The 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA’10)will be held on the UCONN campus on May 23-26, 2010.  The ISBRA symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications.  The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (LNBI proceedings) is January 29, 2010; for short abstracts (oral or poster presentation) the deadline is April 2, 2010. For more details visit the symposium website at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra10/.

The poster “Bioinformatics pipeline for detection of immunogenic cancer mutations by high throughput mRNA sequencing” (ppt, poster abstract) received the best poster award at ISBRA 2009. The poster presents a bioinformatics pipeline for detecting immunogenic cancer mutations from high throughput sequencing data. Immunogenic mutations predicted from Illumina mRNA reads generated from a mouse cancer tumor cell line are currently under experimental validation in the Srivastava lab at UCHC.

The 1st Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology will be held on August 21-22, 2008 at the DIMACS Center of Rutgers University. The workshop brings together computer scientists, geneticists, and statisticians aiming to address current computational challenges in gene mapping, for details see the workshop program is available at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/ComputationalIssues/program.html. Pre-registration deadline is August 14, 2008.