Dear Colleagues, Please excuse this email if you have received it more than once. I am writing to let you know that we are chairing a special section on Alternative Splicing for PSB 2004 (Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2004). This meeting will be held Jan. 6-10, 2004 at the Fairmont Orchid in Kona on the big island of Hawaii. For this session, we will focus on the computational efforts in splice variant research. First, we will cover the computational efforts used in studying alternative splicing mechanisms and disease association. This includes computational approaches for identifying cis elements, analysis of mis-splicing and its disease association. Second, we will cover the computational/bioinformatics efforts in genome-scale analysis of alternative splicing. This includes public data mining and data curation, such as building databases to annotate known variants, inferring new variants, and determining the role of alternative splicing in disease. Third, we will cover the efforts in using microarrays to monitor splice variant expression. Details of the session can be found at http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-splicing.html <http: psb.stanford.edu="" cfp-splicing.html=""> I invite you to submit a manuscript for this session. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will appear in both the bound and electronic online proceedings and will be indexed in PubMed. The paper submission deadline is July 14th, 2003. For more information on the review process, please see the PSB 2004 home page at http://psb.stanford.edu <http: psb.stanford.edu=""> -hui *********************** Hui Wang Ph.D. Bioinformatics, Affymetrix Inc 408-731-5668(Santa Clara) 510-428-8546(Emeryville) *********************** [[alternate HTML version deleted]]