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Summer School in Genomics

The CNR-IRGB (Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica) and the CRS4 are organising the 3rd Sardinian Summer School "Genomic Analysis of Complex and Monogenic Disorders" (Sept. 9-13, 2013). The course is funded by the Regional government of Sardinia  and will be free of charge for all attendees. The aim of this Summer School in Genomics…

Workshop on Future Demands and Challenges in ICT and Bioinformatics Tools for NGS

This workshop will deal with requirements and challenges related to ICT and bioinformatics tools that will need to be satisfied and addressed in the next 10 years to cope with the avalanche of data that will be produced. This workshop is the first of a series that will create the catalogue of the needs and…

Hadoop and NGS data processing hackathon III

This hackathon is a technical meeting of the WG3 parallel computing task force and is centered on problems in the high-throughput sequencing domain. The hackathon will be held on June 4th and 5th, 2013, at Polaris Science and Technology Park, Pula (Cagliari, Italy). The event is aimed at bioinformaticians and software developers who are using…

SWAT International Workshop in Sardinia

CRS4 in collaboration with the Grassland, Soil&Water Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) and with AgriLife Research of Texas A&M University System and with the support of theWater Research Institute of the National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari and…

CRS4 Seminar. Sustainable Energy Development: The Present Situation and Possible Paths to the Future

Pula (CA), July 02, 2012 - 15:00 Sardegna Ricerche - Conference Room, Loc. Piscina Manna - Parco tecnologico Polaris - Building 2 Speaker Prof. Noam Lior Abstract Recent estimates and forecasts of the conventional fossil fuel resources and their reserve/production ratio, nuclear power, and renewable energy potential, and energy uses are surveyed. A brief discussion of the status,…

DART2012 - Call for paper

Barcelona (Spain), October 05-06, 2012 6th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval: novel distributed systems and applications Satellite Event of KDIR 2012 http://www.kdir.ic3k.org Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/363066620411238/ Twitter http://www.twitter.com/dart2012ws DATES: Paper Submission: June 21, 2012 Authors Notification: July 10, 2012 Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 24, 2012 Workshop days: October 5-6, 2012 CHAIRS: Cristian Lai…

CRS4 Bioinformatica researcher joins editorial board of PLos ONE

CRS4 Bioinformatica researcher joins editorial board of PLoS ONE, the largest open access journal in the world. In his role of Academic Editor, Alberto de la Fuente will be responsible for the process of peer review of articles in the field of Network Biology, in particular on Network Inference. http://www.plosone.org  

5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval

DART 2011 reminder deadline G5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval. September 17, 2011 - Palermo (Italy). Paper submission deadline: June 3, 2011. Info: clai@crs4.it Web: http://www.diee.unica.it/dart2011/cfp.html Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143145639085447 Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/dart2011ws  

Colloquia CRS4 2011: Delivering the next generation of supercomputing with reconfigurable hardware

Cagliari, Monday June 6th, 2011 - 16:00/18:00 Auditorium - Tiscali Campus, Sa IIletta - S.S. 195, Km 2.300 Speaker Oskar Mencer - CEO and Founder Maxeler Technologies Abstract As microprocessors reach the limits of attainable clock frequencies and acceptable power consumption, major microprocessor vendors are enabling higher degrees of parallelism by increasing the number of…