Hi all, For those who haven't heard, the below symposium in Cambridge may be of interest to those working in data integration. Quite a few of us from the Hinxton campus working on DAS will be around. Early registration deadline is 20th Feb.
Cheers, Andy Begin forwarded message: > From: <[email protected]> > Date: 18 February 2010 12:35:34 GMT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: IB2010 - WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS > > IB2010 - Integrative Bioinformatics Symposium > > WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS > > The 6th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics > is being held from 22nd to 24th March 2010 > in Churchill College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. > > Online registration, the provisional programme and abstracts of the currently > list of accepted posters and demonstrations are available from the > symposium web site at: > > http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib2010 > > This sixth meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics has an exciting programme > of supporting workshops and tutorials along with demonstrations of new > software > that will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and other > working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of > integrative > bioinformatics. > > TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS > > Biological Data Integration and Visualisation > for Systems Biology > > 22nd March 2010 09:30 - 12:00 > > In this tutorial, we provide hands-on experience of a software system called > Ondex (www.ondex.org) that is being used in a range of different systems > biology > projects in the UK. Ondex is an open source data integration platform for the > life sciences that enables data from diverse biological data sets to be > integrated, > visualised as biological networks and interpreted using graph analysis > techniques. > > Ondex has a friendly user-interface that can be used to prepare integrated > datasets for data mining and has the ability to bring together information > from > structured databases and unstructured sources, such as free text. > > For more information please see programme at > http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib2010/Ondex_IB2010.pdf. > > Alternatively please email [email protected] if you have any further > questions or > wish to register your attendance at the tutorial. > > EMERALD - Enhancing Data Quality > 22nd March 2010 10:00 - 12:00 > > The focus of the workshop is to discuss and illustrate the importance of > microarray > data quality and will sum up the work done by the EU EMERALD project over a > three year > period. Presentations will highlight efforts on the implementation of quality > metrics > and standards to and how experience from this project can be applied to new > high > throughput array technologies. This workshop is freely open to all IB2010 > registrants. > But, those not registered for the IB2010 conference that only wish to > participate at the > EMERALD session, please register (for free) by sending an email to > [email protected] > at the latest by 11th march 2010. > > Gene Networks for Bench Scientists Workshop > 24th march 14:00 - 17:30 plus 25th march 09:30 - 12:00 > > This workshop, aimed at lab absed scientists, provides hands-on experience > with software > tools for Visualization and analysis of expression networks using BioLayout > Express3D; > Assembly and Modelling of Biological Pathways; Reverse engineering of gene > networks using > GeneNet and Modelling variability in gene networks using Copasi. > In order to register at this workshop, please email Paul Verrier > ([email protected]) > > > Topics of interest to Symposium delegates include: > Data integration and knowledge management > Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases > Combined dry- and wet-lab studies > Prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks > Genotype-phenotype linkage > Protein-protein interactions > Integrative microarray modelling and analyses > Integrative approaches for drug design > Virtual cell modelling > Tool integration and workflow systems > Computational systems biology > Integrative modelling and simulation frameworks > Integrative data and text mining approaches > Network analysis > Data visualisation and visual analytics > > Further information can be obtained from > Paul Verrier ([email protected]) > or > Chris Rawlings ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ DAS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das
