ECCB European
Conference on Computational Biology 2003
In conjunction with
JOBIM
Journées Ouvertes : Biologie, Informatique, Mathématique 2003
September 27-30,
2003, Paris, FRANCE
The
scientific program is now available on the ECCB'2003 web site:
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We are pleased to invite you to the European Conference on Computational
Biology (ECCB) 2003.
ECCB is a multi-disciplinary conference that bridges the fields
of computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology
by bringing together involved scientists from all over the world.
It is the second of a revolving scheme in which, each year, one
of the European countries hosts the European conference, often jointly
with the national conference on computational biology.
The first edition ECCB2002
was thus held in October 6-9, 2002 in Saarbrücken, Germany, in conjunction
with GCB. In 2003, ECCB will be held in conjunction with JOBIM, the
french conference on computational biology.
ECCB-JOBIM 2003 will take place at the Centre de Conférences
de la Villette, in Paris. The Conference Center is located in the
nord east of the city. It is part of the Cité
des Sciences
(Science and Industry City) the biggest institution of
scientific and technical popularisation in Europe. Both are located
inside a parc, the Parc
de la Villette, which also houses the former Beef Cattle
market of Paris transformed into a huge cultural center; the Cité
de la Musique (Music City) with a museum, an amphitheatre and concert
halls; many walks and eleven beautiful gardens with alluring names;
an outside movie screen etc. The Parc and Conference Center are just
a few tube stations away from all the most famous monuments of Paris
and its other reputed museums.
Typical areas of biological interest include but are
not limited to:
- Annotation
- Genomics
- Comparative maps
- Molecular sequence analysis
- Molecular structure
- Evolution
- Phylogenetics
- Biochemical networks
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- Development control
- Recognition of genes and regulatory elements
- Gene expression
- Gene networks
- Molecular interactions
- Computational proteomics
- Combinatorial libraries and drug design
- Analysis of genetic variations
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The topics of interest also include the development and application
of advanced computational methods for biological problems including
computational techniques such as:
- String and graph algorithms
- Linguistic methods
- Combinatorics
- Constraint satisfaction
- Knowledge representation
- Databases
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- Pattern recognition
- Machine learning
- Data analysis
- Stochastic modeling
- Robotics
- Parallel computation
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Since ECCB-JOBIM 2003 is financed in part by IMPG,
registration fees are extremely attractive, especially for students.
IMPG is part of the French
Bioinformatics Program of the Ministry of Education, Research and
Technology. IMPG is represented by a committee that groups researchers
from the main public research institutions involved in computational
biology (CNRS, INRA, INRIA,
INSERM).
The main role of the committee is to foster and support interdisciplinary
research at the interface of computer science, mathematics and physics
with biology through the organisation of workshops, seminars, meetings,
conferences and summer schools, as well as the invitation of young
researchers or PhD students and of foreign researchers for short stays
in French laboratories.
The French Bioinformatics Program of the Ministry of
Education, Research and Technology has the goal of supporting specific
research projects in French laboratories.
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