Systems Biology meetings & conferences

ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO)

October 29, 2012

In conjunction with ACM 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) Maui, Hawaii, USA

October 29-November 2, 2012

DTMBIO 12 organizers are pleased to announce that the sixth DTMBIO will be held in conjunction with CIKM, one of the largest data and text mining conferences. While CIKM presents the state-of-the-art research in informatics with the primary focus on data and text mining, the main focus of DTMBIO is on biomedical and healthcare informatics. DTMBIO delegates will bring forth interesting applications of up-to-date informatics in the context of biomedical research.

Biological researchers face the current challenge of making effective use of the enormous amount of electronic biomedical data in order to better understand and explain complex biological systems. The biomedical data repositories include data in a wide variety of forms, including bibliographic information from electronic medical journals, gene expression data from Microarray experiments, protein identification and quantification data from proteomics experiments, genomic sequences gathered by the Human Genome Project, and patient healthcare records. The ability to automatically and effectively extract, integrate, understand and make use of information embedded in such heterogeneous - structured and unstructured - data remains a challenging task.

Topic of Interest
The relevant topics include the following (but not limited to):

- Proposal and assessment of novel Text Mining (TM) evaluation
- Evaluation methods of biomedical applications, shared tasks
- Biomedical and Clinical text mining applications
- Information extraction from biomedical and clinical corpora (full texts, abstracts, EHRs, clinical trials, etc)
- Information retrieval from large biomedical data collections
- Gene sequence annotation
- Protein/RNA structure prediction
- Medical Ontologies and Text Mining
- Sequence and structural motifs
- Modeling of biochemical pathways and biological networks
- Image Mining in Medical and healthcare informatics
- Data and Text Mining solutions in biomedical informatics, for applications such as drug development, system biology, biomedical working processes
- Information integration for Data and Text Mining
- Mining multi-relational data

Genome Informatics Workshop 2012

December 12-14, 2012 Tainan, Taiwan

Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) is the longest running international bioinformatics conference in the world. The scope includes all works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on the molecular basis and the aims are to present recent results of both theoretical and practical research, to demonstrate biological systems, and to show new applications and directions of future research. The first GIW was held at Tokyo in 1990. Since then, GIW has been held annually around the countries in Asia-Pacific region. This year's GIW is the 23rd anniversary and will be held at Tainan in Taiwan. The purpose of GIW2012 is to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to exchange ideas and approaches.

National Cheng Kung University and Taiwan Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (TSBSB) are honored to host the GIW2012. We are delighted to give you a warm welcome to Tainan in Taiwan.

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students

November 7-10, 2012 San Jose, California

ABRCMS
American Society for Microbiology Education Department
1752 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Ph: 202-942-9348
Fax: 202-403-3513

Email:abrcms@asmusa.org

Mathematical and Computational Medicine Conference 2012

Saturday December 1 2012 - Wednesday December 5 2012 Xcaret, Mexico

The purpose of the Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine is to bring together eminent scholars with expertise in various fields of mathematical and computational medicine, as well as experimentalists and medical doctors interested in application of computational methods in clinical studies. The mathematical and computational medicine is now one of the most important and rapidly growing fields of modern medicine, and will become even more important in nearest future, when the cost of individual human gene sequencing becomes affordable for mass-scale clinical use (The $1000 Human Genome). New sequencing techniques, such as RNA-Seq produce enormous amount of information on the transcriptome in healthy and diseased cells, that need a development of new mathematical and computational methods to extract the most important medical information. The scope of the proposed Zing Conference will cover many different fields mathematical and computational medicine and biomedical informatics, such as genetics, genomics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of various diseases including mental and learning disorders, autism, and somatic diseases, with a special emphasis on cancer, protein misfolding disorders related to amyloid formation in neurogenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease), gene regulation, biomarker development, computer aided drug development, computational pharmacodynamics, computational immunology, systems biology and its extension to systems medicine, machine learning methods in application to biomedical data, applicability of computational methods in personalized medicine, and regenerative medicine. A special session will be devoted to errors in measurements of biomedical data and statistical evidence-based medicine.

For general queries about conference attendance, registration, payment, accommodation, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').

From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology

European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Saturday 17 November - Tuesday 20 November 2012

Why You Should Attend

The EMBO ‘From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology’ conference has served as an important venue in helping to shape the field and generate a community of scientists that come from very diverse disciplines. The common goal is to understand the systems level properties of complex systems at all scales from molecular processes to cells, tissues and organisms. The meeting was initiated in 2002 and has been held every two-years at EMBL Heidelberg, with the 2012 meeting being the sixth biennial conference. Due to the excellent line up of speakers, the interactive atmosphere and lively discussions after the talks, the feedback from both the participants and speakers at past meetings has always been excellent, with many 2010 speakers calling the meeting ‘the highlight of the year’. For 2012, there is a full program of confirmed speakers available online. Given their caliber, at the cutting edge of genomics, the 2012 meeting will be a major event and a must attend for people interested in Genomics and Systems biology.

Aims of event
The main objective of this conference is to bring people together from these diverse disciplines to exchange ideas, promote cross-disciplinary collaborations and to form a synthesis of appropriate systems-level approaches.

Topics
The meeting is purposely very broad and covers all aspects of functional genomic approaches to systems biology, going from the genome to phenotype. These include general principles of transcription, transcriptional networks, protein interactions, functional interaction networks (synthetic lethal screens, genetics, RNAi), synthetic biology, multi-dimensional data integration and qualitative and quantitative modeling.

EMBL Course and Conference Office
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Meyerhofstraße 1
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Tel: +49 6221 387 8908
Fax: +49 6221 387 8158

13th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology

in collaboration with the

Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research

and

Eurasia Pacific Uninet

September 2 - 6, 2012 Graz, Austria

The International Society for Ethnopharmacology is a collaborative, interdisciplinary group of scientists - anthropologists, pharmacists, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, phytochemists, and others - all fascinated by the study of the local and global use of traditional medicines.

The 13th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology will be organized in collaboration with the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research and Eurasia-Pacific Uninet, and will be hosted by University of Graz, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Graz/Austria from September 2 - 6, 2012.

Traditional medicinal knowledge has been transferred over the centuries and also over wide distances, and develops into globalised herbal medicine. In this congress we want to focus in particular on the intercultural aspects of herbal medicine and its relevance in modern societies. As an example, we want to discuss the relevance of the Silk Road for the exchange of medicinal plants and medicinal knowledge between east and west.

The research topics presented in plenary and keynote lectures will in particular deal with a holistic approach and the application of systems biology in medicinal plant research. Special emphasis will be on traditional and modern herbal medicinal products in ageing related and infectious diseases. However, presentations from other areas of ethnopharmacology will also be accepted as short lectures and posters.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

Intercultural ethnopharmacology Ethnomedicine along the Silk Road Herbal medicines - from traditional knowledge to global commodities Holistic approach and systems biology in medicinal plant research Traditional and modern herbal medicinal products in aging related diseases Traditional and modern herbal medicinal products in infectious diseases

Research contributions (short lectures, posters) related to the main scientific topics of the conference or other fields of ethnopharmacological plant research are warmly welcomed.

All abstracts must be submitted in pdf-format via our conference management system not later than April 1, 2012.

All correspondence concerning scientific items should be addressed to:

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bauer
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacognosy

Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Universitätsplatz 4
8010 Graz, Austria

Phone: +43-(0)316 380-8700
Fax: +43-(0)316 380-9860
E-mail: rudolf.bauer@uni-graz.at

All correspondence concerning registration and practical matters should be addressed to:

The Organizing Secretariat

Mag. Claudia Thenius
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacognosy

Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Universitätsplatz 4
A-8010 Graz, Austria

Phone: +43-(0)316 380-5525
Fax: +43-(0)316 380-9860
E-mail: ise13@uni-graz.at

Fourth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA)

June 4th & 5th, 2012 San Francisco, California

The workshop is part of the 49th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference in the field of electronic design automation with over 10,000 attendees. This year DAC will be held June 3-7, 2012 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, California.

The Fourth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) at DAC will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities. The focus is on concepts, methodologies and software tools for the computational analysis of biological systems and the synthesis of biological systems.

Still in its early stages, the field of synthetic biology has been driven by experimental expertise; much of its success can be attributed to the skill of the researchers in specific domains of biology. There has been a concerted effort to assemble repositories of standardized components. However, creating and integrating synthetic components remains an ad hoc process. The field has now reached a stage where it calls for computer-aided design tools. The electronic design automation (EDA) community has unique expertise to contribute to this endeavor. This workshop offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding collaboration between the research communities.

Topics of interest include:

Design methodologies for synthetic biology.
Standardization of biological components.
Automated assembly techniques.
Computer-aided modeling and abstraction techniques.
Engineering methods inspired by biology.
Domain specific languages for synthetic biology.
Data exchange standards and models for synthetic biology.

Contact

General Information: info@biodesignautomation.org
Program: program@biodesignautomation.org
Publication: publication@biodesignautomation.org
Industry Liaison: industry@biodesignautomation.org
Finances: finances@biodesignautomation.org

ITBAM '12 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

Vienna (Austria) September 3 - 7, 2012

Data intensive disciplines, such as life sciences and medicine, are promoting vivid research activities in the area of databases. Modern technologies, such as high-throughput mass-spectrometry and sequencing, micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. produce enormous and continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases provide access to aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein sequences, biological pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and scientific literature. There has never been more potentially available information to study biomedical systems, ranging from single cells to complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into actionable information triggering scientific progress and supporting patient management. Major biomedical application scenarios for research in the database community include but are not limited to:

Systems biology
Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
Genome-wide association studies
Drug target discovery and personalized medicine
Neuroscience and neuroinformatics
Electronic patient records
Patient monitoring
Surgery planning and support
etc.

Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in information technology:
Administration of vast amounts of data
Integration of heterogeneous data sources
Federated and distributed databases
Data warehouses
Data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association rule mining, etc.
Decision support systems
Information and image retrieval
Signal processing and streaming databases
Privacy protection and data security
Data quality assurance
Process management and collaborative work
User interfaces and visualization
Interoperability and standardization
etc.

Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences and medicine is an inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. The path from an idea to a practical application is often long and laborious, involving intensive interactions between experts in information technology, life sciences and the medical field. ITBAM accompanies and supports this path by providing an excellent venue for the exchange of ideas, fruitful discussion, and effective interaction among interdisciplinary researchers.