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National Cheng Kung University kicked off GIW 2012 -- the 23rd
International Conference on Genome Informatics -- at International
Conference Hall Dec. 12, attracting more than 140 scholars from 10
countries including Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Canada, America,
Germany, and Australia.
The focus of three-day conference was to explore complex biological
systems and to employ the expertise of computer engineering in designing
effective methodologies for genome-wide study, said Dr. Jung-Hsien
Chiang, the general chair of GIW 2012, at the opening ceremony.
Chiang, an NCKU professor of Institute of Medical Informatics, said,
“GIW 2012 addresses computational understanding of biological systems
for new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology,
both from an academic standpoint as well as from the perspective of
practical application.”
He added, “Genome informatics spans the entire range of everything you
see in the biological community today, from sequence analysis to
proteomics analysis, high-throughput gene expression, next-generation
sequencing data, mass spectrometry, drug design, promoter analysis,
protein complexes, motif binding, protein-protein interactions, stem
cell, microRNA activity, and transcriptional regulatory.”
Yon-Hua Tzeng, dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, NCKU, on behalf of NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung, welcomed
the participants from the world.
“The conference features a lively and informative forum for scientists
and researchers to exchange ideas and approaches, and this can be a good
opportunity for international collaboration,” Tzeng said.
Keynote speaker, Dr. Hideo Matsuda from Department of Bioinformatic
Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, gave a talk Dec. 12 entitled
“Large-Scale Gene Regulatory Network Analysis for Adipocyte
Differentiation on High-Performance Computer.”
Matsuda introduced a study aimed at comprehensively understanding the
gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that govern the process of a cell
differentiation.
Dr. Ilya Shmulevich from Institute for System Biology, USA, will give a
keynote speech on “Integrative Analysis and Interactive Exploration of
Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas,” Dec. 13.
Shmulevich will be followed by Wen-Hsiung Li, a distinguished research
fellow and director of Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan, who will deliver the third keynote speech, on “Protein
Structure, Function and Classification.”
