2011 CSHL GENOME INFORMATICS CONFERENCE

描述（申请人提供）：冷泉港实验室基因组信息学会议将重点讨论大规模基因组数据和注释的提供和利用。基因组资源提供了在分子水平上对越来越多的生物体的基本描述。这次会议是每年在美国冷泉港和英国欣克斯顿交替举行的系列会议的一部分，该系列会议的目标是探索这些资源的最新供应，也许最重要的是，它们作为生物发现引擎的用途。这包括数据的存储及其相关数据模型，有效算法的设计以揭示这些数据集的非明显方面，本体以简洁地描述生物信息，以及支持管理、可视化和探索的软件系统。会议还涵盖了基因组学与各种成像应用的结合，以及基于基因组学了解微生物发病机制的最新尝试。在过去的几年里，会议扩大了它的职权范围，以确保它与信息学的最新应用保持同步，同时确保对生物信息学的强烈关注。会议汇集了这个不断发展的领域的一些顶尖科学家，我们强烈鼓励来自其他大型信息处理学科的研究人员参加。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conference on Genome Informatics will focus on the provision and utilization of large scale genomic data and annotations. Genomic resources provide the fundamental descriptions of an increasing array of organisms at the molecular level. This meeting forms part of a series that alternates annually between Cold Spring Harbor, USA and Hinxton, UK, The goal of the series is to explore both the latest provision of these resources, and perhaps most importantly, their use as engines of biological discovery. This ranges from the storage of data and their associated data models, to the design of effective algorithms to uncover non-obvious aspects of these datasets, to ontologies to concisely describe biological information, and software systems to support curation, visualization, and exploration. The conference also covers the use of genomics in combination with various imaging applications and the latest attempts to understand microbial pathogenesis based on genomics. The conference has expanded its remit over the last few years, to ensure it remains current with the latest applications of informatics, all the while ensuring a strong focus on biological informatics. The conference brings together some of the leading scientists in this growing field, and we strongly encourage researchers from other large scale information handling disciplines to attend. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The explosion of genomic information in the past decade poses an enormous challenge to computational biologists in how to manage this information and render it meaningful and useful. Without intense discussion of a variety of different approaches to handling this information to ensure that it can be applied across diverse species, systems and scales, the data is in danger of being isolated in virtual silos where it is much less useful. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conference on Genome Informatics will focus on the provision and use of large scale genomic data and annotations. Genomic resources provide the fundamental descriptions of an increasing array of organisms at the molecular level. The goal of the series is to explore both the latest provision of these resources, and perhaps most importantly, their use as engines of biological discovery. This ranges from the storage of data and their associated data models, to the design of effective algorithms to uncover non-obvious aspects of these datasets, to ontologies to concisely describe biological information, and software systems to support curation, visualization, and exploration.