Re: [Fwd: ISMB 2008 Call for Special Session Proposals + More ISCB Conference News]

There has been a SIG on bioOntologies for the last ten years. If you  
are planning on doing anything, then perhaps you should contact those  
folk first.


On Sep 20, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote:

> my 0.001 cents,
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> If you look at the other sessions, there's nothing so  
> technologically oriented. And there's already a session on ontologies.
> Maybe a SIG ?  (that by the way seem to be more interesting) with a  
> focus on data intergation in life sciences ? (just to give a  
> traslational touch).
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> Andrea
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> Il giorno 20/set/07, alle ore 17:12, Paolo Romano ha scritto:
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>> At 16:50 20/09/2007, Eric Jain wrote:
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>>> Paolo Romano wrote:
>>>> as I see it, ISMB is always being preferring Science, instead of  
>>>> Technology.
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>>> In principal, perhaps, but "technology" stuff seems to attract  
>>> plenty of attention (maybe not as main talks, but as SIGs, BOFs,  
>>> posters and demos, plus of course there are all the technology  
>>> vendors with their booths)...
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>> we are speaking about a Special Session.
>> From the Charter:
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>>>> Special Sessions have the purpose of introducing the ISMB  
>>>> community to relevant and "hot" scientific topics that are  
>>>> typically not within the focus of an ISMB meeting, and  
>>>> highlighting the impact of computational biology and  
>>>> bioinformatics within these emerging topics.
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>> Paolo
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>> Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it)
>> Bioinformatics
>> National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
>> Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy
>> Tel: +39-010-5737-288  Fax: +39-010-5737-295
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Received on Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:39:23 UTC