EMBnet Conference 2008: 20th Anniversary Celebration

September 18-20, 2008 - Martina Franca (Puglia), Italy
Park Hotel San Michele

Conference proceedings published by BMC Bioinformatics

Chris Sander: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York - USA
- Systems biology of cancer pathways

Vincent Breton: Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Grids for Life Sciences: status and perspectives

Jamie Shiers: CERN Grid Deployment Group, IT Department, Geneva, Swiss
- Data Challenges in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

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Total participants	128	Geographical distribution: Africa 4% America 11% Asia 8% Australia 1% Europe 76%

Total number of abstracts submitted	78

Scientific programme	4 Sessions
	5 Nominated lectures
	35 Speakers
	1 Round Table	New tools for bioinformatics teaching

	1 Satellite event	Tutorial on Grid Computing: 34 participants, 10 speakers

	45 Posters exposed (5 sessions)
	2 Permanent demos

Some links to National and local magazines on which news about the Conference have been published	Quotidiano Net Sweden magazine Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (National page) Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (Local page) Quotidiano di Taranto Taranto sera Corriere del Giorno(Provincia Ionica) Artemia Virtual Community ketchup.it

- The conference hosted permanent demos on:

the LIBI Grid Platform: an Italian project for the development of a Grid Bioinformatics Infrastructure. Demos shown available services and Grid enabling bioinformatics applications.
the EGEE Platform to integrate bioinformatics services on the grid: the demonstration aimed at showing how the platform works by submission of simple jobs through a web portal which automizes the submission, the monitoring of jobs and the retrieval of results and shown how the platform mechanisms can handle large-scale deployments or punctual submissions of short tasks. Moreover some examples of bioinformatics workflows execution on the platform through hi-level workflow management tools like Taverna have been shown.