<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear colleagues,<br class=""><br class="">We are organizing the 10th conference of the Hellenic Bioinformatics<br class="">society in Heraklion, Crete, on September 6-9, 2017, on genomics &<br class="">bioinformatics and the future of the field in Greece<br class=""><br class="">You can find more information about our conference at<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://hscbio.wordpress.com/conferences-when/2017-2/" class="">https://hscbio.wordpress.com/conferences-when/2017-2/</a>.<br class=""><br class="">We have been able to secure a great panel of invited speakers:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">* Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain: Networks based approaches in epigenomics, evolution and biomedicine.</div><div class="">* John Ioannidis, Stanford University, USA: Credibility and utility of big data </div><div class="">* Peter Karp, SRI, USA: The Omics Dashboard for Interactive Exploration of High-Throughput Data</div><div class="">* Lars Jensen, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark: One tagger, many uses: Simple text-mining strategies for biomedicine</div><div class="">* Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium: Bayesian matrix factorization with side information and application to drug-target activity prediction</div><div class="">* Hector-Garcia Martin, Joint Bioenergy Institute, USA: Mathematical modeling of -omics data for biofuel production through synthetic biology</div><div class="">* Maria Pilar Francino, CSISP, Spain: Microbiota development in the gut of infants, children and adolescents</div><div class="">* Periklis Papadopoulos, San Jose State Univ, USA: Space Technology and Space Biology</div><div class="">* Rob Finn, EBI, UK: Expanding the reproducibility of analysis in EBI metagenomics</div><div class="">* Carolin Frank, UC Merced, USA: Nitrogen fixation by the foliar conifer microbiome</div><div class="">* Daniele Daffonchio, KAUST, SA: Soil development and rhizosphere effect in a High Arctic desert chronoseque-nce.</div><div class="">* Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Title: A novel pipeline for high quality amplicon analysis integrated into MG-RAST</div><div class="">* Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw, Poland: Statistical and mathematical models in computational oncology</div><div class="">* Evangelia Petsalaki, EBI, UK: Integrative study of the role of RhoGAP/GEFs in the Rho protein signaling network</div><div class="">* Lynn Schriml, Univ of Maryland, USA: GSC metadata standards in action: MetaSUB and ISD.</div><div class="">* Yiota Poirazi, IMBB, Greece: Modelling dendritic and neuronal contributions to cognitive functions</div><div class="">* Daniel Lundin, SciLifeLab, Sweden: The evolution of ribonucleotide reduction</div><div class="">* David Ussery, University of Arkansas, USA: What is Life? Conserved Functional Domains in a Hundred Thousand Bacterial Genomes</div><div class="">* Eleftheria Zeggini, Sanger Center, UK: Progress in understanding the genomic aetiology of osteoarthritis</div><div class="">* Panos Roussos, Mount Sinai, NY, USA: Big Data Analysis and Genetic Liability to Common Neuropsychiatric Traits</div><br class="">We hope you will be able to support our efforts to promote the<br class="">development of the field in Greece and will make it to the meeting.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class="">Dr. IOANNIS ILIOPOULOS<br class=""><br class="">UNIVERSITY OF CRETE<br class="">SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES<br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>