Hi All, This is an announcement for: O'Reilly's 2003 Bioinformatics Technology Conference, taking place February 3 - 6, 2003, in San Diego, California More information at: http://www.oreillynet.com/biocon2002/ It's an unusual but compelling mix of information technology, bit twiddlers, academic researchers, industry types, headhunters, and standards setters (and wannabes), brought together in in one 3 ring circus by the O'Reilly organization, the people who document Open (and some closed) Source IT with their retro-animal covered screeds on Perl, Python, apache, etc. This year, the keynotes include emissions from the minds of: - Lincoln Stein - too-young godfather of Perl Bioinfo, CGI.pm, DAS, Moby, etc - Stephen Wolfram - ex-boy genius of Mathematica, author of 'A New Kind of Science' - Suzi Lewis - Godmother of the Gene Ontology project - Alvis Brazma - Lead cheerleader for the MGED, MIAME gene expression standards. - James Gosling - programming god/demon (Java, NeWS, EMACS), Sun Fellow, Canadian - Damian Conway - nonpareil Perl Edutainment speaker, Author, Australian, singer - James Kent - late-blooming/exploding bioinformatics genome gnome from UCSC. - Francis Ouellette - longtime NCBI vet, now escaped to UBC Bioinformatics Ctr - and others For a sense of what last year's conference was like, check out its coverage page: http://www.oreillynet.com/biocon2002/ Disclaimer: I don't work for O'Reilly, but I did attend the 2002 conference, liked most things, didn't like some things, then got hit up by the organizers, to assure more-of-the-former/less-of-the-latter and so have been volunteering some time to help them do an even better job this year. -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (v&f) - hjm@tacgi.com <<plain text="" preferred="">>

Oops! 2003 conference URL should be: http://conferences.oreilly.com/bio2003/ Sorry.. -- Cheers, Harry Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (v&f) - hjm@tacgi.com <<plain text="" preferred="">>