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PIUG 2010 Biotechnology Meeting

New Biologics: Proteins & Beyond

Wednesday, February 10, 2011

Amgen Inc.
360 Binney Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
(One Kendall Square, Building 1000)

Overview

We are very pleased to announce the fourth annual PIUG 2010 Boston Biotechnology meeting, to be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 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, "Managing Biosequences: Retrieval to Results." Following are examples of issues to be addressed in this conference:

Post Processing	Document navigation Merging data sets Sorting, indexing, bucketing, pruning Reports, charts and visualization Statistical analysis Automated processing of records (e.g. Microsoft Word and Excel macros; alerts) Annotation & mark-up
Biosequence Searching and Informatics	Designing queries that strike a balance between casting a broad net and cherry-picking the best results How to merge sequence and text results to tell the best story BLAST summit: settings, comparison to other algorithms, and sensitivity/specificity trade-offs

Preliminary Details

Meeting capacity: 100 registrants (pre-registration is strongly suggested)
Registration ends February 10, 2010.
Registration fees (USD):

	$50.00		members
	90.00		non-members
	90.00		all registrants, after Feb. 3, 2010 and prior to meeting day
	100.00		on-site registration
	30.00		Reduced rate for students, retirees, and unemployed attendees

PIUG gratefully acknowledges the support of the following sponsors:

Gold
Gold
Silver
Silver
Bronze
Bronze
Bronze

For sponsorship opportunities, contact Christine Geluk (Christine_Geluk @ eri.eisai.com).

2010 Planning Committee

Program:	Ruben Diaz	Genentech
	Elyse Turner	Merck & Co. Inc
	Alice Goshorn	Bristol-Myers Squibb
	Seth Mendelson	Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
	Monica Weiss-Nolen	Sanofi Pasteur
	Kristine Atkinson	Boston Scientific
	Qin Meng	Amgen Inc
Evaluation:	Sian Griffiths	Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Registration:	Ken Koubek
	Kim Spytek	Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
	Moninder Tank	Sagacious Research
Fundraising:	Christine Geluk	Eisai Corporation of North America
	Helen Oen	Eisai Corporation of North America
Planning/Travel:	Qin Meng	Amgen Inc
Web Pages:	Rick Williams	Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc
	Tom Wolff	Wolff Information Consulting LLC
Meeting Book:	Alison Taylor	Abbott Laboratories

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