal articles and patents/
patent applications. We are the first to list protocols from published
US patents, US patent and WO (PCT) applications. We have thousands of
protocols on molecular biology, proteomics, biological imaging,
virology, immunology, stem cells, drug Discovery, immunoassays, cell
biology, epigenetics, genomics, neurosciecne, plant biology,
microbiology, tissue microarrays and more. In addition to this, we
have also listed new sections on high throughput screening (HTS) and
biopharmaceutical assay protocols. All the protocols are linked to the
articles or patent/patent applications. All the protocols are linked
to the articles or patent/patent applications.. Please follow this
link to see the complete list of our bioprotocols online:
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San Diego Biotech Incubator Program: Lab Space Available

2009-12-07T05:40:15Z

Friday 20 November 2009

In reference to the website from 1997 "Biotech Incubator Program", is
this program still in effect?

Please let me know, as I am looking for 'incubator' lab space.

Thank you,

Henry (Skip) Edmunds

skipedmunds@...

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Most cited research reagents and kits

2009-12-02T23:52:20Z

An interactive graph showing most cited research reagents and kits
that are
currently available in the market. The data is based on recent
published journal articles, patents and patent applications. The
current research reagent/kits listings are: Transfection reagents, RT-
PCR, Real-time PCR, RNA purification, cAMP assays, Cytotoxicity assays
and Western blot reagents. Please visit:

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Call for Papers Reminder: IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICWS 2010)

2009-12-02T00:49:32Z

CFP: IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web
Services (ICICWS 2010)
From: IAENG - International Association of Engineers

Draft Manuscript submission deadline: 8 December, 2009
Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration deadline: 10 January, 2010
ICICWS 2010: 17-19 March, 2010
http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2010/ICICWS2010.html

All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN:
978-988-17012-8-2). Revised and expanded version of the selected
papers may be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books
under the framework of cooperation between Springer, America Institute
of Physics and IAENG. The abstracts will be indexed and available at
major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered
for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering
Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. For reference, the
recent IAENG post conference edited books include titles like for
example: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering,
Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, and
Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research by
Springer.

The conference is held under the International MultiConference of
Engineers and Computer Scientists 2010. The IMECS 2010 is organized by
the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit
international association for the engineers and the computer
scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the
theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The
IMECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the
entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange
ideas. Our IMECS committees have been formed with over two hundred and
sixty committees members who are mainly research center heads, faculty
deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from over
30 countries. The last IMECS 2008 has attracted more than one thousand
participants from over 50 countries.

The topics of the ICICWS'10 include, but not limited to, the
following:

Internet architecture design
Internet search methods
Optimization methods
Security and protection
Fault Tolerance
Software Agents
Web Java-based applications
Knowledge-based web systems
Multimedia web tools, architectures, and broadcasting
Web data mining and database management
Coding and compression
Information retrieval
Distance learning
E-commerce applications
E-business modeling and applications
And other Internet applications and other web services applications

ICICWS Conference Co-Chairs and Committee Members:

Dr. Maaruf Ali
Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications Engineering & Media Technology,
Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Technology, Oxford
Brookes University, UK;
Vice-chair of the IEE Berkshire Specialist Branch on Electronics,
Control, Computing and Communications

Indranil Bose (co-chair)
Associate Professor, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong

Fidel Cacheda (co-chair)
Assistant professor, Department of Information and Communications
Technologies
University of A Coruna, Spain

Chin-Chen Chang
IEEE Fellow, IEE Fellow
Chair Professor in Department of Information Engineering and Computer
Science, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Yen-Wen Chen
Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication Engineering
National Central University, Taiwan

Dr. Manuel Jose Damasio (co-chair)
Head of course at the film, video and Multimedia course of the
Communication Sciences Department,
Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Enrique Herrera-Viedma (co-chair)
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence
Sub-director of the Library Sciences School
University of Granada, Spain

Robert Gay Kheng Leng (co-chair)
Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering &
Director, IT Research Infrastructure,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr. Takumi Ichimura
Research scientist, Department of Intelligent Systems, Hiroshima City
University, Japan

A. Tevfik INAN
Assistant professor, Computer Engineering Department, Yildiz Technical
University, Turkey

Dr. Hyojeong Jin
Research scientist, System Technology Division, Korea Institute of
Science and Technology, South Korea

Fu-Chien Kao
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and
Information Engineering, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan

Tadahiko Kumamoto (co-chair)
Associate Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Dr. Reggie Kwan
School of Science and Technology,
The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Dr. Cartik R. Kothari (co-chair)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Memphis, USA

Dr. Adela Lau (co-chair)
Assistant Professor & Co-Investigator of the Center for Integrative
Digital Health,
School of Nurisng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Dr. Deok Gyu Lee
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Soonchunhyang University,
South Korea

Layuan Li
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan
University of Technology, China;
Editor in Chief of the Journal of Wuhan University of Technology

Cha-Hwa Lin
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan

Dr. Wanli Ma
Lecturer, School of Information Science and Engineering,
University of Canberra, Australia

Kazuaki Maeda
Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration and
Information Science, Chubu University, Japan

Qusay H. Mahmoud (co-chair)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computing and Information Science
University of Guelph, Canada

Nikolaos Matsatsinis (co-chair)
Associate Professor, Decision Support Systems Laboratory
Technical University of Crete, Greece

Dr. George Mavrommatis
Hellenic Military Academy, Greece

Maria Luque Rodriguez
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Numerical Analysis
University of Cordoba, Spain

Dr. Zhaohao Sun
Lecturer, School of Economics and Information Systems,
Faculty of Commerce, University of Wollongong, Australia

Dr. Dat Tran
Senior Lecturer in Computing, School of Information Sciences and
Engineering,
University of Canberra, Australia

Fu Lee Wang, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Hsiao-Fan Wang
Chair Professor of Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Eunice Hsiao-Hui Wang
Professor, Department of Information Communication, Yuan Ze
University, Taiwan

A. Gokhan YAVUZ
Assistant professor, Computer Engineering Department, Yildiz Technical
University, Turkey

Wei Yen (co-chair)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of Industrial Cooperation Section
Tatung University, Taiwan

=========
Submission:

IMECS 2010 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective
authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any
appropriate style) to imecs{at}iaeng.org by 8 December, 2009. The
submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats.

The first page of the draft paper should include:
(1) Title of the paper;
(2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author;
(3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper.
Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to
should be stated in the email.

It is our target that the reviewing process and the result
notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one
month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the
quality of the accepted papers in the congress. The conferences have
enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues ( for example,
see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/
or http://www.conference-ranking.org/cs.html ).

More details about the IMECS 2010 can be found at:
http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2010/index.html

More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the
IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG
International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at:
http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html
The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at:
http://www.engineeringletters.com
http://www.engineeringletters.net
http://www.engineeringletter.com

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Final CFP: ISNN2010 (June 6-10, 2010; Shanghai, China)

2009-11-28T20:35:13Z

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

7th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010)

June 6-10, 2010; Shanghai, China

Websites: http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn or http://isnn2010.mae.cuhk.edu.hk

Extended submission deadline: December 8, 2009

Paper submissions: http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn/login.asp

The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010) will be held at the Majesty Plaza Hotel in Shanghai, following the successes of previous events. Shanghai is the largest city in China, located in her eastern coast at the outlet of the Yangtze River. Originally a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew to importance in the 19th century. In 2005 Shanghai became the world's busiest cargo port. The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been
described as the “showpiece” of the world's fastest-growing economy. In addition, Shanghai is the venue of forthcoming World Expo 2010 to take place from May 1 to October 31 (the symposium registration includes one day tour to the World Expo on June 10).

ISNN 2010 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2010. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2010. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. The ISNN 2010 proceedings
will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI) and Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (ISTP).

Selected good papers will be included in special issues of several journals including

Neurocomputing,
Neural Computation and Applications,
Cognitive Neurodynamics,
Cognitive Computation,
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

In addition, the International Neural Network Society (INNS) will offer two best student paper awards (US$250 each with one-year INNS membership).

************************************************
TOPIC AREAS
************************************************

1. Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Spiking neurons
Visual and auditory cortex
Neural encoding and decoding
Plasticity and adaptation
Brain imaging
Learning and memory
Inference and reasoning
Perception, emotion and development
Attractor and associative memory
Neurodynamics and complex systems

2. Models, Methods and Inference
Stability and convergence analysis
Neural network models
Supervised learning
Unsupervised learning
Embeddings and manifold learning
Active learning
Statistical and informationtheoretic methods
Kernel methods and support vector machines
Mixture models
Graphical and causal models
Bayesian networks
Topic models
Gaussian processes
Model selection
Matrix/tensor analysis
Structured and relational data
Clustering

3. Vision and Auditory Modelling
Visual perception and modelling
Visual selective attention
Statistical and pattern recognition
Visual coding and representation
Object recognition
Motion and tracking
Natural scene analysis
Auditory perception and modelling
Source separation
Speech recognition and speech synthesis
Speaker identification
Audio and speech retrieval
Music modelling and analysis

4. Control, Robotics and Hardware
Neuromorphic hardware and implementation
Embedded neural networks
Fuzzy neural networks
Cognitive robotics
Developmental robotics
Multi-agent systems and game theory
Reinforcement learning
Planning and decision making
Action and motor control
Visuomotor control

5. Novel Approaches and Applications
Brain-like systems
Adaptive intelligent systems
Brain-computer interfaces
Granular computing
Hybrid intelligent systems
Neuroinformatics and neuroengineering
Bioinformatics
Information retrieval
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Natural language processing

************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
************************************************

Full paper submission deadline (extended): December 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2010
Camera-ready copy and author registration: February 1, 2010

For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at isnn2010@sjtu.edu.cn

New Academia.edu feature for BioForum

2009-11-23T11:27:12Z

Dear BioForum members,

I wanted to tell the list about a new feature on Academia.edu.
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Visit the link below, sign up with Academia.edu, and share your
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BCBGC-10 Call for papers

2009-11-14T02:58:18Z

BCBGC-10 Call for papers

The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational
Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website:
http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010
in Orlando, FL, USA. BCBGC is an important event in the areas of
bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics
and focuses on all areas related to the conference.

The conference will be held at the same time and location where
several other major international conferences will be taking place.
The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference
(MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in
Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote
research and developmental activities in computer science, information
technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is
to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary
audience and to facilitate communication among researchers,
developers, practitioners in different fields. The following
conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition (AIPR-10)
• International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control
Systems (ARCS-10)
• International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)
• International Conference on Computer Networks (CN-10)
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web
Technologies (EISWT-10)
• International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems
(HPCS-10)
• International Conference on Information Security and Privacy
(ISP-10)
• International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer
Vision (IVPCV-10)
• International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice
(SETP-10)
• International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website
http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.

Sincerely
James Heralds
Publicity committee
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Call for Papers: IAENG International Conference on Bioinformatics (ICB 2010)

2009-11-12T02:10:58Z

CFP: IAENG International Conference on Bioinformatics (ICB 2010)
From: IAENG - International Association of Engineers

Draft Manuscript submission deadline: 8 December, 2009
Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration deadline: 10 January, 2010
ICB 2010: 17-19 March, 2010
http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2010/ICB2010.html

All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN:
978-988-17012-8-2). Revised and expanded version of the selected
papers may be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books
under the framework of cooperation between Springer, America Institute
of Physics and IAENG. The abstracts will be indexed and available at
major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered
for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering
Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. For reference, the
recent IAENG post conference edited books include titles like for
example: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering,
Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, and
Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research by
Springer.

The conference is held under the International MultiConference of
Engineers and Computer Scientists 2010. The IMECS 2010 is organized by
the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit
international association for the engineers and the computer
scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the
theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The
IMECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the
entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange
ideas. Our IMECS committees have been formed with over two hundred and
sixty committees members who are mainly research center heads, faculty
deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from over
30 countries. The last IMECS 2008 has attracted more than one thousand
participants from over 50 countries.

=========
Submission:

IMECS 2010 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective
authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any
appropriate style) to imecs{at}iaeng.org by 8 December, 2009. The
submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats.

The first page of the draft paper should include:
(1) Title of the paper;
(2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author;
(3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper.
Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to
should be stated in the email.

It is our target that the reviewing process and the result
notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one
month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the
quality of the accepted papers in the congress. The conferences have
enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues ( for example,
see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/
or http://www.conference-ranking.org/cs.html ).

The topics of the ICB'10 include, but not limited to, the following:

Sequence analysis
Sequence alignment
Sequence database
Sequence profiling tools
Sequence motif
RNA interference analysis
High throughput screening
Gene network and pathway analysis
Genome annotation
Gene finding
Computational evolutionary biology
Gene expression analysis
Analysis of mutations in cancer and other diseases
Structure prediction
Structural motif
Preserving biodiversity
Modeling biological systems
Software tools
Protein expression analysis
Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis
And other applications

ICB Conference Co-Chairs and Committee Members:

Dechang Chen
Assistant professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA

Dr. Qingfeng Chen (co-chair)
School of Information Technology
Deakin University, Australia

I-Jen Chiang
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics,
Taipei Medical University
Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Biomedical
Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Wallace Choy (co-chair)
Research Ass. Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Jui-chien Hsieh (co-chair)
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics
Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Hsueh-Fen Juan
Assistant Professor, Department of Life science
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Xueliang Li
Deputy Director and Professor
Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, China

Chiung Moon
Associate Professor, Department of Information & Industrial
Engineering,
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Area Editor of the Journal of Industrial Engineering & Management
Systems

Alejandro Murua (co-chair)
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Montreal, Canada
Associate Editor, International Journal of Tomography and Statistics

Dr. Dat Tran
Senior Lecturer in Computing, School of Information Sciences and
Engineering,
University of Canberra, Australia

Lin-Yu Tseng (co-chair)
Professor, Department of Computer Science
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Jer-Shyan Wu (co-chair)
Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics
Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Cheng-Hong Yang
Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering,
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan

Dr. Xiaohua (Douglas) Zhang
Senior biometrician, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA

ICB Special session: Pharmacogenomics
Special session chair:
Xiaohua (Douglas) Zhang, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Senior biometrician, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA

More details about the IMECS 2010 can be found at:
http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2010/index.html

More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the
IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG
International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at:
http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html
The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at:
http://www.engineeringletters.com
http://www.engineeringletters.net
http://www.engineeringletter.com

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BICoB-2010 CFP - paper Deadline Extended: November 23, 2009

2009-11-11T15:56:52Z

Submission Deadline Extended: November 23, 2009

*** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***
****************************************************
BICoB-2010 - Call for Papers
http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/
<http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/>
2nd International Conference
on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB)
March 24 - 26, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Full paper Submission Deadline:...............................November
23, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: .....................................
December 23, 2009
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due:...... January 15, 2010

Computational techniques have already enabled unprecedented advances in
modern
biology and medicine. This continues to be a vibrant research area with
broadening of
computational techniques and new emerging challenges. The Bioinformatics
and
Computational Biology (BICoB) conference was established by the ISCA to
promote
the advancement of computing techniques and their application to life
sciences. T

he BICoB conference will feature original unpublished research in all
areas of
bio-informatics and computational biology, and covering the entire
spectrum of
underlying computational techniques/models/paradigms. The topics of
interest include
(and are not limited to):
* Genome analysis: Genome assembly, genome and chromosome
annotation,
gene finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis and comparative
genomics.
* Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search
and clustering,
function prediction, motif discovery, functional site recognition
in protein, RNA and
DNA sequences.
* Phylogenetics: Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution,
comparative biological
methods, population genetics.
* Structural Bioinformatics: Structure matching, prediction,
analysis and comparison;
methods and tools for docking; protein design
* Analysis of high-throughput biological data: Microarrays
(nucleic acid, protein,
array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE, MPSS,
proteomics, mass
spectrometry.
* Genetics and population analysis: Linkage analysis, association
analysis, population
simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, genotype calling.
* Systems biology: Systems approaches to molecular biology,
multiscale modeling,
pathways,gene networks.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
BICoB welcomes submissions in all areas of computing with impact on life
sciences
including (but not limited to) algorithms, databases, languages,
systems, and high
performance computing. For example:
- Parallel and high-performance techniques
- Unifying computational techniques
- Data and image mining techniques
- Approximation and randomized algorithms and systems
- Computational biology on emerging architectures and hardware
accelerators
Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (PDF only). A full
paper, including
title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax
and email of the
principal author, should be submitted by November 23, 2009 at the
following web site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BICOB2010/
The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it
will appear in
the Proceedings which will be a maximum of 6 pages (+2 pages with
additional page
charge). ISCA double-column format will be used.
See http://www.isca-hq.org/sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf .
Latex users: http://www.isca-hq.org/Latex-format.htm
If you encounter any difficulties during submission or if you require
further information,
please contact: isca@....

Authors wishing to have their papers reviewed for possible publication
in the ISCA
Journal of Computers and Applications should send by postal mail or
email expanded
versions of their papers directly to the Editor, Prof. David Jeff
Jackson.
(See Instructions to Authors at: http://www.isca-hq.org/j-authr.htm )

................................................... IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper Submission Deadline:
......................................November 23, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:
............................................... December 23, 2009
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due:................ January 15,
2010

CONFERENCE CHAIR

George Karypis
University of Minnesota
karypis@...

PROGRAM CHAIRS

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University of Houston-Clear Lake
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CFP: ISNN2010 (June 6-10, 2010; Shanghai, China)

2009-11-09T03:25:15Z

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN2010)
June 6-10, 2010; Shanghai, China

Websites: http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn or http://isnn2010.mae.cuhk.edu.hk

Paper submissions: http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn/login.asp

The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010) will be held in Shanghai, following the successes of previous events. Shanghai is the largest city in China, located in her eastern coast at the outlet of the Yangtze River. Originally a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew to importance in the 19th century. In 2005 Shanghai became the world's busiest cargo port. The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the “showpiece” of the world's fastest-growing economy. In addition, Shanghai is the venue of forthcoming World Expo 2010 to take place from May 1 to October 31 (the symposium registration includes one day tour to the World Expo on June 10).

ISNN 2010 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2010. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2010. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. The ISNN 2010 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI) and Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (ISTP). Selected good papers will be included in special issues of several journals such as Neurocomputing, Neural Computation and Applications, Cognitive Neurodynamics, Cognitive Computation, and Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. In addition, the International Neural Network Society (INNS) will offer two best student paper awards (US$250 each with one-year INNS membership).

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TOPIC AREAS
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1. Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Spiking neurons
Visual and auditory cortex
Neural encoding and decoding
Plasticity and adaptation
Brain imaging
Learning and memory
Inference and reasoning
Perception, emotion and development
Attractor and associative memory
Neurodynamics and complex systems

2. Models, Methods and Inference
Stability and convergence analysis
Neural network models
Supervised learning
Unsupervised learning
Embeddings and manifold learning
Active learning
Statistical and informationtheoretic methods
Kernel methods and support vector machines
Mixture models
Graphical and causal models
Bayesian networks
Topic models
Gaussian processes
Model selection
Matrix/tensor analysis
Structured and relational data
Clustering

3. Vision and Auditory Modelling
Visual perception and modelling
Visual selective attention
Statistical and pattern recognition
Visual coding and representation
Object recognition
Motion and tracking
Natural scene analysis
Auditory perception and modelling
Source separation
Speech recognition and speech synthesis
Speaker identification
Audio and speech retrieval
Music modelling and analysis

4. Control, Robotics and Hardware
Neuromorphic hardware and implementation
Embedded neural networks
Fuzzy neural networks
Cognitive robotics
Developmental robotics
Multi-agent systems and game theory
Reinforcement learning
Planning and decision making
Action and motor control
Visuomotor control

5. Novel Approaches and Applications
Brain-like systems
Adaptive intelligent systems
Brain-computer interfaces
Granular computing
Hybrid intelligent systems
Neuroinformatics and neuroengineering
Bioinformatics
Information retrieval
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Natural language processing

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2010
Camera-ready copy and author registration: February 1, 2010

For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at isnn2010@sjtu.edu.cn

IEEE CIBCB '10 Call For Papers

2009-11-02T04:22:28Z

Call for Papers: IEEE CIBCB 2010

2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
2-5 May 2010, Montreal, Canada

IMPORTANT DATES:

Special Session Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009
Tutorial Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009
Paper submission deadline: 15 Dec. 2009
Author notification: 15 Feb. 2010
Camera-ready paper deadline: 15 Mar. 2010
Conference: 2-5 May 2010

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SCOPE:

This symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students
from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of
Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in
biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics,
bioengineering and related fields.

Computational Intelligence (CI) approaches includes artificial neural networks,
fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid approaches and other emerging
techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- high-throughput data analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, etc.)
- molecular docking and drug design
- RNA and protein folding and structure prediction
- metabolic pathway analysis
- analysis of large biological data sets
- single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis
- immuno- and chemo-informatics
- molecular evolution and phylogenetics
- bio and medical ontologies
- microRNA gene expression analysis
- molecular sequence alignment and analysis
- systems and synthetic biology
- emergent properties in complex biological system
- computational proteomics
- motif and signal detection
- medical image analysis and pattern recognition
- in-silico optimization of biological systems

The use of computational intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted
papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings and will be indexed in IEEE eXplore.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than
eight (8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and
references. Submission details can be found on the symposium web
site at: www.cibcb.org/CIBCB2010. Authors are expected to present their paper
at the symposium.

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS and TUTORIALS:

Consult the CIBCB'10 symposium web site for instructions on proposing a special
session or tutorial. Papers for special sessions must have significant
computational intelligence content.

LOCATION:

The symposium will take place at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal located in beautiful
downtown Montreal close to the University of Montreal and McGill University

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair L. Gwenn Volkert
Program Chair: Dan Ashlock
Technical Co-Chairs: Francesco Masulli
Mihail Popescu
Clare Bates Congdon
Publicity Chair: Sorin Draghici
Proceedings Chair: Chengpeng (Charlie) Bi
Finance Chair: Gary Fogel

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Direct your questions or requests for additional information to:

L. Gwenn Volkert Ð volkert@... - CIBCB 2010 General Chair
or
Daniel Ashlock - dashlock@... - CIBCB 2010 Program Chair

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World Congress, Lisbon 2010 - Call for Papers

2009-10-16T04:19:21Z

The third edition of the World Congress and School on Universal Logic will
happen April 18-25, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.

There will be:
10 invited speakers, among them: Hartry Field, George Grätzer, Yuri
Gurevich, Gehrard Jaeger, Dana Scott

10 special sessions, among them: logic diagrams, substructural logics,
non-classical mathematics, categorical logic, mutlimodal logics, paradoxes

21 tutorials, among them: Hybrid logic, Logical Pluralism, Erotetic
Logics, Truth-values, Refutation, Ideospheres, How to cut and paste
logical systems

1 contest: How to combine logics?

Submission deadline for contributed talks has been extended to November
15, 2009

UNILOG'2010
World Congress and School on Universal Logic III
April 18-25, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.uni-log.org

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16th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (WorldPharma2010), Copenhagen, 17-23 July 2010

2009-10-13T11:32:40Z

Dear colleague

Invitation

The 16th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (WorldPharma2010), Copenhagen, 17-23 July 2010

We are pleased to announce that this World congress will be held in Copenhagen next year. WorldPharma 2010 will provide in-depth treatment of the hottest topics in basic and clinical pharmacology. The full programme of 400 invited speakers may be viewed on www.worldpharma2010.org <http://www.worldpharma2010.org/Preliminary-07.09.pdf> . Sam Enna, Secretary General of IUPHAR, has described the programme as truly "the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary in the history of IUPHAR congresses".

We hope that you will also find the programme attractive.

In planning the program, particular attention has been made to involve young investigators and investigators from developing countries for whom bursaries are available. See www.worldpharma2010.org <http://www.worldpharma2010.org/> for further details. Deadline for applications is 1 December.

The homepage is also now open for submission of abstracts and hotel booking. Early submission and booking are advised.

The World's pharmacologists will all be meeting in Denmark 17- 23 July 2010. Don't miss out on WorldPharma 2010! We promise you a scientifically rewarding experience as well as the opportunity to savour the atmosphere of Copenhagen.

Kim Brøsen Michael Mulvany

President Secretary-General.

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Prof. Michael J. Mulvany

Secretary-General WorldPharma2010

Department of Pharmacology

University of Aarhus

University Park 1240

8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

Tel +45 8942 1711

Fax +45 8612 8804

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question

2009-10-08T13:30:58Z

Hello,

I am having problem in expressing GST fusion protein. The GST alone is
expressed fine, but the fusion protein is not. After trying different
temp. [37 c, room temp.], and different IPTG concentrations [ 1mM,
5mM] there is no detectable expression of fusion protein.
I am using pGex2T K and BL21.
Can you help me with this?
Thank you.

Sukanya.

Sukanya Majumder,
Graduate Student,
Department of Biology,
Room No. MLS 224,
University of Vermont,
120A MLS, 109 Carrigan Drive,
Burlington, Vermont-05405.
Contact No. 802-656-0704 (Office).

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Reactome Pathway Database User Survey

2009-09-22T14:03:58Z

Reactome is committed to providing access to high-quality pathway information and helpful data analysis tools. With this in mind, we are actively soliciting comments from the research community in order to assess community needs. We are interested to hear about your experience with Reactome, and would like to know a bit about your background and research interests so that we can continue to improve the Reactome site and tools.

You can access the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/l48zzq

Thank you for taking part.

Robin Haw
Manager of Reactome Outreach
Outreach [at] reactome.org
http://www.reactome.org
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Distance courses in bioinformatics and computational biology

2009-09-15T23:10:14Z

At the University of Manchester, UK, we have over 10 years experience in
running a range of online courses in computational biology. These
courses are designed to enable biologists and computer scientists to
update their skills while remaining in the workplace. They are also
very suitable for home study, helping you to keep in touch with a
research environment while taking a career break.

The courses beginning on 5 October 2009 include:

Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics for Systems Biology

'Introduction for Bioinformatics' covers the methods for sequence data.
It would be a useful course for people interested in areas such as
metagenomics or multi-locus sequence typing.

We are also have funding from the BBSRC to develop new courses in
computational systems biology. The first of these courses,
Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, is running in October. It will be
followed by :

Mathematics for metabolic modelling
Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks

You will find further information, including fees and a link to the
online application form, here:
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any
questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact
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Molecular Therapy of Breast Cancer: Classicism Meets Modernity (book)

2009-09-05T03:51:28Z

NEW BOOK ! (September 2009)

Molecular Therapy of Breast Cancer: Classicism Meets Modernity
(by Marc Lacroix)

Nova Sciences Publishers, New York, ISBN 978-1-60741-593-0

(hardcover): https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=10042
(online book): https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=11919

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and a
second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer.
Despite their proven efficacy, classical therapies are, however,
unable to cure metastatic breast cancer and are often associated with
significant toxicity and side-effects, due to a wide spectrum of
action. During the last years, our increasing knowledge of the
molecular pathways underlying cancer development has led to the
introduction of new drugs, of which most are directed towards very
specific targets. Rather than to be used as single agents, these
“modern” compounds could ultimately be combined with “classical”
molecules.

Here are described nearly 150 drugs that are currently (2009) used in
routine therapy or are in clinical trials in breast cancer patients.
>From the classical tamoxifen, fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide,
doxorubicin, epirubin, docetaxel, paclitaxel…, to the more recently
introduced ixabepilone, lapatinib, vorinostat, everolimus,
bevacizumab…, they also include capecitabine, gemcitabine,
trastuzumab, fulvestrant, aromatase inhibitors, cancer vaccines,
inhibitors of tumor-induced osteolysis, insulin-like growth factor-I
receptor inhibitors, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1 inhibitors,
and many others.

This book offers an insight into current developments of breast cancer
therapy, when classicism meets modernity.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) and down-
regulators (SERDs)
Chapter 3. Aromatase inhibitors
Chapter 4. Agents inducing ovarian suppression
Chapter 5. Antimetabolites
Chapter 6. Alkylating agents
Chapter 7. Anthracyclines
Chapter 8. Microtubule-binding agents
Chapter 9. Topoisomerase inhibitors
Chapter 10. HER family inhibitors
Chapter 11. Angiogenesis inhibitors
Chapter 12. Insulin-like growth factor-I receptor inhibitors
Chapter 13. RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK pathway inhibitors
Chapter 14. Ubiquitin-proteasome system inhibitors
Chapter 15. Histone deacetylases inhibitors
Chapter 16. Mitotic inhibitors
Chapter 17. Inhibitors of heat-shock proteins 90 and 27
Chapter 18. PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway inhibitors
Chapter 19. Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors
Chapter 20. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1 inhibitors
Chapter 21. Tumor-induced osteolysis inhibitors
Chapter 22. Vaccines and immunomodulators
Chapter 23. Varia
Index

List of drugs/compounds discussed in the book:

ABT-888, ABT-869, Ad-sig-hMUC-1/ecdCD40L vaccine, AE37 peptide/GM-CSF
vaccine, Aflibercept, AFP464, AG014699, Alendronate, Aldesleukin,
Allogeneic GM-CSF-secreting breast cancer vaccine, ALT-801, AMG 386,
AMG 479, Anastrozole, Apricoxib, ARRY-334543, AS1402, ATN-224,
Autologous dendritic cell-adenovirus p53 vaccine, AV-951, AVE1642,
AVX701, AZD0530, AZD6244, Bavituximab, Belinostat, Bevacizumab,
BGT226, BIBW 2992, BMS-754807, Bortezomib, Bosutinib, BSI-201,
Busulfan, BZL101, Capecitabine, Carboplatin, CDX-1307, Celecoxib,
Cetuximab, CHP-HER2, CHP-NY-ESO-1, Cisplatin, Cixitumumab, Clodronate,
CNF2024, CR011-vcMMAE, Cyclophosphamide, Dasatinib, Deforolimus,
Denileukin diftitox, Denosumab, Docetaxel, Doxorubicin, Entinostat,
Enzastaurin, Epirubicin, Eribulin , Erlotinib, Ertumaxomab, Etoposide,
Everolimus, Exemestane, Falimarev, Figitumumab, Fluorouracil,
Fulvestrant, Gefitinib, Gemcitabine, Goserelin, GP2 peptide/GM-CSF
vaccine, GRN163L, GSK1059615, HER2/neu (extracellular domain) peptide
vaccine, hTERT/Survivin Multi-Peptide Vaccine, Ibandronate,
Ifosfamide, Imatinib, IMP321, Inalimarev, Interleukin-12, Irinotecan,
Ispinesib, Ixabepilone, Lapatinib, Larotaxel, Letrozole, Leuprolide,
Lonafarnib, Lonaprisan, Mammaglobin-A DNA vaccine, Melphalan,
Methotrexate, MK0646, MK-0752, MLN8237, Modified vaccinia Ankara
(Bavarian Nordic)-HER2 vaccine, Neratinib, NVP-AUY922, NVP-BEZ235,
Odanacatib, OGX-427, Olaparib, OSI-906, Ovarian Cancer Peptide Mix
Immunotherapeutic Vaccine, Oxaliplatin, Paclitaxel, Panobinostat,
Patupilone, Pazopanib, PD-0332991, Pemetrexed, Pertuzumab,Picoplatin,
pNGVL3-hICD vaccine, PTC299, Ramucirumab, Recombinant fowlpox-CEA(6D)/
TRICOM vaccine, Recombinant vaccinia-CEA(6D)-TRICOM vaccine,
Retaspimycin, Rexin-G, Risedronate, Sagopilone, SCH 727965, Sialyl
Lewisª-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) conjugate vaccine, Sirolimus,
Sorafenib, Sunitinib, Tamoxifen, Telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine,
Temozolomide, Temsirolimus, Tesmilifene, Thiotepa, Tipifarnib,
Toremifene, Trabectedin, Trastuzumab, Trastuzumab-MCC-DM1,
Triptorelin, TTK peptide (mixed with adjuvant Montanide ISA-51),
Valproic Acid, Vandetanib, Vinflunine, Vinorelbine, Vorinostat,
WX-671, Zoledronic Acid
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Re: Pressure limit AND Ni-NTA beads

2009-08-04T12:40:45Z

Am 03.08.2009, 14:25 Uhr, schrieb Pepa Florez Pérez
<snipeurope@...>:

> Can anyone please tell me about why does the pressure limit is important
> when dealing with affinity chomatography?
> How can this (pressure limit too high) affect my purification?
> Am I destroying the beads?

When you expose your beads to too high a pressure, they get compressed,
and as a result packed more tightly. That reduces the flow rate of the
column. You may also affect the pore size of the gel, so that fewer active
groups are accessible to the protein -> reduced capacity.

If I did the math correctly, 2 psi corresponds to about 0.13 bar or 1.3 m
of water column, which is low even for makeshift setups with gravity feed.
Probably simple agarose. I would switch to a stronger (crosslinked) gel
like Sephacryl.
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Pressure limit AND Ni-NTA beads

2009-08-03T11:25:21Z

Hello everybody,

here it is my first question. I am using Ni-NTA agarose beads to purify a protein.
According to the manufacturer the limit pressure is around 2 psi (nothing), and I am running the column to 50 psi.

Can anyone please tell me about why does the pressure limit is important when dealing with affinity chomatography?

How can this (pressure limit too high) affect my purification?

Am I destroying the beads?

I am running the column (home-prepacked tricorn) on an akta-prime.

I would really appreciate any information since I couldn't find any info on the web.

Thank you very much,

Eva

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Professional development in bioinformatics and systems biology

2009-07-30T13:35:25Z

Evidence of continuing professional development is increasingly
important to scientists planning a career move, whether this is to be a
promotion or a change in direction.

The University of Manchester's online courses in computational biology
and bioinformatics can help with your career development, being
specifically designed for biologists needing to update their skills
while remaining in the workplace. The courses are also very suitable
for those interested home study, helping you to keep in touch with a
research environment during a career break.

The courses running next semester, starting in October 2009, include:

Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics for Systems Biology
Introduction to software development in Java
Theory and Applications in Bioinformatics

You will find further information, including fees and a link to the
online application form, here :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any
questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact
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(no subject)

2009-07-28T08:10:24Z

Hello out there! I would like to ask whether anyone knows any easy test to verify thiolination of oligonucleotides. It turns out to be that I use thionilated oligos for my experiments and sometimes I have trouble and this seems to be a synthesis problem (i.e. the thionilation reaction of the oligos was not complete). Thanks a lot in advance.

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1st CFP RIAO 2010

2009-07-27T14:03:53Z

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First Call for Papers RIAO 2010 - 9th RIAO Conference
Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
28-30 April, 2010
Paris, France (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
http://www.riao2010.org/

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline November 30, 2009
Notification to authors February 5, 2010
Camera-Ready copies due March 1, 2010
Conference dates April 28-30, 2010
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History
The RIAO conference is a triennial conference, which addresses research
topics related to the design of robust and large-scale scientific
and industrial solutions to information processing.
Previous RIAO editions were held at Grenoble (1985), MIT (1988), Barcelona
(1991), Rockefeller University (1994), Montreal (1997), Paris (2000),
and Avignon (2004), and Carnegie Mellon University (2007).
Past RIAO conferences were constituted by both peer-reviewed scientific
sessions and demonstrations of innovative industrial applications and
advanced research prototypes.

Scope of RIAO 2010
Submissions are invited which present recent, original and unpublished
research on the theme of RIAO 2010: adapting, personalizing and merging
heterogeneous information.

Submissions may address one or more of the following subjects:

Information filtering
* Content based filtering
* Collaborative filtering
* Recommender systems
* Spam, protection of minors
Social networks
* Folksonomies, tagging
* Blogs
* Social search
* Communities
* Opinion and sentiment
Personalized IR and User modelling
* Adaptive IR
* Collaborative IR
* Interfaces
Information fusion
* Mash Ups
* Aggregated search
* Systems for watch, business decision
Formal models, theory
Information extraction and natural language processing, multilinguality
* Summarization
* Question answering
* Entity/relation extraction
* Cross-Language IR, Machine translation for IR
Multimedia Information Retrieval
* Image IR
* Video IR
* Speech/audio IR
* Music IR, analysis of multimedia content
Web Search and Advertising
* Adversial IR
* Advertising
* Link analysis
Applications
* Cultural heritage
* Trademark search
* Scientific media
* Bio-computing and medical
* Database offloading

Evaluation, benchmarking

Machine Learning for IR
* Learning to rank
* Probabilistic topic models
* All kinds of learning techniques applied to IR

Program Chairs
Gabriella Pasi (Europe)
Tie-Yan Liu (Asia)
Prabhakar Raghavan (Americas)

Paper Submission

We welcome submissions from both research and industrial communities
addressing the main conference theme.
Submitted papers must describe an unpublished original work, emphasizing
completed or advanced research, possibly with releted experiments.
A parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the
program committee.
The submissions (which have to be blind) will be reviewed by at least
three program committee members. The submissions will be evaluated on
the basis of
originality, relevance, technical quality, and presentation.
Papers can be submitted in two categories: full papers and short papers,
where full papers are appropriate for describing
substantial research with related evaluations and short papers will
typically describe ongoing research and preliminary results. All
accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference
proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk
and short papers will be presented as a poster.
Long papers must not exceed 12 pages (5000 words), in one column format,
starting with an abstract.
Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (2500 words), in one column,
starting with an abstract.
Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format or in PDF.

The conference proceedings will be available to conference attendees,
and through the CID after the conference.

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Ibuprofen

2009-07-27T09:15:46Z

Well, this is 14 years late, but...

Ibuprofen's chemical makeup is C13H18O2.  http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0108270197003193


I just thought is would be fun to reply to a post fourteen years old.
_____________________________________________
Hi!

I'm not a med geek, I'm a computer geek.  A friend of mine ( a med
geek ) asked me to track down a list of chemicals that go into the

manufacture of Ibuprofen.  Does anyone know where to look?

She's got a paper due tomorrow, has the molecular outline, etc... just
not the base chemicals that go into its manufacture.  

She challenged me to find this information on the Net.  I think I've

done a good job just finding the chemical name (
Alpha-Methyl-4-(2-methylpropyl)benzeneacetic acid )

Please help!

I'll owe you a computer geek favor :)

Regards,

Malcolm Mead

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qPCR NEWS July 2009 - focus on single-cell qPCR

2009-07-27T00:14:22Z

qPCR NEWS July 2009 - focus on single-cell qPCR
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Dear researcher,
dear Gene Quantification page reader,

Our newsletter informs about the latest news in quantitative real-time
PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), which are compiled and summarised on the Gene
Quantification homepage. The focus of this newsletter issue is:

- update in single-cell real-time PCR
- qPCR / real-time PCR BLOG => http://real-time-pcr.blogspot.com/
- qPCR LinkedIN group - real-time PCR & qPCR =>
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=149835&trk=anet_ug_grppro
- For better navigation we developed a TAG CLOUD =>
http://directory.gene-quantification.info/
- New qPCR events in autumn 2009: symposia & workshops =>
http://events.gene-quantification.info/

European wide qPCR application workshops => register now !
=> course program spring - summer - autumn 2009
=> http://www.gene-quantification.de/bioeps-courses-autumn-2009.pdf
=> http://www.gene-quantification.de/single-cell-qpcr-course-sept-2009.pdf

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Single-cell molecular-biology is a relatively new scientific branch in
biology. The first single-cell analysis were involved in the
characterization of mitochondrial DNA in 1988. Single-cell DNA
analysis, in particular genomic DNA, is important and may be
informative in the analysis of genetics of cell clonality, genetic
anticipation and single-cell DNA polymorphisms. Nowadays for most
scientists the quantitative transcriptomics in a single-cell is much
more important, and the analytical method of choice is the
quantitative real-time RT-PCR. The relative abundance of single mRNAs
and their up- or down-regulation in a single cell, compared to their
neighbour cells, is the goal. The need for quantitative single-cell
mRNA analysis is evident given the vast cellular heterogeneity of all
tissue cells and the inability of conventional RNA methods, like
northern blotting, RNAse protection assay or classical block RT-PCR,
to distinguish individual cellular contributions to mRNA abundance
differences.

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from in vivo liver tumours.
- Rac1 regulates pancreatic islet morphogenesis.
- A novel single-cell quantitative real-time RT-PCR method for
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- Quantification of circulating endothelial and progenitor cells:
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- Prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer patients by detecting
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- Nanoliter reactors improve multiple displacement amplification of
genomes from single cells.
- Fluidigm Dynamic Arrays provide a platform for single-cell gene
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- Intracellular expression profiles measured by real-time PCR
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- Quantification of mRNA in single cells and modelling of RT-qPCR
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- Intracellular Gene Expression Profi les Revealed with Real-time PCR
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Depending on the occasion the workshop language and the different
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Bioinformatics Frequently Asked Question

2009-07-21T12:48:07Z

Bioinformatics Frequently Asked Question
http://biotech.fyicenter.com/resource/bioinformatics_faq_2_table_of_contents.html

A large collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for
Bioinformatics maintained by Damian Counsell, UK Medical Research
Council Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomic Research (the RFCGR)
1998-2004.

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biotinylated PCR stability

2009-07-05T11:57:21Z

Hi,

I am doing PCRs using biotin-dCTP. Afterwards, I keep the biotinylated product in the fridge. I noticed that if I use the labeled PCR the following day for my experiments, I get high signals (streptavidin development) but if I use it 3-4 days later instead, the signal is very weak. Does anyone know whether the biotin is that unstable bound to DNA? Thanks in advance.

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BIONETICS: submission deadline extension- 05 July.

2009-06-30T07:27:25Z

Extended Deadline : 05/07/2009.

*** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies ***

BIONETICS 2009
http://www.bionetics.org <http://www.bionetics.org/>

4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network,

Information, and Computing Systrems

December 9-11, 2009 - Avignon, France

Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked

devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple
scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro and nano-devices. Many
of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the

surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way. The fundamental
research challenge is the design of robust decentralized computing systems,
capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet

exhibit the desired behavior and response time, under constraints such as
energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able
to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to

display properties comparable to social entities. Biological systems are
able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency
still far beyond current human artifacts. Based on this observation,

bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the past years as a strategy
to handle the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods on
how to engineer technical solutions which have similar high stability and

efficiency as biological entities often have. The BIONETICS conference aims
at bringing together researchers and scientists from several disciplines in
computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods are

investigated. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the
following areas including but not limited to these topics:

- * Bio-Inspired mathematical models, methods and tools *
- * Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanism *

- * Bio-inspired technical systems *
- * Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT) *

*PAPERS*:

The conference invites original technical papers that have not been
previously published and are not currently under review for publication

elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to bio-inspired
technologies are solicited.
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: *

All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled
electronically. Please visit the conference website

http://www.bionetics.orgfor <http://www.bionetics.orgfor/> detailed
submission
requirements and
procedures.
* PUBLICATION:*

All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by technical

program committee members and the reviewers they invite. A selected number
of best papers will be considered for publication in a *leading journal*.
*IMPORTANT DATES*

- *Paper Submission Due Date: *July 5th, 2009
- *Notification of Acceptance:* August 21th,, 2009
- *Camera Ready Version Due:* September 20th, 2009

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION NEXT GENERATION DATA MINING SUMMIT: ENERGY, EMISSIONS & TRANSPORTATION

2009-06-27T02:51:57Z

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION NEXT GENERATION DATA MINING SUMMIT: DEALING WITH THE ENERGY CRISIS,
GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS, AND TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES

Location: Baltimore
Date: October 1--3, 2009
Workshop Web Site: http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/
Primary Sponsors: National Science Foundation and KD2U

CALL FOR PAPERS

The world is facing a number of critical challenges. Finding the next
generation of solutions for energy supply, reducing greenhouse emission,
and transportation problems is critical to sustain the world and our
civilization. Energy crisis is a major challenge that needs to be
addressed for sustaining and further developing the world. Greenhouse
emissionsis widely believed to be connected with energy consumption.
Transportation system has significant effect on the energy consumption
and on greenhouse emission. Many problems related to greenhouse emissions
and transportation industry are critically connected to the consumption
and supply of energy. Information processing and advanced data analysis
techniques are likely to play important roles in solving these problems
for the next generation.

Efficient production, distribution, and consumption of existing and
alternate energy would require supporting information processing
networks in order to adaptively control and protect the underlying
physical systems. Understanding the effects of greenhouse emissions
requires advanced data analysis techniques for understanding remotely
sensed data. Reducing the carbon footprints of buildings, vehicles, and
airplanes would require continuous monitoring of sensors and detecting
deviation from desired behavior. Designing the next generation of
transportation network becomes particularly challenging in the context
of increasing demand for energy supplies and reducing greenhouse
emission. Sensor networks for highways and vehicles equipped with
diagnostic data bus along with the availability of machine-to-machine
wireless communication networks are going to make the role of advanced
data mining techniques very important in the transportation industry.
Computing in itself is under scrutiny from the perspective of its effect
on greenhouse emissions and pollution. We need to pay close attention to
the environmental impacts of computing and the supporting
infrastructure. Overall, we need to explore technology for sustainable
computing and computing technology for a sustainable world.

The Next Generation Data Mining (NGDM?09) Summit: Dealing with Energy
Crisis, Greenhouse Emission, and Transportation Challenges? will bring
together data mining researchers, scientists and engineers from a
diverse background along with domain experts.

NGDM'09 will focus on the following areas:

1) Energy crisis, information processing, and data mining

2) Greenhouse emissions, climate changes, and data mining

3) Transportation, emissions, and data mining

The summit will generate a report based on the presentations and
discussions of the participants. We would like to invite paper (extended
abstract) submissions from data mining researchers and practitioners.
The papers should be relevant to the focus areas of NGDM'09. The papers
must present innovative research directions that may be suitable for the
agenda of the summit. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages. The
summit will accept only electronic submission of papers in PDF or
Postscript format to "info at kd2u dot org" with "NGDM09 Submission" in
the subject line. The papers will be included in the NGDM?09
proceedings. The summit will also produce an edited book. Extended
versions of the selected papers will be included in the book.

For more details please visit the workshop website.

INVITED SPEAKERS

NGDM'09 will have many invited speakers. The list includes:

Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Cisco
(http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/Castilla-Rubio.pdf)
Tom Dietterich, Professor, Oregon State University
(http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/)
Carla Gomes, Professor, Cornell University
(http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/)
Vipin Kumar, Professor, University of Minnesota
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/)
Rich Lechner, Vice President, IBM
(http://www-05.ibm.com/hu/soasummit/cv_lechner.html)
Mark McGranaghan, Director, Electric Power Research Inst.
(http://my.epri.com)
Shashi Shekhar, Professor, University of Minnesota
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/)
Brian Worley, Director CSED, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/brian-worley)
Philip Yu, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
(http://www.cs.uic.edu/~psyu/)

**More to be announced soon......**

GENERAL CHAIR

Hillol Kargupta
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of
Maryland Baltimore County
& Agnik
Web: www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol
E-mail: info@...

STEERING COMMITTEE

Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
Hillol Kargupta, Univ. of Maryland, Balt. County
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Lab.

REPORTS CHAIR

Chris Giannella, New Mexico State University

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Codrina Lauth, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany

NGDM'09 ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Budhedra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alok Chowdhary, Northwestern University
Wei Fan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory
Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper/Poster/Demo-proposal Submission deadline: August 15, 2009
Notification: August 31, 2009
Camera-ready due: September 15, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: September 8, 2009
Summit: October 1-October 3, 2009

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Re: Magnetic Effects of MRI

2009-06-26T13:09:12Z

Am 26.06.2009, 00:27 Uhr, schrieb Margaret Glaser
<bitterpearl@...>:

> MRI evolved in an environment in which there was the belief that non-
> ionizing radiation would not hurt you, as long as it was not intense
> enough to burn or cook you. That view is being seriously challenged in
> a lot of peer-reviewed studies around the world now---especially studies
> done without RF industry money. A good review of the science---several
> hundred pages worth, but in sections---can be found at
> www.bioinitiative.org.

Those interested in the so called "electromagnetic hypersensitivity
syndrome" can find a report on a conference by WHO under
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594128_eng.pdf

For those short of time my summary of this report:

- there are some sick people out there who claim their condition is caused
by electromagnetic fields.

- these people can not detect the presence of EMF and their condition is
independent of the presence or absence of such fields in double-blind
studies.

- there is no physical or epidemiological evidence suggesting a connection
between EMF and disease (if dose is within internationally accepted
limits).

- there is often a pre-existing psychiatric condition and signs + symptoms
may worsen by the fear of EMF.

- patients should be carefully evaluated (both their medical condition and
their environment), any cause for disease found should be eliminated.
Otherwise the treatment is symptomatical.
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Magnetic Effects of MRI

2009-06-25T21:27:51Z

I was just reading the post on MRI effects in the long-term. It is
interesting that there do not seem to be any long-term studies. It
would be difficult to say that there is no effect, when there is no
mechanism (?) for recording any effects and processing the
information. Considering how often they are used---not just for
specific medical purposes, but in studies on basically well people in
order to learn more about some aspect of human functioning---it would
seem ethically wrong to continue with no long view. I don't know how
many years they have been used, but I believe the intensity and
frequencies, and perhaps the characteristics of the wave forms have
changed over the years, so that one might not be sure that what used
to seem safe, still is.

MRI evolved in an environment in which there was the belief that non-
ionizing radiation would not hurt you, as long as it was not intense
enough to burn or cook you. That view is being seriously challenged
in a lot of peer-reviewed studies around the world now---especially
studies done without RF industry money. A good review of the
science---several hundred pages worth, but in sections---can be found
at www.bioinitiative.org. This was completed in summer of 2007 by an
international working group of independent researchers and public
health experts. Called "The BioInitiative Report," it has been
having a big impact in Europe and some other parts of the world. It
led the European Union this year to issue a resolution concerning the
need for precaution re RF (radiofrequency radiation), and several
other countries have weighed in on this, as well.

I'm not sure whether MRI is mentioned in the report. I think it is
an area that will be one of the last to be addressed, because of the
medical benefit that is gained in most cases. But if you read the
review of the studies, you will see that all different frequencies
and intensities of RF are "whispering" (so to speak) to the body and
these signals are evoking reactions from the body's cells, affecting
different processes. It appears that about 2-3% of the population
may be more sensitive to RF and EMFs in general, than others. One of
the effects that has been seen in several studies to occur at an
exceedingly low intensity level is the opening of the blood-brain
barrier. This should make us pause, at least, and start looking at
potential long-term effects from multiple MRI's. One "established"
effect, which I heard about from the RF industry people themselves,
is that some people experience "seasickness" while having an MRI
(presumably, contrast medium effects were accounted for). "Don't
ask, don't tell" is not a good policy when it comes to determining
whether medical procedures are truly safe in the long-run.

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2009-06-17T07:30:00Z

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CFP: ISNN2010 (June 6-9, 2010; Shanghai, China)

2009-06-01T01:09:52Z

ISNN2010 CALL FOR PAPERS

Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks

June 6-9, 2010, Shanghai, China

http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn
http://isnn2010.mae.cuhk.edu.hk

The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010) will be held in Shanghai, following the successes of previous events. Shanghai is the largest city in China, located in her eastern coast at the outlet of the Yangtze River. Originally a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew to importance in the 19th century. In 2005 Shanghai became the world's busiest cargo port. The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the “showpiece” of the world's fastest-growing economy. In addition, Shanghai is the venue of forthcoming World Expo 2010 to take place from May 1 to October 31.

ISNN 2010 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2010. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2010. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. The ISNN 2010 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI) and Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (ISTP). Selected good papers will be included in special issues of several journals.

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TOPIC AREAS
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1. Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Spiking neurons
Visual and auditory cortex
Neural encoding and decoding
Plasticity and adaptation
Brain imaging
Learning and memory
Inference and reasoning
Perception, emotion and development
Attractor and associative memory
Neurodynamics and complex systems

2. Models, Methods and Inference
Stability and convergence analysis
Neural network models
Supervised learning
Unsupervised learning
Embeddings and manifold learning
Active learning
Statistical and informationtheoretic methods
Kernel methods and support vector machines
Mixture models
Graphical and causal models
Bayesian networks
Topic models
Gaussian processes
Model selection
Matrix/tensor analysis
Structured and relational data
Clustering

3. Vision and Auditory Modelling
Visual perception and modelling
Visual selective attention
Statistical and pattern recognition
Visual coding and representation
Object recognition
Motion and tracking
Natural scene analysis
Auditory perception and modelling
Source separation
Speech recognition and speech synthesis
Speaker identification
Audio and speech retrieval
Music modelling and analysis

4. Control, Robotics and Hardware
Neuromorphic hardware and implementation
Embedded neural networks
Fuzzy neural networks
Cognitive robotics
Developmental robotics
Multi-agent systems and game theory
Reinforcement learning
Planning and decision making
Action and motor control
Visuomotor control

5. Novel Approaches and Applications
Brain-like systems
Adaptive intelligent systems
Brain-computer interfaces
Granular computing
Hybrid intelligent systems
Neuroinformatics and neuroengineering
Bioinformatics
Information retrieval
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Natural language processing

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IMPORTANT DATES
************************************************

Special session proposals deadline: November 1, 2009
Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2010
Camera-ready copy and author registration: February 1, 2010

For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at isnn2010@sjtu.edu.cn

working temperatures for Porapak Q 80-100 C-5752 to work with liquid ethanol 99.5% enquiry

2009-05-29T15:08:52Z

Hi,

I am wondering if I can use liquid ehanol 99.5% as a standard to work with GC (Shimadzu GC-14B) and Porapak Q 80-100 C-5752.
If the answer is yes, what is the column temperature, injection temperature and detector temperature I should work with?

Now I was told to dilute the ethanol with DI water to the concentration that suit my sample (ppm). The GC set to column temperature 140 C, injection temperature 160 C and detector temperature 180 C. After some trials I found the results of the peak areas were not consistent with the concentrations. Please advice anything that might suit my work. I have to finish this work very soon.

Thanks,
Kloyjai

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Conservation genetics data analysis course

2009-05-14T11:57:26Z

4th ConGen- Population Genetics Data Analysis Course
Recent Approaches for Estimation of Population Size, Structure, Gene
flow, Selection Detection focusing on conservation and beyond
31-Aug/4-Sep 2009, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Montana, USA

Applications for 2009 are open!

Objective: To provide training in conceptual and practical aspects of
data analysis for the conservation genetics of natural and managed
populations. Emphasis will be on interpretation of output from recent
novel statistical approaches and software programs. The course also
will allow daily discussions among young researchers and
top-researchers to help develop the next generation of conservation
geneticists, and to identify developments needed to improve data
analysis approaches. This course will cover analysis methods including
the coalescent, Bayesian, approximate Bayesian, and likelihood-based
approaches.

Who should apply: Ph.D. students, post-docs, and population biologists
with a background of at least one semester university-level course in
population genetics and a course in population ecology. Applicants
must have a basic background in population genetic data analysis,
including testing for Hardy-Weinberg proportions and gametic
disequilibrium.

Participation will be limited to 20 people allowing efficient
instruction with hands-on computer exercises during the course.
Priority will be given to persons with their own data to analyze (for
example graduate students at the end of their degree program).

Deadline for application is 30 June, 2009

Course/Workshop Format: For each subject, we provide 30-45 minutes of
background, theory, discussion and introduction to concepts.
Immediately following, we will conduct data analyses together for
30-60 minutes using relevant software programs and real data sets.
Evening hands-on computer sessions and housing together of instructors
and students in the same location will allow for extensive exchange
and facilitate learning.

For detailed information see http://popgen.eu/congen2009/

congen@...

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Re: The location of the nucleus

2009-05-08T12:12:39Z

Am 06.05.2009, 02:14 Uhr, schrieb Albert <albert.xtheunknown0@...>:

> Why isn't the nucleus located at the center of a cell? Is it so that
> it doesn't get destroyed during division?

That depends on which cell you are talking about. Plant cells for example
have a large vacuole in the centre, with cytosol and organelles largly
restricted to the periphery.
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