QSAR - Canadian Bioinformatics Help Desk Newsletter -- December 2, 2004

Bioinformatics Training

CBRi Bioinformatics Tools in Drug Discovery Workshop Dr. David Wishart will be teaching a Bioinformatics Tools in Drug Discovery workshop on December 9-10, at the CBRi Facility on the BCIT-Burnaby Campus, in Burnaby, British Columbia. This hands-on workshop will introduce students to the principles and practices of bioinformatics in drug discovery. For further details, please see the workshop flyer: http://gchelpdesk.ualberta.ca/vitesse/BioinfoToolsDec04.php.

Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop - The Bioinformatics Workshop will take place on February 14-26, 2005, in Vancouver, British Columbia (application deadline: December 13, 2004). The workshop flyer is available here as a pdf. For other upcoming workshops, please visit http://www.bioinformatics.ca/workshops.php. Lecture notes for all four workshops (Bioinformatics, Developing the Tools, Proteomics, and Genomics) are freely available at http://www.bioinformatics.ca/workshops.php under a Creative Commons License.

Computational and Statistical Aspects of Microarray Analysis (Third Edition) - This five day course will be held on June 19-25, 2005, in Bressanone-Brixen, Italy and will focus on microarray experiments, covering statistical topics such as preprocessing, normalization, quality assessment, gene identification, machine learning and inference for graphs and networks. Applications of these methods to proteomics and other high throughput technologies will also be covered. Participants should have some minimal background in biological, statistical and computational aspects of microarrays, or other high-throughput data. Participants interested in hands-on, interactive activities should consider signing up for the lecture and laboratory series (space is very limited). These require a basic knowledge of the R or S language. An introductory R course will be given. The maximum number of participants is 100 for the morning lectures and 30 for the laboratory sessions. For further details, please visit the course website: http://www.economia.unimi.it/marray/2005/

M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programs in Bioinformatics at the Université de Montréal - The Université de Montréal is offering graduate degrees (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in Bioinformatics. For further details, please visit the M.Sc. or Ph.D. program web pages.

Training Program in Bioinformatics for Health Research - A bioinformatics training program, leading to a post-graduate diploma, M.Sc., or Ph.D., is offered through a partnership between the BC Cancer Agency, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. For more information, visit http://bioinformatics.bcgsc.ca.

Spring 2005 BioneQ Workshop - The Quebec Bioinformatics Network will be offering one workshop in the Spring 2005 in Montreal: Bioethics in Bioinformatics. For more information on previous workshops offered by BioneQ, please visit the BioneQ home page at http://bioneq.qc.ca/.

Bioinformatics Meetings

	ISCB-Sponsored Conferences - There are many bioinformatics and computational biology related conferences that are sponsored by The International Society for Computational Biology. For a listing of ISCB-sponsored conferences, please visit http://www.iscb.org/events/event_board.php
10-12 Dec 2004	Rocky '04 - The second annual Rocky Mountain Regional Bioinformatics Conference will be held in Aspen, Colorado on December 10-12, 2004. For further details, please visit http://www.iscb.org/events/event_data.php?200
16-19 Dec 2004	International Conference on Bioinformatics and its Applications (ICBA '04) - This conference will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 16-19, 2004. The main focus of this conference will be "major developments, problems, and trends and applications in Bioinformatics." For more information, please visit http://www.iscb.org/events/event_data.php?144
4-8 Jan 2005	Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2005 - This ISCB-sponsored event will be held on the Kohala Coast on the Island of Hawaii on January 4-8, 2005. According to the ISCB announcement, this conference will feature presentations on "databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology." For further details, please visit http://www.iscb.org/events/event_data.php?183
10-13 Jan 2005	CHI's Pep Talk - "The Protein Information Week" will take place in San Diego, California, on January 10-13, 2005. "Proteomics in a Six-Pack" includes proteomics conferences on: Protein Arrays, Protein Expression, Protein Folding Disorders, Protein Process Development, Human Proteome, and Protein Therapeutics. For further details, please visit http://www.chi-peptalk.com/.