The Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences will be hosting the International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure/Systems Biology (BGRSSB-2010) in Novosibirsk, Russia, from 20-27 June 2010.
As one of the key disciplines in modern biology, bioinformatics is a rapidly developing science. Consequently, each of the past BGRS events was focused on the most important topics of that time. To keep this tradition going, BGRSSB-2010 will be centered on bioinformatics and systems biology.
Systems biology largely focuses on the study of the organization and operation of the biological systems at various levels: molecular genetic entities, cells, tissues, organs and organisms on the basis of information encoded in their genomes.
Systems biology strongly depends on high-performance experimental technologies:
- sequencing of genomic DNA, analysis of its between-population and evolutionary variation;
- study of the expression of genes and gene complexes using biochips-based modalities;
- structural and functional analysis of proteins and metabolites using mass spectrometric methods;
- study of the structural and functional organization of biological objects (macromolecules, chromosomes, cells, tissues, organs, organisms) using modern microscopic methods;
- construction of artificial molecular genetic systems using genetic engineering techniques.
