BioSM-KSU_2015



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The Second Bioinformatics Scientific Meeting in KSU (BioSM-KSU)
May 4-5, 2015, 08:00 AM – 03:00 PM
King Saud University (KSU)
Riyadh, Saudia Arabia

Call for participation Click here (PDF File)

The Bioinformatics Research Group (BioInG) at the College of Computing and Information Sciences (CCIS) at King Saud University (KSU) is pleased to welcome you to the first Bioinformatics Scientific Meeting (BioSM-KSU) in Riyadh. The BioInG is an established research group at CCIS.

The aim of this event is to promote the area of bioinformatics among faculty, researchers, and students. The event will include sessions by experienced researchers in the filed of Bioinformatic. There will be invited speakers from national and international institutions: KSU, KFSHRC, KSUHS, PNU, Fayoum University (in Egypt), UCL (in UK), UNSW (in Australia) and CNRS (in France). The event is an opportunity to exchange ideas and to provide a forum to present the work of undergraduate and postgraduate students in bioinformatics and related areas.

A poster competition will take place during the event. Graduate and undergraduate students are all invited to submit posters in Bioinformatics and relevant areas. Participants choose from the suggested list of papers. In addition, participants can present posters from papers of their choice. Poster will be reviewed for relevance.

Topics:


• Medical Applications of Bioinformatics
• Comparative Genomics
• Big Data and Cloud computing for Bioinformatics
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Data Science applications and technologies in bioinformatics
• Microarray Data Analysis
• System Biology

The event is funded by: the National Plan for Science and technology (NPST) (Project No. 12-BIO2605- 02) and BioInG. The event is hosted in King Saud University, College of Computing and Information Sciences (CCIS).

Looking forward to seeing all of you in Riyadh!