This is the post-event Web site for PSB 2001.

PSB 2001 brought together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. PSB is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology.

The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organized by leaders in the emerging areas, and targeted to provide a forum for publication and discussion of research in biocomputing's "hot topics." In this way, PSB provides an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field.

In 2001, the PSB sessions were:

• Human Genome Variation: Linking Genotypes to Clinical Phenotypes
• Natural Language Processing for Biology: Term extraction, Information retrieval, Information extraction, and Corpus Annotation
• Genome, Pathway and Interaction Bioinformatics
• Phylogenetics in the Post-Genomic Era
• High Performance Computing for Computational Biology
• Disorder and Flexibility in Protein Structure and Function
• DNA Structure, Protein-DNA Interactions, and DNA-Protein Expression
• Structures, Phylogenies, and Genomes: The Integrated Study of Protein Evolution
• Bioethics, Fiction Science, and the Future of Mankind

PSB 2001 Tutorials:

PSB 2001 offered the following tutorals.
• Data Analysis Tools for DNA Microarray data
• Predictive Methods Using RNA Sequences
• Genetic Networks Analysis - The Millennium Opening Version
• Python for Structural Bioinformatics
• High Performance Technical Computing
• Information Extraction from Scientific Texts

In addition, PSB hosted a public meeting of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBionet), which was formed during PSB'98.

The list of registrants is available.

Peer Reviewed Papers

The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work. The online proceedings contain 100% of the papers. The complete set of peer reviewed papers is available as a bound proceedings volume and can be ordered from World Scientific Press. See the original call for papers for more information.

Keynote address: David Haussler, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, gave the keynote lecture, entitled A Working Draft of the Human Genome. Sponsors PSB gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors. We would like to offer a special thanks to the Department of Energy and the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health for their participation since the founding of the conference, and for their commitment to travel support for PSB'99, PSB 2000, and PSB2001. PSB is also sponsored by Partek, Compaq, Proteme, SUN Microsystems, Roche, Biocarta, 3rd Millennium, Inc., SGI and the NASA Center for Computational Astrobiology and Fundamental Biology. PSB is affiliated with the International Society for Computational Biology. If you or your organization would like to be a sponsor of PSB, please contact the PSB Coordinator.

Previous PSB Meetings

• The 2001 PSB meeting
• The 2000 PSB meeting
• The 1999 PSB meeting
• The 1998 PSB meeting
• The 1997 PSB meeting
• The 1996 PSB meeting

For more information:

PSB Conference Coordinator
Kevin Lauderdale
PSB Coordinator
Section on Medical Informatics
SUMC, MSOB X-215
Stanford, CA, USA 94305-5479
Telephone: (650) 725-0659 FAX: (650) 725-7944