[Bioclusters] BGRS'2004

BGRS'2004 Organizing Committee bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:17:54 +0600 (NOVT)


Dear colleagues,

Program and Organizing Committees have honor to announce=20
the traditional biennial event - The Fourth International=20
Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and=20
Structure (BGRS'2004) - to be held on=20
July 25-30, 2004, in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia.=20
http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/meeting/bgrs2004/

BGRS'2004 is a multidisciplinary conference, and we are=20
pleased to invite scientists with an interest in=20
bioinformatics, mathematical, theoretical, or computational=20
biology to attend the meeting.

BGRS'2004 topics of interest include:=20

- COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
Large-scale genome analysis and comparison; genome=20
functional annotation, gene finding and prediction; genome=20
knowledge bases and ontologies

- COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS
RNA and protein structure and function analysis,=20
classification of folds and structural motifs in proteins;=20
proteome analysis

- COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM BIOLOGY
Gene networks, regulatory networks, signal transduction=20
pathways, metabolic and gene expression pathways
virtual cell; systems biology and biotechnology, epigenetics;

- COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Genetic variation (SNPs, haplotypes); genome rearrangements;=20
genome polymorphism; molecular evolution

- METHODS TO ANALYZE AND SIMULATE BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS=20
AND PROCESSES
gene expression array; data warehousing, knowledge discovery,=20
data mining, and machine learning in genomics and proteomics;=20
high performance computing; database integration

- BIOINFORMATICS AND EDUCATION

The BGRS'2004 program will be composed of plenary lectures,=20
oral reports, poster sessions, computer and software demonstrations,
round tables discussions, and tutorials: tutorial on supercomputer =
applications in bioinformatics and workshop on stem cell research.=20

International Program Committee is co-chaired by=20
Prof Nikolay Kolchanov (Institute of Cytology and Genetics,
Novosibirsk, Russia) and=20
Prof Ralf Hofestaedt (University of Bielefeld, Germany).=20
Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Prof Dagmara Furman
(Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia).

IMPORTANT DATES:
March 30, 2004: Four-page abstracts due=20
May 01, 2004: Acceptance/rejection notifications sent out=20
and the abstracts are included into the program=20

If you intend to attend the BGRS'2004, please register at the=20
official site of the Conference=20
http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/meeting/bgrs2004/.

Sorry for multiple posting,

Yury Orlov
Organizing Committee

Institute of Cytology and Genetics,
Novosibirsk, Russia
http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/
http://wwwmgs.bionet.nsc.ru/