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Meetings and Events
This section lists some of the most worthwhile events in the bioinformatics and related fields. Of course this is just an editor's choice, and lists only a couple of them. For a more up-to-date and extensive list of events point your browser to the BioInformer Event Service.
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The Eleventh International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modelling and Scientific Computing |
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International Association for Mathematical and Computer Modelling |
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31 March - 3 April 1997 |
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Georgetown University Conference Center Washington, DC, USA |
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An interdisciplinary integrative forum on modelling, simulation and scientific computing in engineering, physical, chemical, biological, medical, environmental, social, economic and other systems using applied mathematics and computational sciences and technology. |
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http://dmtwww.epfl.ch/ims/microsim/MCMSC/ |
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Infection Genomics |
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Cambridge Healthtech Institute, UK |
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1 - 2 April 1997 |
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Loews Coronado Bay Resort, Coronado, California |
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A two day meeting on the impact that gene sequencing and gene identification have on the field of infectious disease. |
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More info |
http://custwww.xensei.com/conferences/conferences.html |
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MGMS '97 -- Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery |
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Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society |
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2 - 4 April 1997 |
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University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
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A two and a half day meeting covering the use of bioinformatics in all aspects of drug discovery from the application of genomics for rational target identification to structure-function prediction. |
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http://mbisg2.sbc.man.ac.uk/hssp/mgms.html |
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The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-97) |
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EMBL-EBI, UK & various others |
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21 - 25 June 1997 |
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Meliton Hotel, Porto Carras Resort, Sithonia, Halkidiki, Greece. |
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Focusing on every aspect of Computational Biology, with this year special attention given to automatic annotation of genome sequence data |
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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ismb97/ |
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10th Annual Genome Mapping and Sequencingmeeting |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, US |
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14 - 18 May 1997 |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, US |
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This meeting will feature sessions on human genome sequencing, biological insights from multi-organismal genomics, human genetics and biology, computational genomics, genome methodologies, gene discovery and transcript mapping, and comparative mapping and sequencing. In addition, interactive demonstrations of genomic computational tools and databases will again form part of the program. |
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More info |
http://clio.cshl.org/meetings/97genome.htm |
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6th Annual Bioinformatics and Genome Research Conference |
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Cambridge Healthtech Institute |
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11 - 12 June 1997 |
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The Fairmonth Hotel, San Fransisco, California, |
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Covers software and database issues including the use of algorithms, programs for linking different types of databases, and database integration. The interpretation of sequence data using bioinformatics includes the capacity to relate gene sequence to the structure of encoded proteins and ultimately to possible functionality of these gene products. |
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More info |
http://custwww.xensei.com/conferences/conferences.html |
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First Annual Conference on Computational Genomics |
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TIGR Science Education Foundation, Inc., US |
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1 - 4 November 1997 |
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Hyatt Dulles, Herndon, Virginia |
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This conference is intended to bring together practitioners of the new science of computational genomics, and to promote the further cross-fertilisation of the fields of computer science and molecular biology in aid of genomics. Particular attention will be paid to large-scale genomic sequencing projects, high-throughput cDNA-based efforts, and microbial genomes. |
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More info |
http://www.tigr.org/tsef/cg/ |
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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-98) |
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Stanford University, UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory and various others. |
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5 - 8 January 1998 |
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Ritz Carlton Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii |
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The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-98) is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. |
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More info |
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/ |
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