GENOME INFORMATICS
September 13 - 17, 2006
Abstract Deadline: June 21, 2006

Tim Hubbard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Suzanna Lewis, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee

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The sixth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics will be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. The meeting will begin in the evening on Wednesday, September 13, and end after lunch on Sunday, September 17, 2006.

The focus for this conference is large-scale genome informatics. Biology is an experimental science that is experiencing an explosion of new data. This requires biologists to increase the scale and sophistication in the information technology used for their research. The conference scope encompasses the management and the analysis of these data, such as whole genome comparisons within and among species and strains, the analysis of results from high throughput experiments to uncover cellular pathways and molecular interactions, and the design of effective algorithms to identify regulatory sequence motifs.

The conference brings together the leading scientists in this growing field, and we strongly encourage researchers from other large scale information handling disciplines to attend. The majority of oral presentations will be drawn from openly submitted abstracts.

Keynote Address:
Fotis Kafatos, Imperial College London

Topics:
• Epigenomics & Genetic Regulation
• Comparative & Evolutionary Genomics
• Populations, Phenotypes & Disease
• Pathways, Networks and Systems
• Images, Atlases & Reconstruction
• High Throughput Genomics

Co-Chairs:
Richard Baldock, Western General Hospital, UK
Jeffrey Boore, DoE Joint Genome Institute & UC Berkeley, USA
Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Nick Goldman, EMBL-EBI, UK
Maryann Martone, University of California, San Diego, USA
Francis Ouellette, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Alfonso Valencia, National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain
Owen White, The Institute for Genomic Research, USA

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you at Hinxton in September.

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