Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO)

Connecting Ohio's Bioinformatics and Bioscience Research Leaders
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
June 28, 29, 30, 2006

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The Inaugural Ohio Collaborative Bioinformatics Conference (OCCBIO) was held in Athens, Ohio on June 28-30, 2006. The conference provided an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of approaches, research findings, and experiences in the domain of computational approaches to biology-related problems. The central purpose of the conference was to foster long-term collaborative relationships among informatics and life sciences researchers from academia, government and industry, spanning interests across Ohio.

Keynote speakers included:
• Dr. John Weinstein, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology CCR, National Cancer Institute
  Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery: Intergromic Molecular Profiling and the Miner Suite
• Bruce Johnson, Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and Director of the Ohio Department of Development
• Anthony J. Dennis, Ph.D., President and CEO of Omeris
  Driving Technology Convergence through Collaboration - Bioinformatics
• Prof. Dan Gusfield, Founding Editor-in-chief of The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Bioinformatics
  Combinatorial Optimization Problems from Population Genomics

Conference program included:
• 52 Oral Presentations
• 40 Poster Presentations
• Industry Panel Discussion

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Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO)

Connecting Ohio's Bioinformatics and Bioscience Research Leaders Ohio University, Athens, Ohio June 28, 29, 30, 2006

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Connecting Ohio's Bioinformatics and Bioscience Research Leaders
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
June 28, 29, 30, 2006