[Sigbioinform-l] 3rd International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics, May 29-31, Amsterdam

[Barbera van Schaik]

3rd International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics 
29, 30 and 31 may 2006 
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 
http://isnb.amc.uva.nl/ 
  
Final announcement 
  
Symposium focus: Bioinformatics of networks 
Bioinformatics of biological networks involves a range of interconnected
multidisciplinary research topics. Research areas include the quantitative
understanding of the dynamics of regulatory and metabolic networks by using
modeling and simulation techniques, the reconstruction of biological
pathways from experimental data, identification of pathway modules, the
analysis and interpretation of experimental data in the context of
biological networks, the construction and use of (public) pathway databases,
network visualization and the development and use of pathway markup
languages such as SBML and BioPax. Biological questions and new experimental
techniques as well as ongoing (bio)informatics and statistics efforts will
guide the development of the next generation of bioinformatics software
packages. The combination of computational and genomics research will
accelerate the detailed understanding of biological networks, which will
find many applications in all application domains of life sciences. 
  
Bridging the gap between disciplines 
ISNB is specifically aimed at researchers working in life sciences, which
includes disciplines like molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics,
biostatistics, informatics, computational life sciences and mathematical
biology. Since more and more researchers are focusing on biological networks
from different perspectives there is large interest in a dedicated symposium
like the ISNB. ISNB provides a platform to bring together these different
researchers in this field to exchange ideas and facilitate new national and
international collaborations. Experience from ISNB2004 and ISNB2005 learns
that there is a significant interest in this symposium. This symposium will
also contribute to merge ideas and research from scientific programs in the
field of bioinformatics, computational life sciences (e.g. simulation and
modeling) and the experimental genomics work. 
  
Scientific program and tutorial lectures 
The Third International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB 2006)
is likely to continue its success from previous years by bringing together
different disciplines to discuss ongoing research in this exciting field of
biological networks and bioinformatics. In continuation of ISNB 2005 we aim
to organize a three day meeting during which we will again schedule a mix of
tutorial lectures and scientific presentations. The scientific program
includes research and poster presentations from Dutch and international
acknowledged researchers but also from young researchers starting in the
field. The tutorial lectures provide an excellent opportunity to have well
known researchers in the field give an introduction to junior and senior
researchers and students who recently started working in related projects.
The setup of the symposium facilitates sufficient possibilities to meet and
talk to colleague researchers, which will facilitate many new and exciting
collaborations and research projects.