NOREILLY@irlearn.bitnet ("Niall O'Reilly ", NOREILLY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE) (01/18/89)
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FIRST CANADIAN WORKSHOP ON BIOINFORMATICS
6 - 7 July, 1989 - Ottawa, Canada
The First Canadian Workshop on BioInformatics will be held
in Ottawa, Ontario on 6 - 7 July, 1989. This Workshop is
sponsored by the National Research Council Canada,(NRCC),
Federal Department of Industry, Science and Technology
Canada,(ISTC), Health & Welfare Canada and the Ottawa Carl-
eton Research Institute.
The goal of this Workshop is to bring together
researchers(academic and industry), practitioners, users and
science policy makers to explore the expanding role of data
banks, and new technologies in present-day biotechnology.
The goal is to have a balanced workshop offering presenta-
tions on the practical applications of these systems as well
as a forum for presenting users needs and the potential im-
pact of new technologies.
The Workshop will be modular in format, focussing on several
inter-related topics
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. New Applications(1) . Microbiology and Cellular .
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. Sequence and Structural . Industrial and Commercial .
. Databanks(2) . Applications(4) .
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List of Speakers and tentative titles
Topic
1 Charles Cantor Director, Human Genome Center,
Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
`Human Genome Project: Problems and
Prospects'
2 Chris Sander European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, FRG.
`Information Systems = Databanks + Networks
+ Access software'
2 Arthur Lesk EMBL and MRC Laboratory
of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
`Vertical and Horizontal Integration
of Databases in Molecular Biology'
2 Andrew Coulson University of Edinburgh, UK
`Sequence Database Searching using a
Parallel Computer'
2 Martin Bishop University of Cambridge, UK
`Computing needs for large scale DNA
sequence projects and inference of sequence
function'
2 Chris Rawlings Imperial Cancer Research Foundation, UK
`From databases to knowledge-bases for
Molecular Biology'
3 Alain Bussard CODATA, France
`The Exponential Growth of Biological:
A Challenge for Science'
1 Richard Feldmann National Institutes of Health, US
1 Christian Burks Los Alamos National Laboratory, US
`Databases relevant to molecular biology:
new directions in managing and manipulating
them'
2 Michael Zuker National Research Council Canada
`Protein comparisons: sequence alignment
versus structural superposition'
1 Dennis Benson National Library of Medicine, US
`The National Center for Biotechnology
Information - Projects and Goals'
4 Richard Wakeford British Library, European Biotechnology
Information Project, UK
4 George Garrity Merck Co., US
`Laboratory Information Management
systems for large scale industrial
screening programs'
4 Jack Franklin ASFRA, Netherlands
`The Commercialization of BioInformatics'
4 Joe Modelevsky Digital Equipment Corporation, US
`Why are industrial scientists interested
in bioinformation technologies'
3 Micah Krichevsky National Institutes of Health, US
`Global Communication among Microbiologists:
Microbial Strain Data Network with the
Microbial Information System(MICRO-IS) as
Catalysts for Data Standardization'
3 Arnold Pindar Laboratory of the Government Chemist, UK
`The Microbial Cuulture Information
Service: Its growth and preservation'
1 Lois Blaine American Type Culture Collection, US
`Efforts to provide interdisciplinary
access to the terminology and nomenclature
of Biology'
For more information contact:
Dr. John R. Rodgers. Tel: 613-993-3294
National Research Council Canada, BITNET: JRR@NRCVM01
M-55, Room-275, Dialcom: CDT0099
Montreal Road, FAX: 613-952-9112
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S2
Canada.
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Registration Fee(Canadian Funds) $195.00
Accomodation: Minto Place Suite Hotel
187 Lyon Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Rates: Single room suite Single occupancy $75.00 per night
Double occupancy $85.00 per night
Two room suite Single occupancy $90.00 per night
Double occupancy $100.00 per night
To register contact: Ottawa Carleton Research Institute
300 March Road, Suite 204
Kanata, Ontario CANADA K2K 2E2
Tel. (613)-592-8160
FAX. (613)-592-8163
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