From lifesciencesgrid at gmail.com  Mon Nov  5 03:04:19 2007
From: lifesciencesgrid at gmail.com (Mario Cannataro)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:04:19 +0100
Subject: [BiO BB] Call for Book Chapters: Handbook of Research on
	Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences,
	Biomedicine and Healthcare
Message-ID: <45fdf0020711050004n13062ca0w7521e9a1ed2708a5@mail.gmail.com>

*** Apologize for multiple copies ***

Call for Book Chapters: Handbook of Research on Computational Grid
Technologies for Life  Sciences, Biomedicine and Healthcare.
Editor: Mario Cannataro
Publisher: Information Science Reference (IGI Global).
Chapter proposal submission deadline: November 12, 2007 (Deadline extended)
Email: cannataro at unicz.it,
URL: http://www.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/LifeSciencesGrid/

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From jeff at bioinformatics.org  Mon Nov  5 15:54:39 2007
From: jeff at bioinformatics.org (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:54:39 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] FW: LBM2007 Call for Participation
Message-ID: <472F830F.3050106@bioinformatics.org>

Subject: FW: LBM2007 Call for Participation
From: "Limsoon Wong" <wongls at comp.nus.edu.sg>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:02:23 +0800
To: <wongls at comp.nus.edu.sg>


=========================================================
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              LBM 2007 Call for Participation

 

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=========================================================

 


**********************************************************************************
     :: LBM 2007  R E G I S T R A T I O N  IS NOW  O P E N !
**********************************************************************************

 

Registration for LBM 2007 is now open.  Please go to the LBM 2007 website at
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org and register and book your accommodation.

 


=========================================================
     :: Important Dates
=========================================================

 

Hotel reservation deadline: November 15, 2007
Early registration deadline: November 15, 2007
Panel Discussion: December 7, 2007
Banquet:    December 6, 2007
Symposium:    December 6-7, 2007

 


=========================================================
     :: Table of Contents
=========================================================

 

1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore
2. Organizing Committee
3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline
4. Lists of Accepted Papers
5. Acceptance Rates
6. Invited Speeches

7. Panel Discussion

 


=========================================================
     :: 1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore
=========================================================

 


The 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM)
will be held at Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore, located near the Ministry of Education
and on 30 Biopolis Street. The symposium banquet will take place on Thursday 6
December. The participants to LBM2007 are also welcome at the banquet for the

International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW), as well as for the
conference itself, to be held on December 3-5 back-to-back with LBM 2007.

 

=========================================================
     :: 2. Organizing Committee
=========================================================

 

Steering Committee
See-Kiong Ng, I2R, Singapore
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore

 

General Chairs
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore

 

Programme Committee Chairs
Christopher J. O. Baker, I2R, Singapore
Su Jian, I2R, Singapore

 

Local Organizing Chair
Rajaraman Kanagasabai, I2R, Singapore

 

Programme Committee
Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
Vlad Bajic, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
Christian Blaschke, Bioalma, Spain
Anita Burgun, Universite de Rennes, France
Werner Ceusters, Buffalo NY, USA
Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA
Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, USA
Rebholz Dietrich, EMBL-EBI, UK
Julian Gough, University of Bristol, UK
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE, USA
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK
Satoshi Kobayashi, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Patrick Lambrix, Link?ping University, Sweden
Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Yves Lussier, University of Chicago, USA
Erik van Mulligen, Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Jinah Park, Information & Communications University, Korea
Tom Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine, USA
Jasmin Saric, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Neil Sarkar, Woods Hole, USA
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany
Donia Scott, Open University, UK
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Canada
Margaret Anne Storey, University Victoria, Canada
Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, University of Manchester, UK
Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Spain
W. John Wilbur, NIH, USA
Rene Witte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France

 

 

 

=========================================================
     :: 3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline
=========================================================

 

The deadline for conference-rate reservation in the Swissotel the Stamford has
been extended to November 15, 2007.  After this date the hotel can guarantee
neither the accommodation nor the prices.

 

For more information about the accommodation and reservations see page
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Registration.htm . Please note that the delegates
to LBM2007 can reserve their rooms by November 15, though the room reservations
form for the hotel states that it should be sent before "07 November, 2007".

 


=========================================================
     :: 4. Lists of Accepted Papers
=========================================================

 

Please see the lists of papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC
Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations and papers being accepted for short
oral presentations at: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/AcceptedPapers.htm.

 


=========================================================
     :: 5. Acceptance Rates
=========================================================

 

Here are the numbers of submissions, accepted papers and counted acceptance
rates:

 

Papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and
   for long oral presentations: 25.5% (12 out of 47)
Papers for short oral presentations: 31.4% (11 out of 35)

 


=========================================================
     :: 6. Invited Speeches
=========================================================

 

Three invited speeches will be offered at the symposium. The abstract and

the short biography of each invited speaker is available at:
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Speakers.htm.

 

Invited Speakers:
            Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
            Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, UK)
            Patrick Lambrix (Link?pings Universitet, Sweden)

 

=========================================================
     :: 7. Panel Discussion
=========================================================

 

The panel discussion will be offered on the second day of the symposium.

 

Title: Biomedical Languae and Biomedical Knowledge: Emerging Synergies
Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Panelists: Invited Speakers




From aloraine at gmail.com  Mon Nov  5 19:05:29 2007
From: aloraine at gmail.com (Ann Loraine)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:05:29 -0600
Subject: [BiO BB] state-of-art method for computing Tm for microarray probes,
	and a probe selection question
Message-ID: <83722dde0711051605i1d63868cja6390cb0275eebc2@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,

This is a question for microarray probe designers on the list.

What in your opinion is the state-of-the-art method for calculating Tm for
oligos bound to solid substrate?

A related question: if you have a 1000 bp target and need to pick some
number N of probes within that region, how would you do it?

(Assuming let's say a 66+-2oC hybe temperature.)

Very best wishes,

Ann Loraine


From landman at scalableinformatics.com  Mon Nov  5 19:12:28 2007
From: landman at scalableinformatics.com (Joe Landman)
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:12:28 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] state-of-art method for computing Tm for microarray
 probes, and a probe selection question
In-Reply-To: <83722dde0711051605i1d63868cja6390cb0275eebc2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <83722dde0711051605i1d63868cja6390cb0275eebc2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <472FB16C.4070106@scalableinformatics.com>

Ann Loraine wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This is a question for microarray probe designers on the list.
> 
> What in your opinion is the state-of-the-art method for calculating Tm for
> oligos bound to solid substrate?

Hi Ann:

   Not sure if you are aware of these folks, but VisualOMP is supposed 
to be pretty good 
(http://www.dnasoftware.com/Products/VisualOMP/index.htm ).

   I/we don't have anything to do with this company, though I know the 
people who founded it.

> 
> A related question: if you have a 1000 bp target and need to pick some
> number N of probes within that region, how would you do it?
> 
> (Assuming let's say a 66+-2oC hybe temperature.)
> 
> Very best wishes,
> 
> Ann Loraine


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Founder and CEO
Scalable Informatics LLC,
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From christoph.gille at charite.de  Tue Nov  6 07:27:58 2007
From: christoph.gille at charite.de (Dr. Christoph Gille)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:27:58 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [BiO BB] melt87
Message-ID: <55883.141.42.56.114.1194352078.squirrel@webmail.charite.de>

Hi
Has sombody got melt87 for DNA-melting profiles?
I lost my copy of the source code of melt87
and the melt87.exe that I have does not work any more
under current Windows.
Thanks

Christoph





From skhadar at gmail.com  Tue Nov  6 07:39:39 2007
From: skhadar at gmail.com (Shameer Khadar)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:09:39 +0530
Subject: [BiO BB] How to Map FlyBase IDs to its Orthologues ?
Message-ID: <b6ff81950711060439h118a8763w6972f2acf488136d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have a set of FlyBase IDs. I need to know where I can get a file/database
dump to that corresponds to  Inparanoid/Ensembl IDs.
In FlyBase Database these information is provided as LinkOut. But I couldnt
find a file that gives FlyBase ID -> Inparanoid/Ensemble (Orthologue)
information.


Thanks in advance,
-- 
K Shameer


From marchywka at hotmail.com  Tue Nov  6 08:36:43 2007
From: marchywka at hotmail.com (Mike Marchywka)
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:36:43 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] melt87
In-Reply-To: <55883.141.42.56.114.1194352078.squirrel@webmail.charite.de>
Message-ID: <BAY108-F305EB89562FA8430BE0C7EBE890@phx.gbl>

Did you have any luck with google? Several top hits give e-mail addresses
for people who made derivative works. I was also looking for
source code for RNA folding programs.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of melting programs :)




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assume I am ignoring you and try
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here. Thanks.





>From: "Dr. Christoph Gille" <christoph.gille at charite.de>
>Reply-To: "General Forum at Bioinformatics.Org" <bio_bulletin at board>
>To: BiO_Bulletin_Board at bioinformatics.org
>Subject: [BiO BB] melt87
>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:27:58 +0100 (CET)
>
>Hi
>Has sombody got melt87 for DNA-melting profiles?
>I lost my copy of the source code of melt87
>and the melt87.exe that I have does not work any more
>under current Windows.
>Thanks
>
>Christoph
>
>
>
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From jeff at bioinformatics.org  Tue Nov  6 11:02:51 2007
From: jeff at bioinformatics.org (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:02:51 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] melt87
In-Reply-To: <55883.141.42.56.114.1194352078.squirrel@webmail.charite.de>
References: <55883.141.42.56.114.1194352078.squirrel@webmail.charite.de>
Message-ID: <4730902B.2060205@bioinformatics.org>

MeltSim is an alternative, with empirical parameters by Blake and SantaLucia:

 http://www.bioinformatics.org/meltsim/

There's a Windows GUI version there and a C v


Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
> Hi
> Has sombody got melt87 for DNA-melting profiles?
> I lost my copy of the source code of melt87
> and the melt87.exe that I have does not work any more
> under current Windows.
> Thanks
> 
> Christoph

-- 
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Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org)
E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org
Phone:  +1 508 890 8600
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From jeff at bioinformatics.org  Tue Nov  6 11:10:08 2007
From: jeff at bioinformatics.org (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:10:08 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] melt87
In-Reply-To: <4730902B.2060205@bioinformatics.org>
References: <55883.141.42.56.114.1194352078.squirrel@webmail.charite.de>
	<4730902B.2060205@bioinformatics.org>
Message-ID: <473091E0.8020400@bioinformatics.org>

Sorry, that didn't get sent out right.  Here's the whole message:

---------
MeltSim is an alternative, with empirical parameters by Blake and SantaLucia:

 http://www.bioinformatics.org/meltsim/

There's a Windows GUI version there and a C/CLI version with newer paramters in SVN:

 http://www.bioinformatics.org/websvn/listing.php?repname=meltsim&path=%2F&sc=0

Cheers,
Jeff


J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
> MeltSim is an alternative, with empirical parameters by Blake and SantaLucia:
> 
>  http://www.bioinformatics.org/meltsim/
> 
> There's a Windows GUI version there and a C v
> 
> 
> Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
>> Hi
>> Has sombody got melt87 for DNA-melting profiles?
>> I lost my copy of the source code of melt87
>> and the melt87.exe that I have does not work any more
>> under current Windows.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Christoph
> 

-- 
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Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org)
E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org
Phone:  +1 508 890 8600
--



From marchywka at hotmail.com  Thu Nov  8 08:18:42 2007
From: marchywka at hotmail.com (Mike Marchywka)
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:18:42 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] anyone familiar with flybase or scaffolding nomenclature?
In-Reply-To: <473091E0.8020400@bioinformatics.org>
Message-ID: <BAY108-F240A78B615EFAFFF920BA4BE8B0@phx.gbl>


Hi,
I read this

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2007/nhgri-07.htm

and thought it may be interesting to go get 12 assembled small genomes to
search for various polymoprhisms and test some code. I downloaded the
fasta files from flybase and hunted around their site for a while
but I couldn't figure out what the scaffold names mean or
if there is a set of assembled genomes somewhere. Anyone
have a link to relevant tutorial info? For that matter, can anyone suggest
another set of closely related organisms ( breeds within species
or cultivars among plants, I'm quite open to ideas) with small genomes
for testing?

Thanks.



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From jayananth at gmail.com  Tue Nov 20 04:48:06 2007
From: jayananth at gmail.com (jay ananth)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:18:06 +0530
Subject: [BiO BB] hi help me pls
In-Reply-To: <6dd7f9b90711192209x3a0291b6s75b326cad2345fdd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6dd7f9b90711192209x3a0291b6s75b326cad2345fdd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9c9e3ba10711200148m3d1b2368v2f698dcf45cb38e7@mail.gmail.com>

I need one help from u...

search for best tools for the following :
1.Secondary Structure prediction in RNA
2.Protein Secondary Structure Prediction.
3.Prediction of disordered regions in proteins..
4.Case Std on Structure-function relationships in proteins
5.Prediction of transmembrane regions in proteins
6.Characterization of antigenecity in polypeptides- epitope mapping



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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,
Coimbatore-641003.
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From frcerqueira at gmail.com  Wed Nov 21 05:28:58 2007
From: frcerqueira at gmail.com (Fabio Cerqueira)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:28:58 +0100
Subject: [BiO BB] ms/ms spectra library
Message-ID: <50fceb2c0711210228l48447eceycf1408a919136999@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

does anyone know some good repository of ms/ms spectra with
respective curated aa sequences? I need it for my PhD research.

Thanks a lot,

     . Fabio - UMIT, Austria .



From golharam at umdnj.edu  Fri Nov 23 16:57:51 2007
From: golharam at umdnj.edu (Ryan Golhar)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:57:51 -0500
Subject: [BiO BB] ClustalW/X 2.0
Message-ID: <47474CDF.1070801@umdnj.edu>

We've created a new RPM for ClustalW/ClustalX v2.0.  The RPM is 
available from http://informatics.umdnj.edu/BioRPMs

Ryan


-----------
Ryan Golhar
Informatics Institute at UMDNJ




From kanzure at gmail.com  Fri Nov 23 09:47:35 2007
From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:47:35 -0600
Subject: [BiO BB] Fwd: [mea-users] Genes to Cognition database release
Message-ID: <200711230847.35248.kanzure@gmail.com>

---------- ?Forwarded Message ?----------

Subject: [mea-users] Genes to Cognition database release
Date: Friday 23 November 2007 04:28
From: Maksym Kopanitsa <mvk at sanger.ac.uk>
To: mea-users at yahoogroups.com

Dear MEA users community,

I would like to draw your attention to the first release of the Genes
?to Cognition database at http://www.genes2cognition.org/db/

I believe many of you could find it a useful resource integrating slice
plasticity as well as behavioural data from many transgenic mouse
strains.

Please note that the database uses MGI gene names (e.g. "Dlg4" rather
than "psd95"), so keep this in mind when browsing.

Below is the short introduction from the web-site.

---------------------------

G2Cdb is an integrated database of neuroscience research focused on
molecular mechanisms and diseases of cognition. It captures the
experimental data output of the WT-funded Genes to Cognition Programme
(G2C), systematic curation of the published literature, and data
submitted directly to G2Cdb by investigators worldwide.

It focuses on the phenotyping of knockout mouse models using
?behavioural tests and electrophysiological analysis of synaptic
?function, in order to elucidate the role of genes potentially involved
?in cognition. It also includes data obtained from complementary
?studies of human gene sequence variation, from genotyping patients
?with psychiatric disorders (by G2C) and from the published human gene
?mutation literature.

-----------------------------
Many thanks for your attention,
Maksym Kopanitsa
--
?The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research =

?Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a
?compa=
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From Stan.Gaj at BIGCAT.unimaas.nl  Wed Nov 28 09:12:08 2007
From: Stan.Gaj at BIGCAT.unimaas.nl (Gaj Stan (BIGCAT))
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:12:08 +0100
Subject: [BiO BB] Extracting GeneNames from a GO class and their syblings
Message-ID: <1C6586068DF1054DA3899159C38B32C9245FD3@um-mail0136.unimaas.nl>

Dear all,

 

My question today concerns GeneOntology annotation extraction. Is it
possible to extract a list of genes which belong to a specific
GO-process and it's children?

 

Or, to put it in a more clearer context:

 

- I'm interested in all genes belonging to the Lipid Metabolic process
category (GO:0006629 : lipid metabolic process
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0006629&session_id=4045b1196258143&sho
w_associations=list>  ).

- I aim to have a list of ALL genes that belong to this GO category or
below, up untill the smallest, most specific node (i.e. cellular lipid
metabolic process
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0044255&session_id=4045b1196258143&sho
w_associations=list>   -> cellular lipid catabolic process
<http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/go.cgi?view=details&search_
constraint=terms&depth=0&query=GO:0044242&session_id=4045b1196258143&sho
w_associations=list>   --> etc)

- This list can afterwards be filtered for duplicate names / IDs using
Perl or something similar (can do that part myself (-; )

- In the end, I would like to have a list that consists of gene names or
any other usable ID(i.e. like EnsEMBL, UniProt, EntrezGene, ...) which
are classfied as having a Lipid Metabolic activity!

 

Is there a specific GO-Tool available (or am I unaware that this is even
possible in GO itself) that can do this? If the solution presents itself
by using R and specific GO-libraries, then I'm eager to hear about it as
well (-: (since I know it is possible to extract both parent and
children nodes, but am unaware on how to do this for gene names/IDs).

 

Best wishes and thanks in advance,

 

  -- Stan Gaj



From me.lixue at gmail.com  Wed Nov 28 21:34:25 2007
From: me.lixue at gmail.com (Xue Li)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:34:25 -0600
Subject: [BiO BB] please recommend the most popular and reliable packages in
	R for microarray analysis
Message-ID: <62ed16460711281834l5029b8d3r41287bcb06e87ae2@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

I heard that R+ Bioconductor is the most popular software to analyze
microarray data. Would you please  recommend me some popular packages in
Bioconductor and R.

How can I know whether a specific package is reliable or not?

Thanks.

-- 
Xue, Li
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program @ ISU
Ames, IA 50010
515-450-7183


From clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de  Thu Nov 29 08:52:07 2007
From: clu at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Carsten Lutz)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:52:07 +0100
Subject: [BiO BB] KR08 Doctoral Consortium, Call for Applications
Message-ID: <E1IxjoF-0007Or-8D@frege>

                    
                    KR2008 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM	
		       Call for Application

                     September 16 - 19, 2008
                        Sydney, Australia


The 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR2008) invites PhD students to apply
for the Doctoral Consortium program. The aims of the consortium are:

- to provide a forum for students to present their current research, 
  and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; 

- to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; 

- to support students with information and advice on academic,
  research and industrial careers;

The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces
students to senior researchers with similar interests. Students
accepted into the Doctoral Consortium are waived registration fee for
KR2008 and present their work during a poster session. They can
apply for a scholarship that partly covers their travel expenses.

We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any 
topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Applications 
must be submitted via our online submission site (see below).
Each application must contain the following materials:

- Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, the
  motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the
  progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to
  be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in the usual
  KR double-column style.

- Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states
  that (s)he supports your participation in the DC. 


IMPORTANT DATES

May 1, 2008            Deadline for application
May 25, 2008           Acceptance notification
September 16-19, 2008  Doctoral consortium

Application Submission

The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary
and letter of recommendation into a single PDF or postscript document.
If you cannot do that, archive the two documents into a single zip
file. In either case, the resulting single file has to be submitted
via the EasyChair system at

  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr08dc

For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chair: 

Carsten Lutz
TU Dresden, Germany
lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de