5th Annual Cytoscape Public Symposium and Developers Retreat
Amsterdam - Netherlands 

November 8, 2007: Public Symposium:

Integrative Bioinformatics:
 At the cutting edge of network analysis and biological data integration

Leroy Hood –Institute of Systems Biology
Ewan Birney – European Bioinformatics Institute
Peter Sorger – Harvard University
Trey Ideker – University of California, San Diego
Chris Sander – Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Benno Schwikowski – Institute Pasteur
Andrew Hopkins—Pfizer Global Research & Development
 

November 6,7 and 9, 2007: Developers retreat 

Department of Human Genetics, Academic Medical Center
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

 We are pleased to announce the forthcoming 2007 Cytoscape Symposium and Retreat to be held at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam , Netherlands on 6-9 Nov 2007. More information, updates and registration will be available at:

http://www.cytoscape.org/retreat2007

This years meeting is particularly exciting since it is the first time it will be held in Europe, specifically in the vibrant historic city of Amsterdam. 'Floating' on a web of canals, with its unique combination of old-world charm and cosmopolitan culture, Amsterdam is one of the most popular European cities for international visitors.

To reach Cytoscape's large European user base a Public Symposium will be held on November 8th for which there is a formidable list of confirmed speakers. Apart from the Symposium the retreat consists of hands-on demo's, user-training sessions  and informal, technically focused developer meetings:

• Tues 6th Nov:      Cytoscape Developer's Discussions
• Wed 7th Nov:       Application showcase, hands-on sessions, tutorials
• Thur 8th Nov:       Public Symposium
• Fri 9th Nov:          Development of Cytoscape Roadmap for 2007, 2008

The Symposium on the 8th is of general interest to both biologists and informaticians. Current and future users of Cytoscape are invited to visit the Application showcase on the 7th also. The developers days are targeted at the core developers of Cytoscape and plugins.

We hope that you can join us! 

The Organizing Committee, 5^th Cytoscape Retreat 2007

Annette Adler   - Agilent Technologies
Piet Molenaar   - Human Genetics Department AMC
Guy Warner     - Unilever

Contact: cytoretreat@cytoscape.org

The retreat is supported by:

Unilever (www.unilever.com)
Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC) ( www.nbic.nl)
Agilent ( www.agilent.com)

About Cytoscape:
Cytoscape (www.cytoscape.org) is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating these interactions with gene expression profiles and other state data. The software architecture enables adaptation of Cytoscape functionality to the specific needs of  biologists and bioinformaticians. It is jointly developed by the groups of Benno Schwikowski (Pasteur Institute, Paris), Trey Ideker (University of California San Diego), Chris Sander (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Lee Hood (Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle), Annette Adler (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA) and Bruce Conklin (Gladstone/UCSF, GenMAPP).

PS: Excuse us for cross-posting; we're trying to avoid this as much as possible. However, to reach a large audience we decided to include several relevant maillists also thereby increasing the risk that users get this mail several times.