PAPER SUBMISSION:

Original, previously unpublished research papers are solicited in all aspects of Computational Methods of SNPs and Haplotypes Analysis. All submissions should be sent by email to Computationalbiology@brown.edu. The papers should be in PDF format having maximum of 10 pages, not including the cover page and bibliography. Submissions must be received in electronic form by December 20, 2006.

SCOPE:

This meeting will focus on current research at the intersection of genetics, computer science, statistics, and related fields in gathering and analyzing SNP and haplotype data and applying it to problems in medicine and basic research. We plan to build on the success of the first and second RECOMB Satellite Meetings on Computational Methods for SNPs and Haplotypes in bringing together leading participants from widely divergent backgrounds to share their expertise and results. The recent availability of genome-scale genotype data has created new possibilities for identifying genetic risk factors of complex diseases, but many problems remain to be tackled. How one deals with inference in the face of so many statistical tests, whether haplotype phasing and haplotype-based methods improve specificity or power, and what is the best design for genome-wide association tests (one-, two- or three-stages designs) are just a few of the problems amenable to analysis that we would like to discuss.