PLoS Computational Biology Conference Postcards from PSB 2010

Ruchira S Datta,Matthew W Lux,Philip E Bourne

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000746

Abstract

We were pleased to see PLoS Conference Postcards return to the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), held January 4–11, 2011. This year we received a Postcard from A. Murat Eren, a PhD student at the University of New Orleans, in which he discusses a software package designed for use in microbial ecology research. We hope to see Conference Postcards at ISMB 2011, and if you would like to contribute a Postcard you can find out more at: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/doi/pcbi.1000746.

Highlights

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), held on the Big Island of Hawaii from January 3–7, 2010, was our first call for Conference Postcards
Postcards aim to be a departure from routine conference reports since they are written through the young and enthusiastic eyes of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who intentionally focus on a small subset of what transpires at the meeting— from keynotes to research paper presentations to posters to working group discussions
What follows are two Postcards from that meeting, written by Ruchira Datta, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Kimmen Sjolander (University of California Berkeley), and Mathew Lux, a graduate student in the laboratory of Jean Peccoud (Virginia Tech). They independently chose to report on the presentation made by Edward Marcotte titled ‘‘Deaf Plants, Bleeding Yeast, and Other Surprising Disease Models’’

Summary

Introduction

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), held on the Big Island of Hawaii from January 3–7, 2010, was our first call for Conference Postcards. PLoS Computational Biology Conference Postcards from PSB 2010 Postcards aim to be a departure from routine conference reports since they are written through the young and enthusiastic eyes of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who intentionally focus on a small subset of what transpires at the meeting— from keynotes to research paper presentations to posters to working group discussions.

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