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/