Dear all We are organising a Special Interest Group (SIG) during ISMB 2016. We will be very happy to see you there. TransMed 2016: Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications Meeting ISMB 2016, (Orlando, USA), on July 8, 2016. Knowledge-based translational medicine is a rapidly growing discipline in biomedical research and aims to expedite the discovery of new diagnostic tools and treatments by using a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative, "bench-to-bedside" approach. Large amounts of multi-omics, imaging (medical and molecular) and clinical data can now be captured for given patient populations. In addition to the challenges of data curation and harmonisation, new computational methods are required to identify molecular signatures that suggest disease subtype. These signatures may be predictive of outcome or progression, and impact on disease management by suggesting personalised therapeutic strategies for patients. Such approaches will further the development of a new taxonomy of disease. In the TransMed SIG meeting, we will explore the current status of computational biology approaches within the field of translational medicine. Keynote Speakers Confirmed: Prof. Russ Altman, Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine and Computer Science; Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program, School of Medicine, Stanford University Prof. Sean Mooney, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington; Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) of UW Medicine Prof. John Overington, Director of Bioinformatics at Stratified Medical, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London and the Farr Institute Key dates: Abstract submissions deadline: May 27, 2016 Poster and Presentation acceptance notifications: May 31, 2016 Final program available: June 10, 2016 TransMed 2016 SIG: July 8, 2016 TransMed2016 SIG web site: http://transmedit.org/Main_Page <http://transmedit.org/Main_Page> Registration: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016-registration <https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016-registration> Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transmed2016 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transmed2016> Contact: transmed-coord@googlegroups.com <mailto:transmed-coord@googlegroups.com> Best regards, Venkata on behalf of TransMed 2016 SIG organising team -- Venkata P. Satagopam Bioinformatics Core Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) University of Luxembourg Campus Belval, House of Biomedicine II 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux T +352-466-644-6421 F +352-466-644-6949 venkata.satagopam@uni.lu <mailto:venkata.satagopam@uni.lu> http://lcsb.uni.lu <http://lcsb.uni.lu/> ----- This message is confidential and may contain privileged information. It is intended for the named recipient only. If you receive it in error please notify me and permanently delete the original message and any copies. -----