<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><u>5th Annual Cytoscape Public Symposium and Developers Retreat </u></b><br>Amsterdam -
Netherlands<span> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b>November 8, 2007:
Public Symposium:</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Integrative
Bioinformatics:<br><span> </span>At the cutting edge of network analysis and
biological data integration</span></i></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b>Leroy Hood</b> –Institute of Systems
Biology<br><b>Ewan Birney</b> – European Bioinformatics
Institute<br><b>Peter Sorger</b> – Harvard University<br><b>Trey Ideker</b> – University of California,
San Diego<br><b>Chris Sander</b> – Memorial-Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center<br><b>Benno Schwikowski</b> – Institute Pasteur<br><b>Andrew Hopkins</b>—Pfizer Global Research
& Development<b><br> </b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b>November 6,7 and 9,
2007: Developers retreat </b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b>Department of
Human Genetics, </b><b>Academic</b><b>
</b><b>Medical</b><b> </b><b>Center</b><br><b>University
of Amsterdam</b><b>, </b><b>Netherlands</b></p>
<p> We are pleased to announce the forthcoming 2007 Cytoscape
Symposium and Retreat to be held at the <span>Academic</span><span> </span><span>Medical</span><span> </span><span>Center</span><span>, </span><span>University of Amsterdam
</span><span>, </span><span>Netherlands</span><span> on 6-9 Nov 2007. </span>More information, updates
and registration will be available at: </p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.cytoscape.org/retreat2007" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cytoscape.org/retreat2007</a></p>
<p>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. <br></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><br>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<span> </span>and
informal, technically focused developer meetings:<br></p><ul><li><b><span style="color: navy;">Tues 6th Nov:</span></b><span style="color: navy;"> <span> </span>Cytoscape
Developer's Discussions</span></li><li><b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Wed 7th Nov:</span></b><span style="color: navy;"> <span> </span><b>Application showcase, hands-on sessions, tutorials
</b> </span></li><li><b><span style="color: navy;">Thur 8th Nov:</span></b><span style="color: navy;"> <span> </span><b><i>Public
Symposium</i></b></span></li><li><b><span style="color: navy;">Fri 9th Nov:</span></b><span style="color: navy;"> <span> </span>Development of Cytoscape
Roadmap for 2007, 2008</span></li></ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>We hope that you can join us! </p><p>The Organizing Committee, 5<sup>th </sup>Cytoscape Retreat
2007</p>
<p>Annette Adler<span> </span>-
Agilent Technologies<br>Piet Molenaar <span> </span>- Human
Genetics Department AMC<br>Guy Warner <span> </span>-
Unilever <br></p>
<p><i>Contact</i>:
<a href="mailto:cytoretreat@cytoscape.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cytoretreat@cytoscape.org</a><i> <br></i></p>
<p><i>The retreat is
supported by</i>: <br></p>
<p>Unilever (<a href="http://www.unilever.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.unilever.com</a>)<br><span>Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC) (<a href="http://www.nbic.nl/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
www.nbic.nl</a>)</span><br>Agilent (<a href="http://www.agilent.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
www.agilent.com</a>) <br></p>
<p><i>About Cytoscape:</i><br>Cytoscape (<a href="http://www.cytoscape.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.cytoscape.org</a>)
is an open source bioinformatics software platform for <b><i>visualizing</i></b> molecular
interaction networks and <b><i>integrating </i></b>these interactions with
gene expression profiles and other state data. The software architecture enables
adaptation of Cytoscape functionality to the specific needs of<span> </span>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). </p>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">PS</span>: 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.</p>