[MOBY-l] Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics Conference (fwd)

[Midori Harris]

Dear Colleague,

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Registration Is Open for the 2nd Standards and Ontologies for Functional
Genomics Meeting to be held at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA October 23-26, 2004

The 2nd Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics (SOFG) Meeting
will be held on October 23-26, 2004 in Philadelphia, PA USA.  Information
about the SOFG meeting can be found at the SOFG site http://www.sofg.org/
or at http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=44 .

Registrations and abstracts will be accepted until Sept. 23, 2004 or until
the event has filled. Student support to attend is available. Downloadable
pdf registration form URL: http://www.jax.org/courses/2004/sfog_reg.pdf

Abstracts submitted by Sept. 10 will be considered for oral presentation
by Organizers and Session Chairs.  Abstracts submitted after Sept 10 will
be considered for poster session only. Abstract submissions will be
reproduced and included with the conference notebook material. If you wish
to submit, please follow the
http://www.jax.org/courses/2004/functional_genomics_abstract_guidelines.html
.

The conference will focus on advances in the development of standards and
ontologies to facilitate the exchange of biological information by
computers and computation analysis applications. A particular emphasis
will be on developments in ontological annotation systems for the genomics
and bioinformatics communities. Toward this end, students and established
investigators from different areas of computer science, experimental
biology, and bioinformatics will have an opportunity to share new ideas,
demonstrate new tools and applications, and identify potential
collaborations.

Topics include:
* Ontological Systems: Theory and Development
* Ontologies for Biology Systems
* Ontology Systems Development: Electronic Demonstrations
* Thesauri, Nomenclatures and the Biomedical Literature
* Standards and Protocols
* Functional Genomics Applications
* From Resource to Application

Plenary Speaker
Carole Goble, University of Manchester

Conference Organizers and Session Chairs:
Judith Blake, The Jackson Laboratory
Midori Harris, EBI-Hinxton
Win Hide, SANBI
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE
Suzanna Lewis, UC Berkeley
Helen Parkinson, EBI-Hinxton
Martin Ringwald, The Jackson Laboratory
Susanan-Assunta Sansone, EBI-Hinxton
Chris Stoeckert, UPenn

Please contact me with any questions about this meeting.

Judi Alexander Medlin
Lead Coordinator, Courses and Conferences
The Jackson Laboratory
600 Main Street
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
Phone:  207-288-6326
Fax: 207-288-6080

Please check out our web site http://www.jax.org/courses/events/current.do
for the current listing of courses and conferences at The Jackson
Laboratory.




-- 
Helen Parkinson, PhD
Curation Coordinator
Microarray Informatics Team
EBI