"The availability of the complete parts lists of organisms, that is, catalogs of all their genes and thus all their proteins, has been redirecting biologists toward a global perspective on life processes -- to study the role of all genes or all proteins at once. ... This new approach promises stunning breadth of perspective. At the same time, it threatens to inundate scientists in a flood of data that will overwhelm their ability to interpret it. Powerful new types of bioinformatics will clearly be required to assimilate and interpret the data that will issue from various types of genomics research."
 

The main goal of the Workshop is to bring leading researchers working at the interface between genomics and the mathematical sciences in contact with mathematicians, computer scientists and statisticians who are interested in learning about recent research in computational biology.
 

The Workshop will feature research-level presentations on topics from mathematics (broadly interpreted) of current or potential relevance to genomics and proteomics. Biological themes include: the analysis of gene expression data from DNA microarray experiments, genome
annotation, sequence analysis and genetic mapping. Consistent with the interdisciplinary nature of this event, we will have talks by biologists as well as by mathematical scientists working in the field of genomics.
 

The Workshop is organized jointly between the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology  and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute .  It will be held June 24-26, 2000, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and will follow a two-week MSRI/PMMB short course entitled "Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Molecular and Cell Biology" . A relaxed schedule of four presentations per day is planned to allow plenty of time for informal interactions between participants.