Conference on Visualizing Biological Data - VIZBI 2012

[Matt Hibbs]

We are delighted to announce VIZBI 2012 (http://vizbi.org/2012/), the
3rd international meeting on ‘Visualizing Biological Data’ - and the
first in a series of EMBO conferences on this topic - to be held at
the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg (Germany), 6-8
March, 2012. VIZBI 2012 brings together scientists actively using or
developing computational visualization to study a diverse range of
biological data; the conference also attracts participation from
medical illustrators, graphic designers, and graphic artists.

VIZBI 2012 features 22 invited talks from high-profile speakers that
will review the state-of-the-art and challenges in visualizing data
from genomes, transcripts, proteins, cells, organisms, and
populations. Prior to the meeting (5 March), there will also be
tutorials on visualization tools & methods. All VIZBI participants
have the opportunity to present a poster describing their work. Just
before your poster session, you will be given ~60 seconds and 2
PowerPoint slides to briefly introduce yourself and your poster to all
VIZBI participants (details here). If you cannot join us in
Heidelberg, you have the option of virtual registration, which allows
participation via streaming video and chat.

Registration is now open, and early registration closes 29 January
2012.

The first two VIZBI meetings were timely and energized and have
fostered some significant advances in the field; VIZBI 2012 promises
no less, and is supported by a greatly expanded organizing team - we
hope you can join us for this exciting event!