O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference Call for Participation
For Immediate Release
June 28, 2002
For more information contact:
Suzanne Axtell, (707) 827-7114 or suzanne@oreilly.com
O'REILLY ANNOUNCES BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Call for Participation: Proposals due September 9, 2002
Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly & Associates invites participation in its
second annual Bioinformatics Technology Conference, happening February
3-6, 2003. The conference takes place in San Diego, CA, one of the
nation's wellsprings of bioinformatics activity, at the Westin Horton
Plaza.
>From food to cancer drugs to combating terrorism, bioinformatics is an
emerging discipline with far-reaching implications. Biologists and
computer programmers are developing powerful tools for storing,
managing, and analyzing enormous data sets from biological systems.
Given today's economic challenges, these pioneers are focusing more
than ever on developing tools that they can put to immediate practical
use.
In an interview conducted last year, just before O'Reilly's premier
Bioinformatics Technology Conference, keynote speaker Dr. Leroy Hood
made a prediction for the future of bioinformatics. "With the enormous
increase in hardware capacity, I don't think there are going to be any
technical limits on what we can do. So I think the grand challenge is
the successful integration of computational biology, or bioinformatics,
with biology itself."
The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference takes up this
challenge of integrating science and computational tools head-on.
Practitioners from biology, computer science, software engineering,
mathematics, and other related disciplines come together for four days
of information exchange, learning, and fun--all with the hope of taking
the practice of bioinformatics to even greater heights. This conference
is designed to bridge the gaps between communities and address what may
be the most important issue in bioinformatics: how to get the job
done.
The conference begins with one day of tutorials, providing deep
coverage of essential issues in bioinformatics, such as: data privacy
and access; building, managing, and using databases; microarrays; data
modeling; sequence analysis; and high-throughput analysis techniques.
Three days of conference sessions follow, organized into four tracks:
tool design; algorithm design; system administration and
infrastructure; and end-user applications. Each track focuses on the
technologies, techniques, and tools used to understand and analyze
biological data. Specific topics we'll explore are: data formats,
mining, structures, and visualization; emerging data types; structural
and comparative genomics; building and using clusters; pharmacogenics;
pattern recognition; mark-up languages; proteomics; gene annotation;
workflow and knowledge management systems; dynamic programming;
bio-ethics; ontology creation; and employing BioJava, Bioperl, and
Biopython.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PROPOSALS DUE SEPTEMBER 9, 2002
We are interested in ideas and techniques that focus on innovative and
practical ways of using tools to extract, process, or predict
information that advances biological science, research, education, or
commercial activity. We're particularly seeking proposals that
highlight case studies, best practices for a tool or system,
fundamental skills, and novel solutions to difficult problems.
Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a
tutorial, or participating in panel discussions are invited to submit
proposals for tutorials and conference presentations (sessions).
Presentations by marketing staff or with a marketing focus will not be
accepted; neither will submissions made by anyone other than the
proposed speaker. If you are interested in participating in or
moderating panel discussions, or otherwise contributing to the
conference, please let us know (and please include your area of
expertise). If you have a suggestion for a panel topic, or for a
particularly provocative group of panelists that you'd love to see
square off, feel free to send your suggestions to
biocon-idea@oreilly.com.
The submission deadline for all proposals is September 9, 2002.
Presenters will be notified of selection results by October 7, 2002.
EXHIBITION AND SPONSORSHIP
If you are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring the conference,
contact Andrew Calvo at 707-827-7176, or andrewc@oreilly.com.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
For information about the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology
Conference, visit: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/bio2003/
For more details about tutorial and conference session topics, and to
submit a proposal, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/e_sess
For information about last year's O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology
Conference, see: http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon2002/
For articles and news about bioinformatics, visit: http://bio.oreilly.com/
For information on all O'Reilly Conferences, see:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/
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