2011 Bioinformatics Conferences

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Posted by Dleon on Nov 7, 2010 11:01:06 PM 

With November here, the launch of SOLiD™ BioScope™ software 1.3 is approaching. And as we prepare for the close of 2010, many of us are looking forward to the bioinformatics conferences to come in 2011. Ten years ago there were just a few bioinformatics and computational biology conferences around the world. My favorite was (and still is) ISMB. But now, there is a large variety of meetings related to bioinformatics all over the world -- something almost every month. To help you navigate the bioinformatics conference circuit, I've put together a short list for roughly the first half of 2011:

January 3-7, 2011
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2011
Big Island, Hawaii

February 26-28, 2011
2011 International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics
Singapore

March 7-9, 2011
AMIA: Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
San Francisco, CA

March 14-18, 2011
Sequencing Data Analysis and Interpretation
San Diego, CA

March 28-31, 2011
Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)
Vancouver, BC

April 12-14, 2011
BioIT World
Boston, MA

May 22-27, 2011
The Third International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies
Venice, Italy

July 15-19, 2011
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)
Vienna, Austria

I won't participate in all of these conferences, but I hope to attend a few -- both to see how people are responding to the challenge of managing massive amounts of next-gen sequencing data, and to learn about new approaches to integrating and analyzing this data.

If you have a preferred bioinformatics conference that's not listed above, please share it in the comments, and we’ll add it.