ISMB 2005: A showcase of the highest quality and most advanced research in computational biology
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View the detailed agenda at www.iscb.org/ismb2005/detailed.html. Click on the lists below for a link to the website with more information.

Don't miss out!

Registration is open! Discounted fees available until May 16. www.iscb.org/ismb2005/reg.html

ISCB Member discount rates:
Academic/Non-profit/Government/Postdoc - USD $350
Student - USD $225
Corporate - USD $450

Panel Discussions and Workshops (see conference detailed agenda)

New this year we will be featuring exciting special interest panels and workshops at the ISMB conference.  Watch the detailed agenda for updates and further information.  Three of the planned workshops are…

  • Bioterrorism/Biosecurity
  • Getting the Grant: Tips on writing grant applications to Federal Agencies
  • NIH Funding Initiatives and Future Directions
  • WEB05 - Education in Computational Biology

Paper Presentations
http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/papers.html

This year the paper presentations are organized into ten tracks representing the diversity of research that constitutes computational biology. This is your opportunity learn about the latest research on computational methods, their application to biological problems, and the insights gained from this work.

Program Chairs: H.V. Jagadish & Burkhard Rost

  • Databases and Ontologies
    Area Chairs: Susan Davidson and Carol Goble
  • Sequence Analysis
    Area Chair: Des Higgins
  • Text Mining
    Area Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
  • Pathways, Networks and Systems
    Area Chairs: Alfonso Valencia and Vincent Schachter
  • Evolution and Phylogeny
    Area Chairs: Olivier Gascuel and Dannie Durand
  • Proteomics
    Area Chair: Michal Linial
  • Transcriptome
    Area Chair: Martin Vingron
  • Genomes
    Area Chairs: Ying Xu and Steven Salzberg
  • Structural Bioinformatics
    Area Chairs: Nir Ben-Tal and R. Sowdhamini
  • Bioinformatics Applications
    Area Chair: Phil Bourne
Elevated Abstract Presentations

New this year: exemplary poster submissions have been selected for oral presentation.

Chairs: Steven Brenner and Limsoon Wong

  • RNA and Protein Structural Biology
    Session Chair: Michael Zuker
  • Sequence Analysis, Phylogeny and Evolution
    Session Chair: Serafim Batzoglou
  • Genomics and Gene Expression
    Session Chair: Michael Eisen
  • Pathways, Networks and Proteomics
    Session Chair: Trey Ideker
  • Ontologies and Natural Language Processing
    Session Chair: Mark Musen
  • Gene Regulation, microRNA's
    Session Chair: Chris Bu
Software Demonstrations
http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/demos.html

ISMB 2005 is the only conference to provide a venue for both academic and commercial developers to demonstrate their software tools and systems. This is your chance to see how these applications work and talk to the people who are involved in their design, development and application!

Chairs: Goran Neshich and Jeffrey de Wet

A small sampling from the full list of demonstrations:

  • Visualizing and Analyzing Biological Network Data in Cytoscape 2.1
  • Reactome - A Knowledgebase of Biological Processes
  • The Protege Suite of Tools: Accessing, Managing, and Visualizing Biomedical Ontologies
  • The myGrid/Taverna Toolkit for Workflow Based Bioinformatics
  • STING - A Web Server for Comprehensive Analysis of Protein Structure and Sequence
  • PUMA2 - a Grid Technology Based Computational Environment for High-throughput Genetic Sequence Analysis and Evolutionary Analysis of Metabolism
  • PIR: A Comprehensive Resource for Functional Analysis of Protein Sequences and Families
  • The Pathway Tools Software
  • EMBOSS
  • UCSF Chimera: Molecular Graphics for Research and Analysis
  • Apple Computer, Inc.: The Apple Workgroup Cluster
  • Apple Computer, Inc.: Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' for the Life Sciences
  • Biobase Corporation: Pathway Analysis with Curated Protein Databases
  • CSIRO: GeneRave and New Statistical Algorithms for p>n Data
  • IBM: From Biological Networks to Web Services: The Latest IBM Technologies for Querying Biological Data
  • Sun Microsystems: Discovery to Development Demos: How to Save Time, Money & Hassels With 6 Solutions
Sponsorships and Exhibit Booths still available
 Exhibit Floor plan http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/exhibitor_all.html

There are still sponsorship opportunities available and marketing opportunities for companies who serve the bioinformatics and computational biology field. From purchasing a booth space to placing your logo on an item provided for the conference delegates, to sponsoring a meal, there are many ways to meet the marketing needs.

Items still available for sponsorship:
Registration Bags
Conference t-shirts
Best paper and best poster award
Coffee Breaks

For more details regarding sponsorships, contact Stephanie Hagstrom shagstrom@iscb.org

If you have further queries, contact us with you questions: http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005/contact.html

Ewan Birney
EMBL-EBI
Howard Cash
Gene Codes
Peter Hunter
U of Auckland
Jill Mesirov
The Broad Inst - MIT
Satoru Miyano
Human Genome Ctr - U of Tokyo

Pavel Pevzner
UC San Diego
Janet Thornton
EMBL-EBI
Gunnar von Heijne
Stockholm Bioinformatics Ctr

Workshops

Getting the Grant: Tips on Writing Grants Applications to Federal Agencies
Marc Rigas

Funding Initiatives and Future Directions
Peter Lyster









Ariadne Genomics, Biobase Corporation, Biomax Informatics, BioMed Central, Biosystems, Informatics Institute, Cambridge University Press, CRC Press - Taylor & Francis, Books, Inc., CSIRO Mathematical, Information Science, DOE, Elservier MDL, GenomeWeb, LLC, ISCB, ISMB 2006, LION bioscience, Inc., NSF, Orion, Multisystems, Partek Incorporated, PubGene, Public Library of Science, RCSB Protein Data Bank, Springer, Synamatix, The MathWorks, The MIT Press, The University of Michigan Bioinformatics Program, TimeLogic, Wiley

Tutorials
Fourteen half-day Tutorial Sessions will be held June 25 with a variety of topics for all levels of computational biology. There are sessions for those just getting into the field and sessions for those more experienced in the field

Integration and Analysis of Diverse Genomic Data
Olga Troyanskaya

Optimal Design and Analysis of Microarray Experiments
Ernst Wit and John McClure

RNA: Algorithms for Structure Prediction and Gene-finders
Peter Clote

Developing and Using Special Purpose Hidden Markov Model Databases
Martin Gollery

Weighted Finite-State Transducers in Computational Biology
Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri

Semantic Aggregation, Integration and Inference of Pathway Data
Joanne Luciano and Jeremy Zucker

Attacking Performance Bottlenecks, Ruud van der Pas and Karl V. Steiner
Principles of Ontology Construction
Suzanna Lewis

Introduction to Phylogenetic Networks
Daniel Huson

Mining the Biomedical Literature: State of the Art, Challenges and Evaluation Issues
Hagit Shatkay

Gene Expression Levels as Traits in Genetic Linkage Analysis
Steffen Möller and Robert Hoffman

A Bioinformatics Introduction to Cluster Computing
Andrew Boyd, and Abhijit Bose

Computational Geometry of Protein Structure and Function
Iosif Vaisman

A Massively Parallel High Performance Computing Environment for Computational Biology
Gyan Bhanot and Bob Germain