Title German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB´99) Organiser University of Bielefield, Germany and others  Date 4 to 6 October 1999 Venue Hannover, Germany  Details This conference focuses on the bioinformatics support for research in the modern molecular biosciences. The conference will present the current research in the theory and application of computational methods to genomic, sequence, and structural information. This year's GCB focuses on the following topics: Molecular and Genome Evolution, Genome Analysis, Sequence/Structure/Function Relations, Metabolic and Regulatory Networks, Gene and Target Discovery, Protein and Drug Design, and Intelligent Biological Databases. More info http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/gcb99 /

 

Title 6th Annual Biochip Technologies Conference Organiser IBC Conferences, USA Date 2 to 5 November 1999 Venue The Claremont Resort & Spa, Berkeley, CA, USA Details Completely sold out in 1997 and 1998, this new and improved event is well positioned to become the premier forum to serve the pharmaceutical and biotech community. Not only will this year's event continue to provide the most in-depth coverage and evaluation of the industry's most cutting-edge biochip developments, our extensive technical program will detail the many compelling applications of today's emerging microarray and lab chip technologies. This year's expanded agenda provides a thorough survey of the industry and will enable you to identify opportunities, assess the bottlenecks and fully understand the potential power and promise that is beginning to unfold in the biochip arena.  More info http://www.ibcusa.com/chips/

 

Title Datamining in Bioinformatics '99 : towards in silico biology Organiser European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK Date 10 to 12 November 1999 Venue Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK Details During the last few years bioinformatics has experienced new increasing data floods, both in terms of volumes and in terms of new databases and new types of data. We are now entering the post-genomic age, when in addition to complete genome sequences, we are learning about gene expression patterns and protein interactions on genomic scales. This poses new challenges, old ways of dealing with data item by item are no longer sustainable, and it is necessary to create new opportunities for finding biological knowledge in silico by data mining. Data mining is defined as exploration and analysis by automatic and semi-automatic means, of large quantities of data in order to discover meaningful patterns and rules. The conference will bring together researchers interested in bioinformatics and in data mining, with an aim of generating new ideas and insights into how to meet the challenge from the data floods in molecular biology. We will cover data mining applications to molecular sequence and structure data, to gene expression and other high thru-put data, as well as to existing knowledge buried in large bodies of biological texts. More info http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/datamining99/

 

Title 7th Conference on Small Genomes Organiser Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA  Date 13 to 17 November 1999 Venue The Doubletree Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, USA  Details This will be the seventh in a series of meetings on the sequence and function of small bacterial genomes. The conference is the continuation of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference series on Small Genomes, which originated in 1992 and was last held in Lake Arrowhead, California, in 1998. More info http://www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/microbes /genome99.html

 

Title Computational Genomics Conference III Organiser TIGR, USA Date 18 to 21 November 1999 Venue Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, MD, USA  Details The goal of this conference is to bring together practitioners of the science of computational genomics and to promote the further interaction between of the fields of computer science and molecular biology in support of genomics. The first two conferences in this series were highly successful, establishing Computational Genomics as one of the premier meetings in bioinformatics. This year's conference will once again bring together the leaders in cutting-edge areas of research.  More info http://www.tigr.org/cet/gss/cg/

 

Title Pacific Symposium for Biocomputing (PSB-2000) Organiser PSB, ISCB et al.  Date 4 to 9 January 2000 Venue Sheraton Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA  Details PSB is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualisation, modelling and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organised by leaders in the emerging areas, and targeted to provide a forum for publication and discussion of research in biocomputing's hot topics. In this way, PSB provides an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field.  More info http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/