This issue in pdf (2,3 Mb) Archive: previous issue (July 2000): Special theme: Robotics list of all previous issues Next issue: January 2001 Special theme: Computer Graphics and Visualization About ERCIM News: ERCIM News reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly. The printed edition has a circulation of 7000 copies. ERCIM News is published by ERCIM EEIG, B.P. 93, F-06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France E-mail: officeercim.org Director: Jean-Eric Pin Central Editor: Peter Kunz (peter.kunzercim.org)

ERCIM News No.43, October 2000 Contents by Michael Ashburner, Joint-Head of the European Bioinformatics Insitute ERCIM has launched the 2001/2002 Fellowship Programme Irish Government invests over Euro 635 Million in Basic Research Bioinformatics: From the Pre-genomic to the Post-genomic Era by Thomas Lengauer Computational Genomics: Making Sense of Complete Genomes by Anton Enright, Sophia Tsoka and Christos Ouzounis Searching for New Drugs in Virtual Molecule Databases by Matthias Rarey and Thomas Lengauer A High Performance Computing Network for Protein Conformation Simulations by Marco Pellegrini Ab Initio Methods for Protein Structure Prediction: A New Technique based on Ramachandran Plots by Anna Bernasconi Phylogenetic Tree Reconciliation: the Species/ Gene Tree Problem by Jean-François Dufayard, Laurent Duret and François Rechenmann Identification of Drug Target Proteins by Alexander Zien, Robert Küffner, Theo Mevissen, Ralf Zimmer and Thomas Lengauer Modeling and Simulation of Genetic Regulatory Networks by Hidde de Jong, Michel Page, Céline Hernandez, Hans Geiselmann and Sébastien Maza Bioinformatics for Genome Analysis in Farm Animals by Andy S. Law and Alan L. Archibald Modelling Metabolism Knowledge using Objects and Associations by Hélène Rivière-Rolland, Loïc Taloc, Danielle Ziébelin, François Rechenmann and Alain Viari Co-operative Environments for Genomes Annotation: from Imagene to Geno-Annot by Claudine Médigue, Yves Vandenbrouke, François Rechenmann and Alain Viari Arevir: Analysis of HIV Resistance Mutations by Niko Beerenwinkel, Joachim Selbig, Rolf Kaiser and Daniel Hoffmann Human Brain Informatics - Understanding Causes of Mental Illness by Stefan Arnborg, Ingrid Agartz, Mikael Nordström Håkan Hall and Göran Sedvall Intelligent Post-Genomics by Francisco Azuaje Combinatorial Algorithms in Computational Biology by Marie-France Sagot Crossroads of Mathematics, Informatics and Life Sciences by Jan Verwer and Annette Kik Biomolecular Computing by John McCaskill The European Molecular Computing Consortium by Grzegorz Rozenberg Configurable DNA Computing by John McCaskill Molecular Computing Research at Leiden Center for Natural Computing by Grzegorz Rozenberg Cellular Computing by Martyn Amos and Gerald G. Owenson Research in Theoretical Foundations of DNA Computing by Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and György Vaszil Representing Structured Symbolic Data with Self-organizing Maps by Igor Farkas Neurobiology keeps Inspiring New Neural Network Models by Lubica Benuskova Contribution to Quantitative Evaluation of Lymphoscintigraphy of Upper Limbs by Petr Gebousky, Miroslav Kárny and Hana Krizová Approximate Similarity Search by Giuseppe Amato Education of ‘Information Technology Non-professionals’ for the Development and Use of Information Systems by Peter Mihók, Vladimír Penjak and Jozef Bucko Searching Documentary Films On-line: the ECHO Project by Pasquale Savino IS4ALL: A New Working Group promoting Universal Design in Information Society Technologies by Constantine Stephanidis Identifying Vehicles on the Move by Beate Koch Virtual Planetarium at Exhibition ‘ZeitReise’ by Igor Nikitin and Stanislav Klimenko Reports 6th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments by Robert van Liere Trinity College Dublin hosted the Sixth European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV’2000 by David Vernon Fifth Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraints by Eric Monfroy Announcements International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society, 1st Issue: February 2001 (journal website) 8th International Conference on Database Theory, London, 4-6 January 2001 (conference website) 37th Dutch Mathematical Congress, Amsterdam, 19-20 April 2001 Optimal Control and Partial Differential Equations - Innovations and Applications: Conference in Honor of Professor Alain Bensoussan’s 60th Anniversary, Paris, 4-5 December 2000 VisSym ‘01 - Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, Ascona, Switzerland, 28-30 May 2001 IEA/AIE-2001 - The Fourteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 4-7 June 2001 (conference website) International Conference on Shape Modelling and Applications, Genova, Italy, 7-12 May 2001 (conference website) JCAR 2001 International Conference on Shape - The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, Siena, 18-23 June 2001 UAHCI 2001 - 1st International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, LA, USA, 5-10 August 2001 (conference website) ICANNGA 2001 – 5th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Prague, Czech Republic, 22-25 April 2001 CWI Incubator BV helps researchers starting a company.. CWI - Data Distilleries Raises $24million.. INRIA’s 2000-2003 four-year contract signed.. The department of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin hosted the first Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking.. VTT Information Technology sells its VIP Intelligent Pagination system to Unisys Corp.. CWI upgraded its connection to SURFnet to gigabit level.. Patrick Valduriez, INRIA and his co-authors C. Bobineau, L. Bouganim and P. Pucheral from the PRISM Laboratory of Versailles University have been distinguished by the “Best Paper Award’ at the VLDB conference..