ISMB Micro-SIG

ISMB 2007 SIG Meeting
Date: Friday, July 20, 2007
Start time: 9:00 a.m. — End time: 6:30 p.m
Schedule

With more than 400 microbial genomes sequenced and more than 900 in the sequencing pipelines, comparative genomics is turning into a major tool for the annotation and analysis of sequences and genomes. To solve many problems related to the ever-growing number of bacterial sequences, new algorithms and software programs for post-sequencing functional analysis are being developed by the scientific community. Among them are whole genome comparison and visualization, discovery of coding regions and regulatory signals, and deducing the mechanisms and history of genome evolution has been a very active area of research in the last years.

Metagenomics, an emerging subdiscipline of microbiology, allows for the study of genomic sequences found in ecosystems, including genomes of species that are difficult to culture. They provide exciting opportunities to discover the extent of co-existing genetic diversity within natural ecosystems, and even microdiversity within populations of the same species.

This one-day SIG will be devoted to discussing the latest advances in computational techniques and biological insights in the area of comparative microbial genomics and regulation in bacteria. This session will bring together bioinformaticians and experimentalists, and will consist of invited talks and discussions chaired by leaders in the field. Talks will be grouped in four major areas:

1. Comparative, population, and environmental genomics
2. Elucidation of gene regulation in microbes
3. Inference of genome phylogenies and dynamics
4. Building and optimization of publicly available computational tools and databases for microbial analysis.

This website is here to provide information about the Special Interest Group meeting on Comparative genomics, evolution, and regulation in microbes meeting at the 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Vienna, Austria.

We will provide abstracts, agendas and links to external information on this site. If you have any questions, feel free to email us, the list of organizers is on the home page of the website.