Subject: 4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop - 3rd call for papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE - 11 JUNE 2007 THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE - 11 JUNE 2007 4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop September 10-12, 2007 University of Ghent, Belgium http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib07/ Papers are invited for oral presentations. Submission must be through the workshop web site. Accepted papers will also appear in the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics http://journal.imbio.de/ DESCRIPTION Biological data are scattered across hundreds of biological databases and thousands of scientific journals. Current high throughput genomics technologies generate large quantities of high dimensional data. Microarray, NMR, mass spectrometry, protein chips, gel electrophoresis data, Yeast-Two-Hybrid, QTL mapping, gene silencing and knockout experiments are all examples of technologies that capture thousands of data points, often in single experiments. The challenge for Integrative Bioinformatics is to capture, model, integrate and analyse these data in a consistent way to provide new and deeper insights into complex biological systems. This, fourth workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics will be of interest to Bioinformaticians, Computer Scientists and others working in, or interested in finding out more about, the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. There will be opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches or their practical applications. SPONSORS The European Science Foundation have kindly agreed to sponsor this workshop as part of their functional genomics programme. This enables us to extend the workshop programme and we are able to offer some travel and subsistence bursaries for research students. TOPICS Database Integration Combined dry and wetlab studies Molecular Databases / Data Warehouses Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases Prediction and Integration of Metabolic and Regulatory Networks Genotype - phenotype linkage Protein-Protein-Interactions Microarray Modeling and Analyses Integrative Approaches for Drug Design Computational Infrastructure for Biotechnology Text and data mining Virtual Cell Modeling Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression Identification of Gene Regulatory Networks Computational Systems Biology Computational Proteomics Optimization of Workflow Management in Bioinformatics Bio Ontologies Quality and consistency of ontologies Integrative modeling and simulation frameworks Integrative data and text mining approaches IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED DEADLINES: June 11: Paper submission deadline July 16: Notification of acceptance for papers July 30: Camera ready paper submission deadline August 13: Registration deadline August 27: Poster submission deadline KEYNOTE TALKS Prof Carole Goble, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK "myExperiment: A MySpace for the Self-serving Bioinformatician" Prof Søren Brunak, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark "Integrating data for interactome analysis across organisms" Dr David Searls, Senior Vice President, Informatics, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, USA "Integrative Drug Discovery" Dr Luis Serrano, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany "Structure-based prediction of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions" ORGANISING COMMITTEE Ralf Hofestädt Bielefeld University, Germany Jacob Koehler Rothamsted Research, UK Martin Kuiper University of Gent, Belgium Paul Verrier Rothamsted Research, UK CONTACT Karen Morris, BAB Division, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Herts. AL5 2JQ, UK [log in to unmask] tel: 01582 763133 ext 2813 fax: 01582 467907