<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="elementToProof">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">— ISMB/ECCB 2023 CompMS – Abstract submission deadline (April 20, 2023) —</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:624px;height:351px"><img style="margin-top:0px" class="ContentPasted0" width="624" height="351" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/suRJkgolNypaKoTlcOj6dOHEG4VxsBk9gPLJaiXlywogihn6eYxYBHSokcFGOt9hPyn_2ezF116A4I2JauXtTrYA59In_qI6ZaIKyAd_nqi6MjowOcLDudqWGJSA3hYahjwx61Fckwc-rFsZ"></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Dear colleague,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">We would like to remind you that the abstract submission deadline for the
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Computational Mass Spectrometry (CompMS)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0"> session
at the ISMB/ECCB 2023 conference is </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">April 20, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">.
We encourage you to submit your abstract today and join us during the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">ISMB/ECCB 2023
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">conference in Lyon, France or virtually on
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">July 23–27, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Combining the annual
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0"> and
the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">,
this is the world's largest bioinformatics/computational biology conference. Every year it brings together scientists from computer science, molecular biology, mathematics, statistics, and related fields and provides an intense multidisciplinary forum for
disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics/computational biology. The conference fosters fresh dialogues, collaboration and learning opportunities, and is a gathering which shapes the future of the field.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">At the heart of the scientific program are ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), enabling community involvement and bolstering
ISMB’s reputation as the leading conference in the field. The </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">CompMS COSI</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0"> promotes
the efficient, high-quality analysis of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">mass spectrometry</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0"> data
through dissemination and training in existing approaches and discussion of new, innovative approaches. The CompMS initiative aims to exploit synergies between different mass spectrometry-based application domains, in particular
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">proteomics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">,
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">metabolomics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">,
and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">lipidomics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Date</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
July 27, 2023 (CompMS COSI) / July 23–27, 2023 (ISMB/ECCB)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Venue</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
Centre de Congrčs de Lyon, Lyon, France / virtual</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Website</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
</span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023" style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Key dates</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">April 20, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
Abstract submission deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">May 11, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
Talk/poster acceptance notifications</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">May 18, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
Late poster submission deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">May 25, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
Late poster acceptance notifications</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">July 23–27, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
ISMB/ECCB conference</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Keynote speakers</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">We are excited to announce that the CompMS session will feature keynote presentations from the following leaders in the computational mass
spectrometry field:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px">
<li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Dr. Laura Goracci, University of Perugia, Italy</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Dr. Tomáš Pluskal, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0">Dr. Bernhard Renard, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany</span></p>
</li></ul>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Abstract submission deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">The abstract submission deadline for ISMB/ECCB 2023 is fast approaching!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Submit your abstract to ISMB/ECCB to present your work at the leading bioinformatics/computational biology conference. Attend the CompMS
session to learn about the latest algorithmic advances in computational mass spectrometry.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Please remember to select the CompMS COSI as your session of interest upon submitting your abstract.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">Call for abstracts</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">:
</span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-submissions/abstracts" style="text-decoration:none" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-submissions/abstracts</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">We look forward to seeing you at ISMB/ECCB!</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0">The CompMS organizing committee.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(53, 55, 68);" class="ContentPasted0"> Wout Bittremieux</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(53, 55, 68);" class="ContentPasted0"> Isabell Bludau</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(53, 55, 68);" class="ContentPasted0"> Lindsay Pino</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(53, 55, 68);"><br class="ContentPasted0">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(53, 55, 68);" class="ContentPasted0"> Timo Sachsenberg</span></p>
<br class="ContentPasted0">
<br class="ContentPasted0">
<br>
</div>
</body>
</html>