marco ramoni nwero_wpvxoohmsharvardedu american medical informatics association 2008 annual summit translational bioinformatics san francisco ca march 1012 2008 first meeting jointly sponsored american medical informatics association amia international society computational biology iscb 2005 dr elias zerhouni director us national institutes health wrote time need robust bidirectional information flow basic translational scientists necessary clearly evident dr zerhounis quote role biomedical informatics needs play facilitating translational medicine call translational bioinformaticians issued none director nih translational bioinformatics one amias major domains informatics currently national annual conference symposium presentation discussion research work translational bioinformatics response need amia sponsoring first annual summit translational bioinformatics held march 1012 2008 intercontinental mark hopkins san francisco california summit starts morning march 10 three parallel tutorials one tutorial presented leaders two seven national centers biomedical computing ncbcs get successfully funded collaborative r01 ncbcs nih karin remington participating dr remington director center bioinformatics computational biology nigms oversees bisti 1300 research training grants totaling 89 million support projects join biology computer sciences engineering mathematics physics tutorials include introduction translational bioinformatics introduction bioinformatics tools developed multiscale analysis cellular genomic networks magnet another seven ncbcs summit continues keynote presentation dr alan krensky new director office portfolio analysis strategic initiatives opasi deputy director national institutes health dr krensky recently featured nature 448406 science 317887 new leadership role determining nextgeneration transnih roadmap initiatives 11 panels 50 posters nearly 30 peerreviewed papers presented rest summit panels represent many national bioinformatics initiatives including immune tolerance network clinical translational science awards ctsa cabig even leaders seven ncbcs presenting single panel exciting papers presented include work finding agingrelated biomarkers analysis national epidemiological data sets metadata mapping cabig methods prioritize genes within linkage regions summit website httpwwwamiaorgmeetingsstb08indexasp registration httpswwwamiaorgsecureorderloginaspfidsummit iscb members get discount registration amia members scientific program committee atul butte chair stanford university yves lussier track chair university chicago marco ramoni track chair harvard medical school indra neil sarkar track chair marine biological laboratory olga troyanskaya track chair princeton university riccardo bellazzi university pavia howard bilofsky university pennsylvania maricel kann university maryland lucila ohnomachado harvard medical school eitan rubin bengurion university andrey rzhetsky university chicago josh stuart university california santa cruz yao sun university california san francisco hong yu university wisconsin milwaukee marco f ramoni phd assistant professor pediatrics medicine childrens hospital informatics program division health sciences technology harvard medical school massachusetts institute technology 300 longwood avenue boston 02115 httpbclmedharvardedu fri 08 aug 2008 081035 0500 uai amia summit translational bioinformatics san francisco march 1012 2008