The third meeting of the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Text Mining was held in conjunction with ISMB in Australia this year, following the 2001 meeting in Copenhagen and the 2002 meeting in Edmonton. The Text Mining SIG has been organized by the BioLINK group (http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/BioLINK), with its main contributors Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, Bedford, MA, USA) and Alfonso Valencia (CNB,...

All aspects of the field of itch, from basic science to quality of life to therapeutics, are moving rapidly. Attendees are already looking forward to the next congress in Nara, Japan, in the fall of 2015.

AnAlysis of RnA-seq dAtA Profiling the transcriptome has been a central application of NGS technologies. Since the sequencing technology generates short reads, the first step is to map the reads onto the source genome, genes, and transcripts. Despite development of many algorithms and tools for mapping reads to the reference genomes, accurately mapping RNA-seq reads remains a tough problem due ...

Laboratory and epidemiological studies on childhood and adult malignancy support a role for the developmental origins of cancer. The Developmental Origins of Cancer Symposium hosted by the University of Minnesota (February 28, 2009 to March 1, 2009) brought together individuals from diverse disciplines to discuss and prioritize steps needed to advance the research area. Information on key speak...

In its third year of existence, the French Phage Network (Phages.fr) is pursuing its expansion. With more than 25 groups, mostly based in France, working on the various aspects of phage research, the network has increased its visibility, interactivity, and activity. The third meeting of the Phages.fr network, held on November 2017 at the Gif-sur-Yvette Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiq...

The American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) and its membership seeks to benefit patients by promoting the highest possible standard for brachytherapy practice, support health care professionals through the encouragement of state of the art technology and education, promote clinical and laboratory research, and advocate for the socioeconomic aspects of brachytherapy. The 2017 ABS Annual Meeting too...

In July, 2005, the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology at the campus of the University of Bordeaux, France, hosted a focused week of seminars, workshops, and discussions around the theme of “teaching signal transduction.” The purpose of the summer school was to offer both junior and senior university instructors a chance to reflect on the development and delivery of their teaching activ...

The Company of Biologists Workshop entitled 'Mitosis and Nuclear Structure' was held at Wiston House, West Sussex in June 2013. It provided a unique and timely opportunity for leading experts from different fields to discuss not only their own work but also its broader context. Here we present the proceedings of this meeting and several major themes that emerged from the crosstalk between the t...

As a continuation of the OCL workshop during the MODELS 2013 conference in October 2013, a number of OCL experts decided to meet in November 2013 in Aachen for two days to discuss possible short term improvements of OCL for an upcoming OMG meeting and to envision possible future long-term developments of the language. This paper is a sort of “minutes of the meeting” and intended to quickly info...

the last week of June 1994. In a break with tradition, there was no Z User Meeting in 1993. With an 18 month break between ZUM'92 and ZUM'94, the venue was greatly enhanced by the more clement British summer climate than that which had been endured during the previous Z User Meetings, in the previously regular December slot. (Praxis) was Programme Chair, and Mike Hinchey (University of Cambridg...