Bioinformatics of genome regulation and structure and systems biology
Dear colleagues!
From June 20 to 27, 2010, the Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia) holds the next International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure and Systems Biology (Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure\Systems Biology – BGRS\SB-2010), the seventh since 1998.As part of the BGRS\SB-2010 conference, a school of young scientists "Bioinformatics and Systems Biology" will be held on June 28-29.
Bioinformatics, as one of the key areas of modern biology, is a rapidly developing science. Therefore, each of the past BGRS conferences was focused on the most relevant issues for its time. In order to preserve and develop this tradition, the BGRS conference, held in 2010, is dedicated to bioinformatics and systems biology.
The main task of systems biology is to study the patterns of organization and functioning of biological systems of molecular genetic, cellular, tissue, organ and organismal levels based on information encoded in their genomes.
Systems biology relies primarily on high-performance experimental technologies:
- sequencing of genomic DNA, analysis of its population and evolutionary variability;
- studies of gene expression and gene complexes using biochip approaches;
- structural and functional analysis of proteins and metabolites based on mass spectrometry methods;
- studying the structure and function of biological objects (macromolecules, chromosomes, cells, tissues, organs, organisms) using modern microscopy methods;
- designing artificial molecular genetic systems using genetic engineering methods.
Bioinformatics methods play an important role in systems biology. They provide an opportunity:
- accumulate and integrate experimental information in databases;
- to carry out its computer analysis;
- to carry out mathematical modeling of the structural and functional organization of living systems;
- predict new properties of living systems;
- and on this basis – to plan new rounds of experimental research.
Systems biology, following physics, is moving in a direction where the planning of an experiment and its interpretation are unthinkable without a deep theoretical and computer study of the studied systems and processes.
In this regard, the conference will pay particular attention to research based on the integration of experimental and computer/theoretical approaches.
The following are the substantive areas of intersection of bioinformatics and systems biology that are of particular interest to the conference:
- genomics;
- chromosomics;
- transcriptomics;
- proteomics;
- metabolomics;
- reconstruction and modeling of gene networks;
- cell biology;
- physiological genetics;
- developmental biology;
- evolutionary biology;
- synthetic biology
- medical biology and pharmacology;
- biotechnology.
The results of the latest research in these areas will be presented at the conference. The conference program will consist of plenary, sectional reports, round tables and a school of young scientists. The program, as before, will be formed taking into account the proposals of the conference participants, who can apply for the formation of the sections headed by them and the selection of their participants. The section heads will be provided with preferential conditions for participation in the conference by the organizing committee.
We invite you to take part in the Seventh International Conference "Bioinformatics of Regulation and Genome Structures\Systems Biology – BGRS\SB-2010 (Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure\Systems Biology – BGRS\SB-2010).
Write: bgrs_sb2010@bionet.nsc.ruDetails are available on the conference website
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