EMBnet Conference 2008

The EMBnet Conference 2008 will be held on September 18-20, 2008, in Park Hotel San Michele, Martina Franca, Taranto, Italy.

EMBnet (European Molecular Biology Network: http://www.embnet.org) is a world-wide network that was born in 1988 as association of Bioinformatics service centres in Europe. Since 1988 EMBnet has been growing enormously by creating communities that share knowledge and resources by various means, extending nowadays to over 45 countries and reaching thousands of users.

This year EMBnet celebrates its 20th anniversary, and to celebrate this special event we are organizing an international conference on the general theme: Leading applications and technologies in Bioinformatics

Our main goal is to present emerging trends that are likely to shape the future of Bioinformatics. We will have 4 half-day sessions on:
  1) ’Omics’, comparative studies and evolution;
  2) Advanced bioinformatics technologies and applications;
  3) Bioinformatics for biodiversity;
  4) Training and e-Learning in Bioinformatics.

This Conference will provide an occasion of scientific exchange among Bioinformaticians and Life Sciences users from all over the world, including many of our old friends who contributed EMBnet’s success in the past 20 years.

Topics covered are as wide as possible reflecting the transversal scientific interests of the network. We invite you to submit abstracts in:
  Genomics
  Transcriptomics
  Proteomics
  Molecular structure prediction, modelling and dynamic
  System Biology
  Biobanks (databases and knowledgebases)
  Next generation sequencing: applications and case studies
  Text and data mining
  Biological data integration
  Ontologies
  Grid technologies and Web Services
  Molecular biodiversity and DNA barcode
  Metagenomics
  Training and e-Learning

This conference will foster, as much as possible, new interactions and collaboration among the Bioinformatics community and life scientists on common research goals. To achieve this aim, the Organizing Committee has planned a few round table discussions on challenging research topics.

Deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2008