---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Iddo Friedberg <idoerg@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:27 AM Subject: Automated Function Prediction: and ISMB Special Interest Group Meeting To: ISB@listserv.it.northwestern.edu Locale: Long Beach, California USA Date: July 14, 2012 (Just before ISMB 2012) URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org Important dates: April 25, 2012: Deadline for submitting abstracts. (extended!) May 9, 2011: Notifications for accepted abstracts e-mailed to corresponding authors May 16, 2011: Deadline for presenters to confirm acceptance of invitation to speak. July 14, 2011: AFP SIG preceding ISMB 2012 An ISMB Special Interest Group Meeting Automated Protein Function Prediction Sequence and structure genomics have generated a wealth of data, but extracting meaningful information from genomic information is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge. Both the number and the diversity of discovered sequences are increasing, while the fraction of genes whose function is known is decreasing.In addition, there is a need for annotation which is standardized so that it could be incorporated into function annotation on a large scale. Finally, there is a need to assess the quality of the function prediction software which is out there. For these reasons and many more, automated protein function prediction is rapidly gaining interest among computational biologists in academia and industry. The AFP SIG has been part of ISMB since 2005. We call upon all researchers involved in gene and protein function prediction to submit an abstract to the AFP meeting. Authors of select abstracts will be invited to give a talk and/or present a poster. This year, AFP is delighted to have Jonathan Eisen from the University of California, Davis as its keynote speaker. Prof. Eisen is a pioneer in the field of function prediction.

From his lab page: http://bobcat.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

"Dr. Eisen has published more than 200 scientific papers and is a co-author of a relatively recently published Evolution Textbook. Dr. Eisen is also a strong proponent of the Open Access movement in scientific publishing and is Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology. For recent news see http://twitter.com/phylogenomics" For further instructions on how to submit abstracts to AFP 2012, please go here: http://biofunctionprediction.org/node/415 We are looking forward to seeing you in Long Beach, California! Iddo Friedberg on behalf of the AFP organizing committee -- Iddo Friedberg http://iddo-friedberg.net/contact.html -- Alexandra Schnoes, Ph.D. Scientist, Babbitt Laboratory Program Coordinator, Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration University of California San Francisco Tel: 415-502-1248 Fax: 415-514-9656 Email: schnoes@gmail.com