PIUG 2009 Boston Biotechnology Meeting

Sequence Searching and Beyond:
Build a Better Searcher, Build a Better Search

Overview

We are very pleased to announce the third annual PIUG 2009 Boston Biotechnology meeting, to be held on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, hosted by AMGEN, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Due to space considerations this meeting is limited to 100 attendees. The focus of this one-day meeting will be sequence searching and is entitled, "Sequence Searching and Beyond: Build a Better Searcher, Build a Better Search." Following are examples of issues to be addressed in this conference:

• What Must One Know To Be a Sequence Searcher?
• Developing a Sequence Search Strategy: Proteins; Antibodies; Fusion or Hybrid Molecules
• Combining Sequence Searching With Other Searches (Keywords, Structure, Etc.)
• Working With Clients
• Developing a Lexicon
• Sources Used and Deciding Where to Search For What
• Is the Research Complete?

Preliminary Details

• Meeting capacity: 100 registrants (pre-registration is strongly suggested)

• Registration ends February 11, 2009.

• Registration fees (USD):

  	$50.00		members
  	90.00		non-members
  	90.00		all registrants, after Jan. 28, 2009

PIUG gratefully acknowledges the support of the following sponsors:

Planning Committee

Program	Elyse Turner	Merck & Co. Inc
	Alice Goshorn	Bristol-Myers Squibb
	Ruben Diaz	Genentech
	Robert Austin	FIZ Karlsruhe
	Donald Walter	Thomson Scientific
	Qin Meng	Amgen Inc
Evaluation	Sian Griffiths	Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Registration	Ken Koubek	Rohm & Haas Company
	Kim Spytek	Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Fundraising	Christine Geluk	Eisai Research Institute of Boston, Inc
Site Selection	Amy Dasch
Planning/Travel	Qin Meng	Amgen Inc
Web Pages	Rick Williams	Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc
	Tom Wolff	Wolff Information Consulting LLC
Meeting Book	Alison Taylor	Threshold Information Inc.