[MOBY-l] Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics

[Midori Harris]

Dear Colleague,

This is a final reminder that registration is still open for the second
conference on Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics (SOFG)
Meeting, which will be held on October 23-26, 2004 in Philadelphia, PA
USA. (You may disregard the Sept. 23 deadline mentioned in the original
announcement, which appears below.)

   http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=44

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---------- Original SOFG 2 Announcement ----------

Dear Colleague,


                          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
Susanna-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.

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Midori A. Harris, Ph.D.
GO Editor
EMBL - EBI
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1223 494667
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 494468
Email: midori at ebi.ac.uk