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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