Dear Bioconductor developers and users, We invite you to participate in the ninth international conference for the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA2009), which will be held in Chicago, IL, USA from Oct. 5 to 6, 2009. This year's topic is about next-generation sequencing. CAMDA adopts the approach of a community-wide experiment, letting the scientific community analyze the same contest data sets (a public ChIP-seq dataset). Researchers worldwide are invited to take the CAMDA challenge. Accepted submissions will be asked to give an oral presentation and published in a peer-reviewed journal. Results of analysis are discussed and compared at the CAMDA conference. CAMDA2009 provides a unique environment for testing and demonstrating your latest analysis methods in next-generation sequencing, especially ChIP-seq analysis. Please visit the conference website at: http://camda2009.bioinformatics.northwestern.edu/ You can also join the discussion group at: http://groups.google.com/group/camda2009 We are still updating the website and will keep you updated. Your participation is critical for making this year's CAMDA meeting again a great event. Thanks and have a nice weekend! Pan ------------------------------------------------------ Pan Du, PhD Research Assistant Professor Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 11-176 Chicago, IL 60611 Office (312) 503-2360; Fax: (312) 503-5388 dupan (at) northwestern.edu