<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Dear colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ELIXIR Denmark is sponsoring and organising the 2nd Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference, to be held on August 25-26, 2016, in Odense, Denmark.<br class=""> <br class="">The two-day meeting provides attendees with opportunities to share and discuss their latest findings, and learn about the newest national and international developments within computational proteomics, machine learning in bioinformatics, network biology in disease, non-coding RNA bioinformatics, population genetics and evolution, and transcriptomics and transcriptional regulation.<br class=""> <br class="">The following speakers already confirmed their participation:<br class="">Anaïs Baudot, CNRS, France<br class="">Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark (DK)<br class="">Anton Petrov, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom<br class="">Bruce Shapiro, NIH/NCI, USA<br class="">Robert Young, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom<br class="">Jürgen Cox, Max Planck Society, Germany<br class="">Lennart Martens, University of Gent, Belgium<br class="">Martin Simonsen, QIAGEN, DK<br class="">Peter Løngreen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DK<br class="">Rute Fonseca, UCPH, DK<br class="">Søren Brunak, DTU, UCPH, and RegionH, DK<br class="">Jon Ison, DTU, DK<br class="">Peter Løngreen, DTU, DK<br class="">Mikkel H. Schierup, Aarhus University, DK<br class=""> <br class="">Relevant information and key deadlines:<br class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Details regarding registration and accommodation—and conference programme, still not final—may be accessed via the ELIXIR Denmark website (<a href="http://www.elixir-" class="">http://www.elixir-</a><a href="http://denmark.org/" class="">denmark.org/</a>);<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Students (incl. PhD studens), members of the programme comittee, invited key note speakers and ELIXIR Steering Group members may register free of charge, while for non-students the registration fee is 1,200.00 DKK (excl. VAT). The fee covers catering, dinner and social activities;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Please note that the registration fee is non-refundable;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Registration deadline: August 10, 2016;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• You are invited to submit an abstract for the poster sessions. All abstract submissions must be received on or before August 10, 2016;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• However, among the abstracts received on or before May 1, 2016, some will be selected for 15-minutes oral presentations;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• The winner of the best poster will be announced during the meeting closure;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• Poster board size: 95 x 240 cm;<br class=""></div> <br class=""><div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>• To ensure that you have a hotel near the event, please register and book your accommodation via the registration site by 1 May 2016, as there is a limited number of pre-booked hotels: Hotel Ansgar, City Hotel Odense, Radisson Blue HC and Hotel Windsor.<br class=""></div> <br class="">For any questions about the event, please do not hesitate to contact:<br class="">Myhanh Nguyen (<a href="mailto:myng@bio.dtu.dk" class="">myng@bio.dtu.dk</a>).<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Kind regards,<br class=""> <br class="">ELIXIR Denmark Steering Group:<br class="">Anders Krogh, Professor, UCPH, DK<br class="">Bernt Guldbrandtsen, Aarhus University (AU), DK<br class="">Jan Gorodkin, Professor, UCPH, DK <br class="">Mikkel Heide Schierup, Professor, AU, DK<br class="">Ole Nørregaard Jensen, Professor, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), DK<br class="">Søren Brunak, Professor, Head of ELIXIR Denmark, DTU, UCPH, and RegionH, DK<br class=""> <br class="">Conference Programme Committee: <br class="">Bent Petersen, Associate professor, DTU, DK<br class="">Ida Moltke, Assistant professor, UCPH, DK<br class="">Kasper Munch Terkelsen, Assistant professor, AU, DK<br class="">Kirstine Belling, Associate professor, UCPH, DK <br class="">Robin Andersson, Assistant professor, UCPH, DK<br class="">Stefan Seemann, Assistant professor, UCPH, DK <br class="">Søren Besenbacher, Postdoc, AU, DK<br class="">Veit Schwämmle, Assistant professor, SDU, DK<br class="">Vivi Gregersen, Postdoc, AU, DK<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Sponsored by:<br class=""> <br class=""></div></div><div class=""></div></body></html>