FIRST SYMPOSIUM ON APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATICS IN BIOLOGY State University of Campinas, 4-6 August 1993 Campinas, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil The Center for Biomedical Informatics/UNICAMP, in commemoration of its 10th anniversary, will promote this symposium with the aim to present and to discuss, for the first time in Brazil, the applications of Informatics in Biology. The symposium is sponsored by the University's Institute of Biology, the Medical Science College (Chair of Medical Informatics and Department of Medical Genetics) and the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics. TOPICS, LECTURES AND PANELS - Informatics and Biology: the new alliance (Inaugural Address) Renato M.E. Sabbatini (UNICAMP, Campinas) - Numerical taxonomy and its applications in Biology (Closing Address) Jesus S. Moure (Federal University of Parana, Curitiba) - Applications in Molecular Biology and Genetics - Biological Databases and Telematics - Digital Processing of Biological Signals and Images - Informatics in Environmental Monitoring and Remote Sensing - Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks in Biology and Medicine - Informatics and Chronobiology - Educational Applications of Computers - Modeling, Simulation and Computers in Biology - Biostatistics and Computing - Artificial Life, Evolutionary Programming, Genetic Algorithms The Symposium will also host an one-day Pre-Congress Course on "Informatics in Biology", Free Software Demonstration and Exchange sessions, and two sessions of Posters Communications (which has received 19 papers). The symposium proceedings will be published with all abstracts of presentations to the conference. They are available for free downloading via 'anonymous FTP' in the Internet academic network, at node CCSUN.UNICAMP.BR, directory pub/medicine/documents/portuguese. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Renato M.E. Sabbatini (President) Carlos Eduardo Nascimento de Lima (Secretary General) Alexandre Gianini Martins (Software Exchange and Demonstrations) Marcelo Okamoto Tanaka (Poster Sessions) Joao Meidanis (Scientific Counsel) Raul Neder Porrelli (Scientific Counsel) Hilton Silveira Pinto (Scientific Counsel) Jacques Vieilliard (Scientific Counsel) INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Nucleo de Informatica Biomedica Universidade Estadual de Campinas Caixa Postal 6005 13081-970 Campinas, SP Tel. (0055 192) 39-7130 Fax. (0055 192) 39-4717 Enail: SABBATINI@CCVAX.UNICAMP.BR SABBATINI@BRUC.BITNET $