Frederick NCI/MRMC/NIAID Combined Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics Forum

• Mission Statement
• Calendar of Activities
  • June 24-25 Meeting and Tutorial with Lincoln Stein
  • STAR Award
  • 2004 Master's Projects
• Relevant Sites
• Steering Committee
• Contact Us

Mission Statement

The mission of the Frederick Forum on Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics is to facilitate and enable scientific interaction and collaboration among scientists working at Ft. Detrick by creating enhanced opportunities for information and resource sharing, and by identifying and seeking to minimize barriers to bioinformatics and chemoinformatics resources. The Forum is intended to complement other Bioinformatics groups within the participant organizations by focusing on Frederick-specific issues such as leveraging and efficient use of local resources.

Calendar of Activities

An intensive day of informatics demos and tutorials, led by individuals from the participant organizations is scheduled for June 7 in Building 549 in Frederick. Each topic area is envisioned as having a demo, followed by a tutorial. There will be no advanced registration, and the demos will be open to all, but tutorial attendees will register in advance. The following possible topics/instructors were mentioned, although this list should be regarded as a rough first draft only.

1. TRACE analysis - Bert Gold
2. RNA Structure Analysis - Bruce Shapiro
3. TIGER Biosensor (IBIS) - Kevin Anderson
4. BioSPICE packages - Frank Lebeda
5. 2-D gel tools - Pete Lemkin
6. The ABCC Grid Database - Bob Stephens
7. Homology analysis - Ravi
8. Classification -- Brian Luke
9. Accessing ABCC Resources - Bob Stephens
10. DAVID - Rich Lempicki
11. EASE - Rich Lempicki
12. Delilah - Tom Schneider
13. Splice - Greg Alvord

Primary souce of Advertising for the tutorials and demos will be at the Spring Research Festival where informatics posters will be gathered in one spot.

2004 Master's Projects

2004 Projects in Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics for Master's Canidates. Contact information for the sponsoring investigator is at the bottom of each project description.

• 2004 Master's Projects Descriptions

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Relevant Web Sites

Organizations

• National Cancer Institute
• NCI-Frederick
• National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
• United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

General Bioinformatics, Biocomputing, and Chemoinformatics

• NCI-Frederick Advanced Biomedical Computing Center
• NCI-Frederick Statistical Consultation Bureau
• Biomedical Image Processing and Database Analysis Group (NCI/LECB)
• CCR Bioinformatics Faculty
• NCI/CCR Microarray Technology Initiative
• NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT)

Online Tools and Databases

• NCI/LMC Chemical Information Services web site
• Offers 2-D gel analysis tools and access to MicroArray Explorer microarray analysis tools
• Microarray Explorer
• discover.nci.nih.gov
  Bioinformatics site with microarray analysis tools, molecular interation maps and other bioinformatics tools (NCI)

Educational and Instructional

• ATC's Microarray Course (NCI)
• ATC's Affymetrix Training Course (NCI)
• Johns Hopkins Summer Courses in Statistics
• CIT's mAdb course (NIH)
• CIT's course on statistical analysis of microarray data (NIH)
• On-line statistics textbook with some help material

Steering Committee

• Dr. Bert Gold, LGD, CCR. NCI -- Chair
  301-846-5098
  goldb@ncifcrf.gov
  Building 560, Room 11-85
• Dr. Janelle Cortner, OD, CCR, NCI -- Coordinator
  301-846-5712
  jc328z@nih.gov
  Building 428, Room 39A

NCI:
Dr. Marc Nicklaus, LMC, CCR
301-846-5093
mn1@helix.nih.gov
Building 376, Room 207

Dr. Pete Lemkin, LECB, CCR
301-846-5535
lemkin@ncifcrf.gov
Building 469, Room 150

Dr. Bob Stephens, SAIC, ABCC
301-846-5787
bobs@ncifcrf.gov
Building 430, Room 127

Dr. W. Greg Alvord, DMS, CSS
301-846-5101
gwa@css.ncifcrf.gov
Building 362, Room 33

NIAID:
Dr. Tim Meyers, NIAID
301-496-0502
tm7f@nih.gov
Building 50, Room 5509

Dr. Richard Lempicki, SAIC
301-846-1910
rlempicki@niaid.nih.gov
Building 550, Room 204

Dr. Glynn Dennis, SAIC
301-846-1910
gdennis@niaid.nih.gov
Building 550, Room 102

MRMC:
Dr. Jaques Reifman, HQ, MRMC
301-619-7915
reifman@tatrc.org
Building 504

Dr. Frank Lebeda, USAMRIID
301-619-4279
frank.lebeda@det.amedd.army.mil
Building 1425, Porter Street

MAJ Karen Kopydlowski, WRAIR
301-319-9824
Karen.kopydlowski@na.amedd.army.mil
Springfield, MD

Contact US

Questions or suggestions about the Frederick Forum on Bioinformatics and
Chemoinformatics, its web page or activities may be directed to Bert Gold,
Forum Chair, at goldb@ncifcrf.gov or Janelle Cortner, Forum Coordinator, at
jc328z@nih.gov.