Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 2 March 2004

PLEASE CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Call for papers: 22 June 2004, CB-SIG Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany.

Part of the Sun HPC Consortium to be held 20-22 June 2004 in Heidelberg. We would like to plan an all day meeting. Please email me with ideas, suggestions, and short abstracts of papers you would like to present AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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First International Workshop on Life Science Grid (LSGRID2004) at Kanazawa, Japan, May 31st - June 1st, 2004 in conjunction with the 18th Annual Conference of JSAI, Kanazawa, (May 31 - June 4, 2004)

http://big.gsc.riken.go.jp/big/LSGRID2004

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Bi021 (Sun, Geospiza, RTP event) materials now available

Presentations, instructional activities, and other materials are now posted at the Bio21 web site: http://www.geospiza.com/outreach/bio21

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Sun Life Science Boardroom Minutes

Check out the recent Life Science Boardroom Minutes
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Secure, Safe, Affordable Collaboration
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University Nottingham: Grid Technology Helps Reveal Protein Behavior

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Meeting Notice: SunHPC 2004, Tuning/Parallelization/MPI Workshop, 29 March - 2 April, 2004, Aachen University, Germany

SunHPC 2004
High Performance Computing
on the Sun Fire SMP-Cluster

Workshop
(Free: No Registration Fee)

March 29 - April 2, 2004
RWTH Aachen University
Center for Computing and Communication
Aachen, Germany

Part I: Tuning Serial Applications
Part II: Shared Memory Parallelization Part III: Distributed Memory Parallelizati
on using MPI

http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/hpc/sun
Dieter an Mey
E-mail: anmey@rz.rwth-aachen.de
Tel: +49 241 8024377

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Meeeting Notice: The Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference Singapore, 17-21 January 2005

The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development and novel applications of Bioinformatics. http://www.deakin.edu.au/~phoebe/APBC2005

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Course: Genome Canada: Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Saturday, June 12th to Sunday, June 20th, 2004

Topics include:

• Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (CBR)
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Help Desk
• Basic Unix skills
• Working on a network-centric Unix desktop
• BIRCH: Working with large numbers of sequences on a comprehensive bioinformatics system
• Perl scripting, BioPerl and SeqHound: Quick automation of data analysis tasks and utilization of web services
• BioMOBY: a transparent software layer that automatically finds and uses web services.
• How biological concepts are phrased in computational models and how such models can be made operational in a database
• BIND: Analyzing a gene in its biological context and retrieving lists of functionally related genes, i.e. interactors or co-regulated genes
• Retrieving datasets from public databases based on lists of functionally related genes
• Strategies to discover correlations in biological data
• High-throughput genome annotation with TimeLogic and GeneMatcher hardware
• MAGPIE : Automated genome analysis and annotation
• BLUEJAY : Genome data visualization

For more information about this workshop or to download a registration form, please go to http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca

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