<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>November 8, 2007:
Public Symposium:</b></div>
<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>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ruedi Aebersold</span> – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology<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 opening of registration for 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>Registration is now possible 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. In addition to the Public 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 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.</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>