*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 Ruedi Aebersold – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology *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 opening of registration for the forthcoming 2007 Cytoscape Symposium and Retreat to be held at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands on 6-9 Nov 2007. Registration is now possible 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. In addition to the Public 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 Thursday 8th November 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 to people with an interest in the development of the Cytoscape software and associated plugins. We hope that you can join us! The Organizing Committee, 5th 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.