{"51808":{"#nid":"51808","#data":{"type":"news","title":"As Biology and Medicine Experience a New Dawn, College of Computing Professors are Leading the Way","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA, April 7, 2006\u00a0 \u003C\/strong\u003ECoC Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)\u00a0Professors Concettina Guerra and Alberto Apostolico led the Tenth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) as conference chair and program chair, respectively. RECOMB is a well-established\u00a0 conference in the dynamic field that bridges computer science and biology, reshaping\u00a0medical science and introducing revolutionary improvements to health and\u00a0medicine. The University of Padova hosted this year\u2019s events at the Cinema Palace in Venice, Italy on April 2-5.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u0022Bioinformatics and computational biology are predicted to represent in this century a revolution surpassing the one brought about by computers in the last one,\u0022 says Apsotolico, a pioneer of string processing. This year\u2019s RECOMB topic revolved around two landmark events that are forever changing the way biology and medicine are pursued: the transition from cells to macromolecules as the main subject of biology; and the emergence of computing as a fundamental tool in conquering the daunting amounts of data produced since advanced sequencing techniques began unveiling genome sequences and related compounds of biological interest.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0\u003Cbr \/\u003ERECOMB \u201806 boasted a scientific program in line with its tradition of excellence. Over 700 participants enjoyed a conference program which included 40 paper presentations selected by an international program committee of 38 experts\u2013all past chairs and steering committee members who also developed an extraordinary roster of seven distinguished keynote speakers:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAnne-Claude Gavin - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany \u003Cbr \/\u003EDavid Haussler - University of California, Santa Cruz \u003Cbr \/\u003EAjay K. Royyuru - IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center \u003Cbr \/\u003EDavid Sankoff - University of Ottawa, Canada \u003Cbr \/\u003EMichael S. Waterman - University of Southern California \u003Cbr \/\u003ECarl Zimmer - U.S. bestselling science writer \u003Cbr \/\u003ERoman A. Zubarev - Uppsala University, Sweden\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIn addition, two poster sessions on 200 displays showcased some of the best recent and on-going research in the field. The RECOMB conference series was founded in 1997 to provide a scientific forum for theoretical advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine. The conferences attracts research contributions in all areas of computational molecular biology, such as genomics, molecular sequence analysis, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, molecular evolution, protein structure, drug design, and computational proteomics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EConcettina Guerra, CoC Interactive and Intelligent Computing professor was honored to chair the special tenth anniversary of what is considered the flagship conference in computational biology. \u0022The overwhelming success of this year\u0027s RECOMB was made possible by the contribution of many people, groups, and institutions,\u0022 says Guerra. The College of Computing at Georgia Tech was among the prestigious list of international sponsors which included the National Science Foundation (NSF),the Department of Energy, IBM, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, the Internaitonal Society for\u00a0Computational Biology (ISCB), and Associazione Italiana per il Calcolo Automatico (AICA).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFor more information on the 2006 RECOMB \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/recomb06.dei.unipd.it\/home.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EComputational Science and Engineering\u00a0Professors Concettina Guerra and Alberto Apostolico led the Tenth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}