Call for abstracts
7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB)

Amsterdam, April 22-23, 2010

The 7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics (ISNB 2010) is scheduled on 22 and 23 April 2010 and is likely to continue its success from previous years in bringing different disciplines together to discuss ongoing research in bioinformatics, systems biology and biology of networks. The focus of 7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics will be on biological networks such as metabolic networks, signal transduction pathways and genetic regulatory networks. In addition, we also aim to include topics like modeling of cells, tissues, gene regulation and biomineralisation. We also want to invite researchers working on gene networks in plants (e.g. Arabidopsis) , model organisms such as Drosophila and organisms with a relatively simple and basal body plan such as sponges and scleractinian corals. Understanding of these networks is crucial for understanding molecular and cellular processes in the organism or system under study. This field is subject of lively research and both experimental and computational approaches are used to elucidate the biological networks. The bioinformatics of biological networks involves a broad range of research and approaches. Research includes the identification of regulatory elements in DNA, developmental biology, genome context analysis, modelling and simulation of pathways, reconstruction of pathways from experimental data, visualization of pathways, and the representation of pathways in database, graphs and mark-up languages.

Areas of Interests and Contributions

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Abstracts for oral or poster presentations can be send to the ISNB program committee (P.D.Moerland@amc.uva.nl) before March 1, 2010. The programme committee will rank and select abstracts.

Your abstract should not exceed 1 page (font 11) and must include name, author, affiliation (adress+email) and summary of research.

For more information see ISNB website: http://amc-app1.amc.sara.nl/twiki/bin/view/ISNB/SymposiumISNB2010

Sponsored by the Netherlands Bioinformatics Institue (NBIC) and the Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB)