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 _____________ _______________________________________________________ | | | | _ _ ___,| K. Anton Feenstra | | / \ / \'| | | IBIVU/Bioinformatics - Free University Amsterdam | |( | )| | | De Boelelaan 1083A - 1081 HV Amsterdam - Netherlands | | \_/ \_/ | | | Tel +31 20 59 87783 - Fax +31 20 59 87653 - Room P136 | | | Feenstra@few.vu.nl - www.few.vu.nl/~feenstra/ | |_____________|_______________________________________________________|