ISMB2001 will feature half-day introductory and advanced tutorials. The tutorials will be given  Saturday, July 21, prior to the meeting.

The proposal deadline was January 22, 2001, and the following 14 proposals have been accepted for presentation at ISMB2001.

Please note that the tutorials can only accommodate a limited amount of participants and that some tutorials might be sold out. It is therefore recommended to sign up as soon as possible.

MORNING TUTORIALS,  8:30 - 12:30

• Bioinformatics: the machine learning approach
  Tutor: Pierre Baldi
• Integrated Protein Family Classification for functional genomics
  Tutor: Cathy C. Wu
• Statistical Analysis of Microarray Studies
  Tutor: Emmanuel Lazaridis
• Genetic network analysis
  Tutor: Zoltan Szallasi.
• Mining the Biomedical Literature
  Tutors: Dietrich Schuhmann, Lynette Hirschman, Junichii Tsuji, Sophia Ananiadou and Alfonso Valencia
• The Ajax Command Description language: a framework for application integration and user interface building
  Tutors: Alan Bleasby, Bruno A. Gaëta, Timothy G. Littlejohn, and Michael Poidinger
• Building Linux Clusters for Bioinformatics Applications
  Tutor: Jacek Nowak

AFTERNOON TUTORIALS,  14:00 - 18:00

• Protein Structure Comparison and Structure Patterns, an Algorithmic Approach
  Tutors: Ingvar Eidhammer and Inge Jonassen.
• Network Genomics
  Tutor: Christian Forst.
• Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression Data
  Tutor: Yike Guo.
• Towards the virtual organism: Networks and expression
  Tutors: Jeff Blanchard and Robert Kueffner.
• XML Databases for Bioinformatics
  Tutor: Mark Graves.
• Natural Language Processing for Bioinformatics: The Time is Ripe
  Tutors: Jeffrey T. Chang and Soumya Raychaudhuri.
• Bio-Ontologies, their creation and design
  Tutors: Peter Karp, Carol Goble and Robert Stevens.

Tutorial presenters should observe the following deadlines:

• Draft handouts for the selected tutorials must be submitted by April 2, 2000.

• Final handouts must be received by:   May 30, 2001