Workshop: BREW 2008

I was in Bielefeld, Germany for BREW2008 workshop. I was quite suspicious of this place as people (http://www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php?option=com_cudbhome&task=show&cudbname=sniemeie , http://www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php?option=com_cudbhome&task=show&cudbname=twittkop ) informed me that Bielefeld does not exist ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy )! So I went out and took loads of snaps ( http://picasaweb.google.com/sharma.animesh/BREW2008?authkey=ranwczoE2-Q ) to prove its existence ... well on second thought map is not the territory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn ).
Coming back to the workshop, this is a nice event with a great concept ( http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/250 ) organised by and for people from:
* International Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genome Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany ( http://www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/gradschool/ )
* Molecular and Computational Biology Research School, University of Bergen, Norway ( http://www.mcb.uib.no/ )
* Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing (IMPRS-CBSC), Berlin, Germany ( http://www.imprs-cbsc.mpg.de/ )
* EBI PhD Program, European Bioinformatics Institute, England ( http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ )
* ComBi Program, University of Helsinki, Finland ( http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ )
I had a great time there and would recommend people from the above list to go for BREW 2009 which is tentatively scheduled after a year at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ ... (?)

clipped from www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de BREW 2008 Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany April 28-30 2008 March 1th -- Abstract submission deadline March 7th -- Paper submission deadline March 20th -- Review deadline April 11th -- Deadline for final version of paper April 28th -- Meeting in Bielefeld About BREW BREW aims to give an introduction to scientific conferences, including submission, peer review and presentation of scientific papers. All participants must submit a paper and take part in reviewing papers from other participants in order to attend the workshop. After the review deadline, you have a chance to make alterations to your paper and deliver a final version. All participants will present their paper at the meeting in April. BREW is held in an around-robin fashion each year at the participating PhD programs: Bergen (2007), Cambridge (2006), Berlin (2005), Helsinki (2004), Bielefeld (2003), and Hinxton (2002).