Cambridge Healthtech Institute Announces its Inaugural Bioinformatics & Cancerinformatics Conference

Dec. 27, 2011 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) releases full details for its Inaugural Bioinformatics & Cancerinformatics: Turning the Data Deluge into Meaningful Biological Knowledge conference taking place on February 21-23, 2012 at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. Leading experts from industry, government, and healthcare organizations will present compelling talks and best practice examples on annotation, storage, analysis, and search/retrieval of nucleic acid sequence, protein sequence, and structural information. Lectures and panel discussions will be framed around content, analysis software and services, IT infrastructure and other services.

Keynote Presenters:

-- Giles Day, Co-founder and Managing Director, Distributed Bio, LLC

-- David Neil Hayes, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Clinical Research,
   Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

-- Corrado Priami, Ph.D., President and CEO, The Microsoft Research - University of
   Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (CoSBi)

-- Peter J. Tonellato, Ph.D., Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scientist Pathology,
   BIDMC & Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

-- John Quackenbush, Ph.D., Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology,
   Cancer Biology Center for Cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Sessions include:
-- Data Storage, Management and Integration Strategies
-- Integration of Data for Biomarker, Clinical and Personalized Medicine Studies
-- Data Modeling and Computational Integrative Tools
-- Genomics and Integrating Multiple –Omic Data Types
-- Gene Expression and Data Analysis
-- Translating Biomarker-Driven Cancer Treatments into Practice
-- Bioinformatics in the Cloud

The Bioinformatics & Cancerinformatics conference is one of the program offerings at CHI’s flagship event, the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (February 19-23).  This international event features 2 partnering forums, 5 symposia, 18 short courses, and 12 core programs around 4 scientific channels: diagnostics, drug discovery & development, informatics, and cancer. Over 3000 attendees and 150+ sponsors & exhibitors will gather in shared networking functions and in the exhibit/poster hall.

Advance registration discounts are available until January 13, 2012. To view the entire conference agenda and to register, please visit http://www.TriConference.com/Bioinformatics-Cancerinforma...

To inquire about sponsoring and/or exhibiting, contact Jon Stroup, 781-972-5483, jstroup@healthtech.com.

Writers and editors are encouraged to attend. To request a press pass, contact Tracey Fielding at tfielding@healthtech.com.

About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (www.chicorporate.com)

Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) is the preeminent life science network for leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations. CHI’s portfolio of products includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Insight Pharma Reports, Barnett International, Cambridge Marketing Consultants, Cambridge Meeting Planners and Cambridge Healthtech’s Media Group, which includes numerous e-newsletters as well as Bio-IT World magazine.

Founded in 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute strives to develop quality information sources that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments. Basic research related to commercial implications is covered, with heavy emphasis placed on end-user insights into new products and technology as well as coverage on the strategy behind the business.

Contact:
James Prudhomme
Cambridge Healthtech Institute
781-972-5400
jprudhomme@healthtech.com