GENOME INFORMATICS
November 2 - 5, 2011
Abstract Deadline: August 12, 2011

Organizers:
Inanc Birol, BC Cancer Agency, CANADA
Jennifer Harrow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
James Taylor, Emory University

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The eleventh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics will be held at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The meeting will begin on at 7.30pm on Wednesday, November 2, and finish with lunch on Saturday, November 5, 2011.

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 Speaker :
Evan Eichler, University of Washington

Topics & Discussion Leaders:
Population and Personal Genomics
Li Ding, Washington University School of Medicine
Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Transcriptomics, Alternative Splicing and Gene Predictions
Gunnar Raetsch, Max Planck Society, Germany
Steven Jones, BC Cancer Agency, Canada

Epigenomics and Non-Coding Genome
John Rinn, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Medical School
Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine

Databases, Data Mining, Visualization and Curation
Alex Bateman, The Sanger Centre, UK
Ting Wang, Washington University

Sequencing Pipelines and Assembly
Zemin Ning, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics
Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford University
Manolis Kellis, MIT

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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.

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.