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<font face="Fira Sans"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to COVID-19 the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISMB 2020 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conference will take place 100% online using a virtual platform. Join us online for the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Computational Mass Spectrometry (CompMS)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> COSI session on </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 15, 2020</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></font><br>
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<font face="Fira Sans"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With COVID-19 disrupting the world as we know it, we know how important it is to continue the exchange of science in these trying times. Therefore, the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISMB conference</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the world's largest bioinformatics/computational biology conference, is going virtual so that you can still enjoy all of our great scientific content. We hope that you will take advantage of this situation by sharing your work with colleagues all over the world.</span></font><br>
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<font face="Fira Sans"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CompMS COSI</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> promotes the efficient, high quality analysis of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mass spectrometry</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> data through dissemination and training in existing approaches and discussion of new, innovative approaches. The CompMS initiative aims to exploit synergies between different application domains, in particular </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">proteomics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">metabolomics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></font><br>
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<font face="Fira Sans"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key dates</span></font><br>
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<font face="Fira Sans"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 16, 2020</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Abstract submission deadline</span></font><br>
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<font face="Fira Sans"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submit your abstract to ISMB to present your work to a global bioinformatics/computational biology audience. Attend the virtual CompMS session to learn about the latest algorithmic advances in mass spectrometry-based proteomics and metabolomics.</span></font><br>
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