Dear colleagues, We are organizing the 10th conference of the Hellenic Bioinformatics society in Heraklion, Crete, on September 6-9, 2017, on genomics & bioinformatics and the future of the field in Greece You can find more information about our conference at https://hscbio.wordpress.com/conferences-when/2017-2/ <https://hscbio.wordpress.com/conferences-when/2017-2/>. We have been able to secure a great panel of invited speakers: * Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain: Networks based approaches in epigenomics, evolution and biomedicine. * John Ioannidis, Stanford University, USA: Credibility and utility of big data * Peter Karp, SRI, USA: The Omics Dashboard for Interactive Exploration of High-Throughput Data * Lars Jensen, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark: One tagger, many uses: Simple text-mining strategies for biomedicine * Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium: Bayesian matrix factorization with side information and application to drug-target activity prediction * Hector-Garcia Martin, Joint Bioenergy Institute, USA: Mathematical modeling of -omics data for biofuel production through synthetic biology * Maria Pilar Francino, CSISP, Spain: Microbiota development in the gut of infants, children and adolescents * Periklis Papadopoulos, San Jose State Univ, USA: Space Technology and Space Biology * Rob Finn, EBI, UK: Expanding the reproducibility of analysis in EBI metagenomics * Carolin Frank, UC Merced, USA: Nitrogen fixation by the foliar conifer microbiome * Daniele Daffonchio, KAUST, SA: Soil development and rhizosphere effect in a High Arctic desert chronoseque-nce. * Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Title: A novel pipeline for high quality amplicon analysis integrated into MG-RAST * Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw, Poland: Statistical and mathematical models in computational oncology * Evangelia Petsalaki, EBI, UK: Integrative study of the role of RhoGAP/GEFs in the Rho protein signaling network * Lynn Schriml, Univ of Maryland, USA: GSC metadata standards in action: MetaSUB and ISD. * Yiota Poirazi, IMBB, Greece: Modelling dendritic and neuronal contributions to cognitive functions * Daniel Lundin, SciLifeLab, Sweden: The evolution of ribonucleotide reduction * David Ussery, University of Arkansas, USA: What is Life? Conserved Functional Domains in a Hundred Thousand Bacterial Genomes * Eleftheria Zeggini, Sanger Center, UK: Progress in understanding the genomic aetiology of osteoarthritis * Panos Roussos, Mount Sinai, NY, USA: Big Data Analysis and Genetic Liability to Common Neuropsychiatric Traits We hope you will be able to support our efforts to promote the development of the field in Greece and will make it to the meeting. Best regards, Dr. IOANNIS ILIOPOULOS UNIVERSITY OF CRETE SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES