Announcement

We are pleased to announce that "The 7th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatic Training Course" will be held at the International Center in Jeju University, Korea, in March 18-21, 2008. This time we will also organize a mini-symposium at which the lectureres of the training course talk about their original research topics. The trainees are expected to attend the mini-symposium, as well.

If you wish to participate in this training course as a trainee, please apply now (see below for application). The number of the trainees from Japan is limited to 10. The trainee is expected to be either a graduate student or a postdoc in bioinformatic or a related area who is fluent in English. In addition, the trainee is required to hold the passport which is valid for more than 6 months at the time of the training course. The deadline of the application is February 8, 2008. The successful applicant is covered with travel expenses including air and train tickets, lodging and meals. He/she is also provided with a PC linked with Internet during the course.

Outline

Venue: International Center in Jeju University, Korea
Dates: March 18th to March 21st, 2008
Trainees: Ten trainees from each of the three countries, 30 in total
Organizers
- Center for Information Biology and DDBJ (CIB-DDBJ) at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG)
- Korean BioInformation Center (KOBIC) at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)
- Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology
Supported by: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Lecturers

Korea

Dr. Jong-Hwa Bhak (KOBIC)
Dr. Sangsoo Kim (Soongsil U.)
Dr. Namshin Kim (KOBIC)

Japan

Dr. Yoshio Tateno (NIG)
Dr. Takashi Gojobori (NIG)
Dr. Naruya Saitou (NIG)
Dr. Daron M. Standley (Osaka U.)

China

Dr. Lei Liu (SCBIT)
Dr. Yang Zhong (Funda U.)
Dr. Lu Xie (SCBIT)

Program

Bioinformatics Training Course

March 18 (Tue), 2008
17:00-18:00	Check-in and registration
18:00-18:10	Opening Address
18:10-18:20	Welcome Speech
18:30-	Reception
March 19 (Wed), 2008
-09:00	Breakfast
09:00-11:00	Fundamentals of Bioinformatics	Yoshio Tateno
11:00-13:00	Structural bioinformatics tools at the Protein Data Bank Japan	Daron M. Standley
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Basic Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis in Proteomics	Lue XIE
16:00-18:00	Interactomics	Jone-Hwa Bhak
18:30-	Dinner
March 20 (Thu), 2008
-09:00	Breakfast
09:00-11:00	Microarray Data Analysis	Lei LIU
11:00-13:00	Molecular Evolution	Yang ZHONG
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Genome Annotation	Namshin Kim
16:00-18:00	Omics Data Integration Mining	Sangsoo Kim
18:30-	Dinner
March 21 (Fri), 2008
-09:00	Breakfast
09:00-11:00	Evolutionary Geonmics	Takashi Gojobori
11:00-13:00	Some examples of evolutionary genomics study	Naruya Saitou
13:00-14:00	Lunch and Closing Ceremony

Bioinformatics Conference: March 20 (Thu), 2008

Session	Time	Topic of Presentation	Speaker
1	10:00-10:30	Functional annotation of structural genomics targets by sequence-weighted structure alignments	Daron M. Standley
	10:30-11:00	Case studies of post-translational modification identification and prediction	Lu XIE
	11:00-11:30	Interaction network in biology	Jong-Hwa Bhak
	11:30-11:40	Coffee Break
2	11:40-12:10	Alternative Splicing and Comparative Studies	Namshin Kim
	12:10-12:40	Sequence classification based on multidimensional scaling	Sangsoo Kim
	12:40-13:10	Comparison of network topology	Lei LIU
	13:10-14:00	Lunch
3	14:00-14:30	Evolution of nervous system	Takashi Gojobori
	14:30-15:00	Construction of Tree of Life by Protein Domain Organizations	Yoshio Tateno
	15:00-15:30	Molecular phylogenetics based on multiple genes and genomic data	Yang ZHONG
	15:30-16:00	Evolution of highly conserved protein non-coding sequences in mammalian genomes	Naruya Saitou