Call for Papers/Posters

Attention Poster Presenters: Please note your poster number. On the day of the poster session (Monday, 20 June), you will need to post your poster on a display board featuring this number. During the poster session, the presenting author will be required to stand by his/her poster. (Note: We will supply velcro for adhering your posters to the boards)

MBE 05 invites abstracts on original contributions for oral and poster presentations on topics of interest to the conference. The space available for a poster is limited to 900mm wide x 1200mm high.

Authors should submit one (1) copy of the abstract stating whether it is for an oral or poster presentation in a MS Word file to Joy Wood at j.r.wood@massey.ac.nz.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 March 2005

Guidelines for Abstract Submission

Abstracts should be prepared using New Times Roman with a font size of 12 according to the format given in the example below. Abstracts must be no longer than half an A4 page.

NBBnet : A National Bioinformatics Initiative for Malaysia

Rahmah Mohamed, Mohd Firdaus Mohd Raih, Sharr Azni Harmin and Latiff Ibrahim
Centre for Gene Analysis Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, MalaysiaNatiaonal Biotechnology Directorate (BIOTEK), Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment,Percel C, 62880, Putrajaya Malaysia

In the era of genomics, proteomics and systems biology, the need for computational biology and computer networks is imperative. In many developed countries such as the USA, Europe and Japan, national, regional and international networks specializing in bioinfomatics are already in place. However, in many developing countries, researchers are not able to utilize resources made avaiable in public domains due to lack of training as well as IT infrastucture. In Malaysia, the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (MOSTE) has established the National Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Network (NBBnet) in an effort to provide researchers with necessary informatics-computional infrastructure and resources for bioinformatics......................

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