The Forum Bioinformatics 2008 was part of the Fraunhofer Life Science Symposium “Ischemia and Regeneration” to be held in Leipzig on October 24-25th 2008 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology. The organization committee aimed to present current projects in bioinformatics to foster networking and scientific exchange of know-how and novel approaches in this dynamically evolving segment of the Life Science Industry.

Bioinformatics in universities, research institutions and businesses plays an ever more important role, particularly in the field of red biotechnology in the German centers of Life Science research at Leipzig, Jena, Halle, Magdeburg and Dresden. By developing tailor-made solutions for the Life Science community, which provides solutions to problems of biotechnology utilizing computer-assisted methods, bioinformatics has become an indispensable part of drug development, protein design and analytics.

Agenda

09.30: Registration
10.00: Welcome, Martin Pohle, Olaf Brenn

10.15: Topic 1: Linear and Nonlinear Measures of Cardiovascular Variability as Risk Stratifiers in Patients with Ischemic and Nonischemic Chronic Heart Failure,
Prof. Andreas Voss
30 Min. Presentation + Discussion

11.15: Topic 2: CDISC, the International Data Standard for Clinical Research,
Udo Siegmann
30 Min. Presentation + Discussion

12.15: Lunch Break, Discussions, Exhibition
60 Min.

13.15: Topic 3: Functional Genomics Data,
Dr. Matthias Berth
30 Min. Presentation + Discussion

14.15: Topic 4: From Rapid Prototyping to GLP compliant Applications,
Florian Gehrke
30 Min. Presentation + Discussion

15.15: Topic 5: What the plant does,
Dr. Steffen Neumann
30 Min. Presentation + Discussion

16.15: Topic 6: Non-protein-coding RNAs,
Dr. Jörg Hackermüller
30 Min. Presentation + Discussion

17.15: Conclusion and Final Discussion
60 Min. Discussion

18.30: Get Together Dinner with all of the participants of the Life Science Forum.

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