Pfam 23.0 is now available from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
Janelia Farm Research Campus and Stockholm Bioinformatics Centre. This
release contains a total of 10340 families, with 1063 new families and
52 families killed since the latest release. 73.75%% of all proteins in
Pfamseq contain a match to at least one Pfam domain. 51.22%% of all
residues in the sequence database fall within Pfam domains. Pfam 23.0 is
based on UniProt release 12.5, a composite of Swiss-Prot release 54.5
and TrEMBL release 37.5.

http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/

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John Tate Phone: (+44/0)1223 494 724
The Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: jt6@sanger.ac.uk
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton Hall, Protein families database (Pfam)
Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/
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The University of Manchester, UK, has funding from the BBSRC
(http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/) to run three online courses in Mathematical
Modelling for Systems Biology. The courses are:

Bioinformatics for Systems Biology
Mathematics for metabolic modelling
Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks

The first of these courses, Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, will
begin again on 6 October 2008. It provides an introduction to the data
and modelling methods for systems biology. The final section introduces
dynamic models, preparing participants for the our advanced course in
'Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks'.

The course outline for 'Bioinformatics for Systems Biology' is available
here :

http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/index.html

For further information, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk

International Workshop on
Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS)

28th November 2008, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.swat4ls.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Overview
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The workshop is organized in sessions and open
discussions. Invited speakers will present
state-of-the-art, provocative lectures on the
workshop's main topic, while a number of
submissions will be accepted as oral
presentations and posters on all workshop's topics.

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to attend the 9th International Congress of
Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), October 25-30, 2009 taking place
in St. Louis, Missouri. Please look at the following website for
all necessary information on this Congress which is composed of
53 symposia and 9 Plenary Lectures on all aspects of plant
molecular biology.

http://www.ipmb2009.org

Sincerely,

Perry Gustafson - Chair IPMB 2009

I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice
InterAction Meeting in December 2008 in Hyderabad, India. Please note
that the deadline to apply for bursaries is September 19, 2008.

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Modelling & Informatics

eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting
December 19-20, 2008
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Pre-Conference Workshop - Drug Discovery Design Methods &
Applications (December 15 – 18)

Conference Link:
http://echeminfo.colayer.net/COMTY_hyderabadconference

Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug
Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Screening, Docking,
Structural Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME

Conference Sessions: Biophysical Simulation Applications, Neglected
Diseases Applications, Drug Discovery Informatics, Predictive ADME/
Toxicology

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to attend the 9th International Congress of
Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), October 25-30, 2009 taking place
in St. Louis, Missouri. Please look at the following website for
all necessary information on this Congress which is composed of
53 symposia and 9 Plenary Lectures on all aspects of plant
molecular biology.

http://www.ipmb.2009.org

Sincerely,

Perry Gustafson - Chair IPMB 2009

Dear Colleague:

You are invited to attend the Plant & Animal Genome XVII Conference
(PAG-XVII), January 10-14, 2009 taking place at the Town & Country
Convention Center in San Diego, California. This is a call for
abstracts and pre-registration.

Everyone who submits an abstract is required to pay the registration
fee prior to the meeting to be included in the Final Abstract Guide
and posted on the website. You must be registered by December 1, or
your abstract will NOT be printed or posted on the website. Please
update us if you cannot attend so we may free up poster space in the
Grand Exhibit Hall where exhibits and coffee breaks are just steps
from the Atlas Foyer.

Don't forget to check out the Travel Grant Applications; the deadlines
are closing soon.

I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice
InterAction Meeting in October 2008 in Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia.
Please note that abstracts are still being accepted for posters.
Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics

eCheminfo Autumn Community of Practice InterAction Meeting October
14-17, 2008 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA

Conference Link:
http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferences

Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug
Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Screening, Docking,
Structural Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME,
Chemogenomics

I am posting details for the InnovationWell Autumn Community of
Practice Meeting in October 2008 in Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia. Please
note that abstracts are still being accepted for posters.

Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare Research and Product
Development

InnovationWell Autumn Community of Practice Meeting October 14-17,
2008 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA

Conference Link:
http://innovationwell.net/comty_conferences

The InnovationWell program will be covering topics in systems biology,
computational biology, knowledge management, translational medicine,
metabolomics, and predictive toxicology. The eCheminfo program will be
covering topics in drug discovery informatics.

The next distance courses in Bioinformatics from the University of
Manchester and the University of Leeds, UK, begin on 6 October 2008.
The payment deadline is Friday 19 September.

These Masters level courses follow two themes, Bioinformatics and
Computer Science. The Bioinformatics courses are:

Introduction to Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics for Systems Biology
Introduction to Microarray Data Analysis
Theory and Applications in Bioinformatics
The Bioinformatics of Protein Structure
The Science of Proteomics
Molecular Modelling and Structure-based Drug Design

The computing courses are:

Introduction to software development in Java
Intermediate Java
Biocomputing
Object-oriented analysis and design with UML
Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences