Dear colleague, The 2011 International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB2011) will take place on March 21-23, 2011 in Wageningen (the Netherlands). This seventh meeting on Integrative Bioinformatics will be of interest to bioinformaticians, computer scientists and all working in, or interested in the developing area of integrative bioinformatics. There will be opportunities to present and discuss methods, theoretical approaches, and their practical applications. We invite you to register for the conference, and to send in an abstract for a presentation at the conference. Accepted abstracts will be invited for a presentation at the conference, and will also be invited to send in a full manuscript, to be published (after peer reviewing) in the IB2011 Special Issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics. The deadline for sending in an extended abstract is January 15th; submissions should not exceed 4 pages. Authors will be informed of acceptance before February 1st. There are also opportunities for presenting posters and software demonstrations at the Symposium. The deadline for sending in abstracts for posters or a software demo is February 15th, 2011. The best poster will receive an award sponsored by IMBio e.v. The conference website is open for registration and abstract submission, and can be found at www.bioinformatics.nl/ib2011/ and www.imbio.de/ib2011/. We hope to meet you in March in Wageningen. On behalf of the organizing committee, Jack Leunissen Wageningen UR IB2011 is organized by Wageningen University, the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, and IMBio e.V. == Disclaimer: We have tried our best to remove duplicate e-mail addresses from our mailing list to reduce the amount of clutter in your mailbox. It may nevertheless still happen that you receive this mail via different channels. We apologize if you receive this mail more than once.