CCL: CompLife'07: Life Science Free Software Session-Call for Contributions

 Sent to CCL by: "Andreas  Bender" [andreas.bender*_*complife.org]
 Hi All,
 A lot of free software exists in the Life Sciences which we are not
 aware of. We are currently organizing a conference focusing on
 Computational Life Sciences, and during this conference we are also
 planning to include Free Software Tutorials as well as a Free
 Software Session.
 At the last (second) CompLife conference in Cambridge (England) we
 had about 15 people presenting their toolkits, from the Chemistry
 Development Kit (CDK) over KNIME (a pipelining tool in the spirit of
 PipelinePilot) to Systems Biology tools such as Cytoscape. (See
 http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/complife06/freesoft.html for
 more
 information about last year's session.)
 So if *you* are also developing free software in the chemical or
 biological sciences and would like to get known with it - just read
 below! You are cordially invited to join us in Utrecht at the Free
 Software Session of this year's CompLife conference.
 Best wishes and hope to see you in the Netherlands!
 Andreas
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            Call for Proposals and Contributions for
              LIFE SCIENCE FREE SOFTWARE TUTORIALS
                           and the
              LIFE SCIENCE FREE SOFTWARE SESSION
         to be held at CompLife 2007 ( http://www.complife.org/ )
        in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on October 3-6, 2007
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               LIFE SCIENCE FREE SOFTWARE SESSION
         held at CompLife 2007 (http://www.complife.org/)
        in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on October 4-6, 2007
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 In recent years more and more free and open-source software has been
 developed for chemo- and bioinformatics, molecular modeling or other
 Life Science applications, however, many of the programs are not well
 known. Following the great success of last year's Free Software
 Session at CompLife 2006 we are organizing another special session
 dedicated to this type of free software. Authors of free software will
 have the opportunity to present their program to the CompLife
 audience during the welcome reception which will consist of
 researchers and users from computer science, biology, chemistry and
 everything in between.
 In case you are interested in the free software session, send us an
 email to fss]-[complife.org and briefly describe your program and how
 you intend to present it at the conference (1-2 pages max - please
 include URL to downloadable version where available). The only
 restrictions are that the program be freely available
  or even open source; it must also be related to Life
 Science applications. The deadline for these proposals is June 22,
 2007. In mid-July we will notify you if your software demo has been
 accepted.
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             LIFE SCIENCE FREE SOFTWARE TUTORIALS
         held at CompLife 2007 ( http://www.complife.org/ )
        in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on October 3, 2007
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 The CompLife organizing committee invites proposals for tutorials to
 be held in conjunction with the conference. Although a variety of free
 software programs, libraries or public datasources are available in the
 area of Life Sciences, many researchers do not know they exist or are
 afraid of using because of their apparent complexity. For this reason,
 we are seeking proposals for tutorials that teach interested researchers
 and users how to use such libraries, programs, public databases, etc.
 The tutorials are intended to last about 1.5 to 2 hours and will be held
 the day before the main conference.
 IMPORTANT DATES:
 Tutorial proposals due: June 1, 2007
 Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 1, 2007
 Tutorial matrial due: September 16, 2007
 PROPOSAL DETAILS:
 Proposals should be submitted electronically by June 1 to the
 tutorial chairs tutorials]-[complife.org. Proposals should be in either
 PDF or ASCII format and include the following:
 * Basic information:
 Title, brief description, name and contact information for each tutor,
 length of the proposed tutorial.
 * Audience:
 Proposals must clearly identify the intended audience for the tutorial
 (e.g., end-users, programmers, researchers). What background will be
 required of the audience? Why is this topic important/interesting to
 the community? What is the benefit to participants?
 * Coverage:
 Enough material should be included to provide a sense of both the
 scope of material to be covered and the depth to which it will be
 covered. The more details that can be provided, the better.
 * Bios:
 Brief biographical information on each tutor (including qualifications
 with respect to the tutorial's topic).
 * Special Equipment:
 Please indicate any additional equipment needed (if any). The standard
 equipment includes a LCD projector, a single projection screen and
 microphones.
 We look forward to receiving your contributions.
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 Computational Life Sciences '07 Utrecht/The Netherlands, 4-6 October 2007
 Visit http://www.complife.org !
 Andreas Bender, Novartis, Cambridge/MA - http://www.andreasbender.de