9^th BioPathways Meeting at ISMB 2008, Toronto, Canada

• computational methods for synthetic biology
• computational methods for metagenomics
• modeling of interactions within bacterial communities
• evolution of metabolic networks
• evolution of regulatory networks
• computational methods for metabolomics
• computational network approaches for discovering disease associations
• reconstructing network dynamics from experimental data

Each plenary session will include several long invited presentations (45'), followed by a panel discussion on the session theme. To encourage presentation of cutting-edge research and work-in-progress in computational approaches to molecular pathways, we will also include contributed talks as part of the meeting's session. A contributed talk consists of a short presentation of relevant method, tools and analyses. Particular emphasis will be made on works along the themes of the plenary sessions, as well as research in pathway visualization and reconstruction, all of which are subjects followed by the consortium's workgroups. If you wish to present a contributed talk at BioPathways 2008, please send a 200 word abstract describing your work. Authors are encouraged to add URLs of web-based tools, and selected tools will be featured on the BioPathways web site. Abstracts should arrive by May 1, 2008, and presenters will be notified no later than May 31, 2008. Submissions should be sent to: bpc-cfp@biopathways.org

We look forward to seeing you at BioPathways 2008. For the organizers: Vincent Danos, Joanne Luciano, Vitor Martins dos Santos, Eric Neumann Aviv Regev and Vincent Schachter