GENOME INFORMATICS
November 1 - 5, 2007
Abstract Deadline: August 8, 2007

Organizers:
Michele Clamp, The Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
Tim Hubbard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee, UK

Ensembl User Workshop (October 30 - November 1)

past program

The seventh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics will be held at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The meeting will begin on the evening of Thursday, November 1, and finish after lunch on Monday, November 5, 2007.

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.

Topics and Session Chairs:
• Epigenomics
Robert Martienssen & Tarjei Mikkelsen

• Comparative & Evolutionary Genomics
Ross Hardison & Elliott Margulies

• Ontologies & Definitions
Michael Ashburner

• Pathogenic Microbe Genomics
Julian Parkhill & Jane Carlton

• Regulation, Pathways & Networks
Manolis Kellis & Zhiping Weng

• Images, Atlases & Reconstruction
Robert Murphy & Bob Waterston

• Assembly, Annotation & Resources
Ewan Birney & James Kent

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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 Cold Spring Harbor in November.

Please note that the meeting will be preceeded by a 2.5 day Emsembl User Workshop. There is no registration fee for the workshop but you will have to cover the cost of room and board at the Laboratory ($165/day). Please check the Ensembl web site for more details about workshop curriculum and for details on how to sign up.

This meeting is supported in part by funds provided by:
National Human Genome Research Institute

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.