[Coral-List] 2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKS IN BIOINFORMATICS, 23-25 May, 2005, Amsterdam

[Jaap Kaandorp]

Announcement: 2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKS IN BIOINFORMATICS

23-25 May, 2005

Science Park Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands


Networks in Bioinformatics

The understanding of biological networks such as metabolic and signal transduction
pathways is crucial for understanding molecular and cellular processes in the
organism or system under study. This field is subject of lively research and
both experimental and computational approaches are used to elucidate the biological
networks.

The bioinformatics of biological networks involves a broad range of research and
approaches. Research includes the identification of regulatory elements in DNA,
genome context analysis, modeling and simulation of pathways, reconstruction of
pathways from experimental data, visualization of pathways, and the representation
of pathways in database, graphs and markup languages. To accelerate our understanding
of the (dynamics) of biological networks it is seems imperative that these efforts
are combined and subsequently have to be applied to real biological problems.

It is clear that this field of research can only advance when bioinformaticians
and experimental biologists (for example working on model organisms such as
Drosophila and organisms with a relatively simple and basal body plan such as
sponges and scleractinian corals) work closely together.

During this three day symposium we will bring together researchers from different
disciplines (biology and computational sciences) working on different aspects of
networks to exchange ideas and approaches. The first day of the symposium is scheduled
for introductory lectures.

For more program and registration details
http://isnb.amc.uva.nl/

This symposium is supported by the Amsterdam Genomics Center
(AMGC), the Dutch Foundation of Scientic Research (NWO; www.nwo.nl), the
Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC; www.nbic.nl) and SenterNovem/IOP
genomics (www.senter.nl/iopgenomics).

-- 
Dr. Jaap A. Kaandorp
Section Computational Science
Faculty of Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 5257539 / +31 20 5257463
email: jaapk at science.uva.nl
fax: +31 20 5257490
URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~jaapk/

For the 2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
NETWORKS IN BIOINFORMATICS May 23-25, 2005, Amsterdam, 
see: http://isnb.amc.uva.nl/