DREAM4 Conference

This year, the DREAM conference is partnering with two related events in systems and regulatory biology in what promises to be a very exciting joint meeting. Our partners are the 6th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Regulatory Genomics and the 5th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Systems Biology. The joint conference on systems and regulatory biology will be held at MIT, in the Broad Institute, on Dec 2-Dec 6, 2009, between Wed at 5pm and Sun at 1pm.

For information on the joint conference, including invited speakers, venue, hotels, etc., please visit the site for the joint conferences of RECOMB Systems Biology/Regulatory Genomics/DREAM4

As in the previous DREAM conferences, DREAM4 will feature posters and oral presentations of papers accepted by our Program Committee. Besides this usual conference format, the DREAM4 Conference will feature the discussion of predictions of a set of four DREAM4 challenges. Each challenge is composed of one or more datasets which originated from a biological system or in-silico representation of a biological system that have some aspects unknown to the challenge participants. The predictors are invited to infer as best as possible the unknown data or underlying network associated with the challenge. The actual measurements and networks along with the results of the predictions will be disclosed at the conference.

Conference Dates And Venue

Conference Registration

Conference Program

Timeline for Oral Presentations, Papers and Posters

For information on submission, formatting, partner journals, etc., please go the site for the joint conferences of RECOMB Systems Biology/Regulatory Genomics/DREAM4.

• Paper submission deadline (Reg/Sys/DREAM): Fri July 31, 2009 (CLOSED)
• Abstract submission deadline: Oct 1st, 2009
• Notice of conf. acceptance/journal assignment by: Sep 15, 2009
• Final notification of journal acceptance: Oct 15, 2009
• Notification of Talk/Poster Selection: Oct 15, 2009
• Papers published in Partner Journals: Dec 1st, 2009

Call for Predictions and Network Inference from Data

To download the data to participate in the challenge or to upload your predictions follow the links here

• DREAM challenge response deadline: Oct 15, 2009
• Notification of challenge performance: Nov 15, 2009 (at the latest)

Invited Speakers

Regulatory Genomics: Confirmed Speakers

• Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute), Mark Biggin (Berkeley LBNL JGI), Bob Waterston (U Washington), Kevin White (U Chicago), Rick Young (Whitehead Institute)

Systems Biology and DREAM4*: Confirmed Speakers

• Walter Fontana (Harvard University), Nevan Krogan (UCSF), Ihor Lemischka (Mount Sinai), Franziska Michor (Sloan Kettering), Gary Nolan* (Stanford), Michael Yaffe* (MIT)

Program Committees

Regulatory Genomics

• Orly Alter, Nitin S Baliga, Panayiotis (Takis) Benos, Mathieu Blanchette, Michael R. Brent, Albert Erives, Eleazar Eskin, Ernest Fraenkel, Nir Friedman, Mikhail Gelfand, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Tim Hughes, Uri Keich, Christina Leslie, Hao Li,Adam Margolin, Uwe Ohler, Aviv Regev, Mireille Regnier, Eran Segal, Ron Shamir, Saurabh Sinha, Mona Singh, Christopher Workman.

Systems Biology and DREAM4

• M. Madan Babu, Gary Bader, Joel Bader, Diego di Bernardo, Jim Collins, Joaquin Dopazo, Eleazar Eskin, Igor Jurisica, Pascal Kahlem, Andre Levchenko, Avi Ma'ayan, Adam Margolin, Satoru Miyano, Dana Pe'er, Theodore Perkins, Timothy Ravasi, Frederick Roth, Michael S Samoilov, Roded Sharan, Mona Singh, Pavel Sumazin, Denis Thieffry, Ioannis Xenarios.

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