Pan American Advanced Studies Institute: Knowledge Discovery in Genomic Databases on Data Mining Applications for Genomics and Bioinformatics; Montevideo, Uruguay, November 2003

University Of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens GA

Investigators

Abstract

0322312 Dean This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 2003, on the topic of data mining applications for genomics and bioinformatics. Organized by Dr. Jeffrey Dean of the University of Georgia, the institute will involve approximately 30 students and 10 graduate/post-doc researchers from the U.S. and Latin America, and 12 lecturers from the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Uruguay. The PASI has two principal goals: 1) educate participants about the state-of-the-art in knowledge discovery as applied to genomic databases; and 2) improve networking approaches and applications of genomic data mining tools in agriculture and biosciences research. Speakers, lecturers and hands-on workshops will emphasize leading edge developments across several fields that impinge on bioinformatics. Discussions will focus on the use of knowledge discovery technologies to elucidate patterns hidden in the vast stores of data being generated by high-throughput genomics techniques. Two case study workshops focused on structural genomic and gene expression databases will be used to demonstrate the application of concepts introduced in the courses. Up-to-date results on the PASI will be made available at http://fungen.botany.uga.edu/Projects/Pine/Pine.htm.