[Socbin] ECCB Satellite Meeting on Probabilistic Modelling in Computational Biology, Sardinia -- PMCB 2008

[Lars Juhl Jensen]

Meeting announcement & Call for abstracts

    Event date:    Monday, 22 September 2008    (beginning of ECCB)
    Submission deadline:    17 August 2008
    Early registration discount:    24 August 2008
    Home:    http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/pmcb/


Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to join us at the ECCB Satellite Meeting on
Probabilistic Modelling in Computational Biology in Sardinia. The
meeting will focus on Probabilistic Methods for Dynamic System Models
and Data Integration in Computational Biology.

The extraction of an improved biological understanding from
genome-scale quantitative measurements, like microarray data, has
become a very active area of bioinformatics research. The integration
of data necessary for the intelligent exploitation of contextual
information provides a considerable challenge. As recent work
demonstrates, probabilistic approaches prove to be promising, flexible
tools in this endeavour.
The satellite meeting will explore current advances and open issues in
sessions presenting novel developments contributed by participants and
introduced by invited talks from leading researchers in the field.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
    Mark Girolami, Computing & Inferential Science, Univ. of Glasgow, U.K.
    Satoru Miyano, Human Genome Center, University of Tokyo, Japan.

This meeting follows the successful ISMB/ECCB affiliated PMCB 2007
workshop, proceedings and photos of which can be found at
http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/pmcb2007/.  (Proceedings link)

We welcome submissions of extended abstracts by 17 August 2008 for
short presentations of recent work in the field. Poster facilities are
also provided.


Looking forward to seeing you this year in Sardinia,

David Kreil & David Wild



Info & Contact:  http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/pmcb/