[BBC] Symposium 'Comparing Building Blocks' at VU, Amsterdam

[Anton Feenstra]

Dear bioinformaticians,


On the occasion of Walter Pirovano defending his thesis "Comparing
building blocks of life - Sequence alignment and evaluation of predicted
structural and functional features" at the VU University ('Vrije 
Universiteit'), Amsterdam, the IBIVU Centre for Integrative 
Bioinformatics will organise a symposium:

* Date and Venue
Date: 	Friday 15 January, 2010
Time: 	9.00-12.00
Location: 	VU University
		De Boelelaan 1083A - 1081HV Amsterdam
		W&N building room C121

* Programme
09.00	Coffee & Tea
09.15	Opening & Introduction

09.30	- Des Higgins 	University College Dublin
	Fast scalable clustering of huge numbers of sequences
	(for making guide trees)

10.00	- Willy Taylor 	William Taylor, NIMR, London
	What to do with poor alignments and
	bad secondary structure predictions?

10.30	Coffee Break

10.45	- Jack Leunissen 	Wageningen University
	Perspective of orthology

11.15	- Roland Siezen 	CMBI, Nijmegen
	Prediction and comparison of extracellular
	proteins of bacteria

11.45	Closing remarks

13.45	Thesis defense (viva) Walter Pirovano

See also the online announcement on
http://www.ibi.vu.nl/symposium/comparing_building_blocks_of_life.php
and attached poster.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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|  _   _  ___,| K. Anton Feenstra                                     |
| / \ / \'| | | IBIVU/Bioinformatics - Free University  Amsterdam     |
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