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RECOMB2012: Barcelona hosts the elite of the computational biology community for 4 days

• The world's largest event of computational biology will be held in Barcelona from 21 to 24 April
  
• Among the guests, there will be people like the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009), Ada Yonath, and Richard Durbin, a member of the Royal Society
  
• The event will take place at the Hotel Fira Palace, in Barcelona, Spain

The 2012 edition of the conference series RECOMB (REsearch in COMputational Biology) will be held in Barcelona from 21 to 24 April at the Hotel Fira Palace. The organizing committee, led by Roderic Guigó, program coordinator of Bioinformatics and Genomics program, at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), has invited some of the most remarkable figures in the field of computational biology to participate in the event.
Since 1997, when the conference series began, researchers have a forum where to share recent theoretical advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine. The increasingly frequent use of computational tools in analyzing the data produced by genomics, has encouraged the formation of interesting networks of collaboration between different research areas including molecular biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, mathematics, physics, etc. So one of the objectives of the conference is to present the most effective tools of data analysis to help the expansion of new biological discoveries.
This time, more than 300 attendees will have the opportunity to hear presentations from leading scientists worldwide, as Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 2009, for her study of the structure and function of ribosomes. She will be accompanied, among others, of researchers like Richard Durbin, a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in the UK; Thomas Gingeras, group director at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York; Eileen Furlong, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), in Heidelberg; and Alfonso Valencia, from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).
About the event

RECOMB2012
Date:    from 21st to 24th April 2012
Place:  Hotel Fira Palace
Avinguda de Rius i Taulet, 1
08004 Barcelona, Spain
Web:    http://recomb2012.crg.cat/
For further information: Laia Cendrós, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). Tel. +34 93 316 02 37 - +34 607611798. E-mail: laia.cendros@crg.eu