[BiO BB] AFP / Biosapiens 2007: submission deadline extension

[Iddo Friedberg]

CALL FOR TALKS
&
CALL FOR POSTERS

(Please forward as appropriate)

THERE IS STILL TIME TO SEND IN YOUR WORK. Due to many requests, the
abstract submission deadline has been extended to May 6, 2007

The Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP SIG) and
the Biosapiens European network of excellence in genome annotation are
teaming up to hold a two-day Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting July 
19-20, 2007 alongsideISMB/ECCB 2007 in Vienna Austria.


Two page abstracts for posters or short talks will be accepted for 
consideration. Please go to:

http://2007.BioFunctionPrediction.org/node/2

to submit your abstracts.

The deluge of genomic information is challenging biologists to annotate
this data, from locating genes in the raw data through to predicting the
function from protein sequence and structure. AFP and Biosapiens share
many common goals, and this year we have decided to join forces for a
SIG that will deal with a wide scope of gene, protein, and genomic
annotations.


Talks are sought in, but not limited to:

     * Various aspects of gene and protein function prediction
           o Function prediction using sequence based methods. This
would include "classic" methods such as detection of functional motifs
and inferring function from sequence similarity.
           o Function from genomic information: prediction by genomic
location; locus comparison with other organisms; function gain and loss.
           o Phylogeny based methods
           o Function from molecular interactions
           o Function from structure
           o Function prediction using combined methods
           o "Meta-talks" discussing the limitations and horizons of
computational function prediction.
           o Assessing function prediction programs
     * Genomic annotation
           o Gene finding
           o Genome visualization
           o Collaborative annotation
           o Cooperation between experimental and computational biologists

Confirmed speakers include:

* Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

* David Jones University College, London, UK

* Rob Russell EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

* Christine Orengo, University College London, UK

* Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain

* Ewan Birney, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

* Shoshana Wodak, University of Toronto, Canada

* Russ Altman, Stanford University, USA

Organizers:

Iddo Friedberg, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, USA

Adam Godzik, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and University of
California, San Diego

Christine Orengo, University College, London


Important dates:

NEW AND FINAL DEADLINE: May 6 2007: Talk and poster abstracts due

May 21 2007: notification of acceptance

May 28, 2007: final correction for accepted abstracts due

July 19-20, 2007: AFP-Biosapiens SIG alongside ISMB/ECCB 2007 in Vienna,
Austria.


Contact us:

afp.biosap.2007 at gmail.com

For more information:

http://2007.BioFunctionPrediction.org



-- 
Iddo Friedberg, Ph.D.
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
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