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 [log in to unmask] 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 
[log in to unmask] 
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 
([log in to unmask]) 


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 ([log in to unmask]) 
or 
Chris Rawlings ([log in to unmask]) 

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