Symposium on Big Data in Mental Health

For anyone interested in data analytics, the BRC-MH at KCL and the Maudsley are organising a symposium on Big Data in Mental Health on July 23rd at ORTUS, Denmark Hill.

Talks will include Maneesh Juneja, Chris Hollis from MindTech, Will Spooner from Eagle Genomics and speakers from the University of Oxford, KCL and the SLaM.

More details available on the website: http://core.brc.iop.kcl.ac.uk/events/big-data-in-mental-health/

Registration on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-data-in-mental-health-biomedical-research-tickets-11667875931

London Perl Workshop 2011

This year’s London Perl Workshop will be held on Saturday 12th November at Westminster University.

It’s free to attend and you can sign up here: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2011/index.html

The schedule isn’t up yet, but an update sent to the london.pm mailing list promises introductory workshops for programmers of other languages, updates on new Perl developments for current Perl programmers all the way up to advanced talks from world-renowned Perl experts.

VIZBI 2012 – Visualizing Biological Data

VIZBI 2012 – Visualizing Biological Data.

EMBL, Heidleberg 6-8th Mar 2012

altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web – altmetrics.org

Conference on evaluating research impact using alternative metrics:

altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web – altmetrics.org.

Conference: Enabling Systems Biology

11th-14th April 2011 – University College London

The conference will gather the current expertise in data integration and systems biology approaches to tackle four domains of research: cell cycle, cellular signaling, metabolism and stem cells.
A workshop will allow participants to practice various bioinformatics tools aimed at analyzing and integrating biological data

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences

Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences available online

European BioConductor Developers Meeting

Announcement from the Bioconductor Mailing List:

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European BioConductor Developers Meeting
Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK
7th-8th January 2010

The meeting is aimed at active package developers and those who are interested in improving their BioC/R coding skills and contributing to the overall BioConductor project.

More details will follow shortly, but the meeting will feature a series of extended tutorials and workshops aimed at topics including genome-wide data management and handling next generation sequencing data, along with shorter flashlight presentations to introduce new packages and concepts.

So ­ please add the dates in your diary and look out for a more detailed agenda and registration details, which will be on their way shortly.

We look forward to welcoming you to Manchester in the New Year!

Crispin Miller (on behalf of the organising committee)

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London Chemical Biology Conference

Posted to the London Bioinformatics Forum mailing list:

The Chemical Biology Centre (CBC) is hosting an annual conference “London Chemical Biology Conference” on Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th September at the Institute of Physics, London.

Registration fee for the event is £200 (and student bursaries are also available to apply for), please refer to our website for more details:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemicalbiologycentre/doctoraltrainingcentre/chemicalbiologyconf

Spaces are limited on this conference and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Registration deadline is Friday 3rd July.