Wellcome to the AB3C.::X-meeting::.
First Brazilian Congress on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Gloria Hotel - Town of CAXAMBU - M.G. - BRAZIL - October 4 to 7, 2005
"X" like the essential chromosome, the "X" on the map, "X" the query and the solution, "X" of assembling strands and strings: Biology, Bioinformatics, Brazil, Computational, Congress
The "X-meeting" is organized by AB3C [Associação Brasileira de Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional] as its annual reunion, to congregate Brazilian and International reports on recent progresses (posters and technical sections) with lectures and mini-symposia by researchers of the most remarkable issues in the field
Evolving Program for 2005 (lecture titles are being used only as example)
| October 4 | Afternoon Night |
| Opening | |
| Lecture 1 | BLAST, a diverse set of sequence analysis tools - Stephen Altschul [NCBI] |
| Lecture 2 | Ontologies for biologists - Michael Ashburner [Duke University] |
| Poster Section A | Posters on Computational Biology |
| Party 1 | Bossa Nova (pool) and D.J. (pub) |
| October 5 | Morning Afternoon Night |
| Mini-symposia 1 | System modeling - chair: Luciano [Jonas A., S. Subramanian] |
| Lecture 3 | |
| Technical Section A | Papers on Computational Biology |
| Mini-symposia 2 | Patter Recognition and Extraction of Knowledge - chair: André P. Leon [Ulisses, M. Gribskov, Bruno Sobral] |
| Poster Section B | Posters on Molecular Biology |
| Party 2 | Samba (pool) and D.J. (pub) |
| October 6 | Morning Afternoon Night |
| Mini-symposia 3 | Proteomics - chair: Marcelo Vale |
| Lecture 4 | |
| Technical Section B | Papers on Molecular Biology |
| Mini-symposia 4 | Genes and Disease - chair: Anamaria Camargo [Emmanuel, S. Sunyaev, S. Souza] |
| Poster Section C | Posters on Bioinformatics |
| Party 3 | Axe (pool) and D.J. (pub) |
| October 7 | Morning Afternoon Night |
| Mini-symposia 5 | Structural Biology - chair: Igor Polycarpov |
| Lecture 5 | Structural genomics target selection strategies - Steven Brenner [Berkeley] |
| Technical Section C | Papers on Bioinformatics |
| Mini-symposia 6 | Databases and Tools - chair: D. Natale [Meidanis, E. Camon, Ana Tereza] |
| Concluding remarks | AB3C reunion |
| Party 4 |
Live band |
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