Detailed information about the course
Title | Information Retrieval and Text Mining for Biology |
Dates | June 3-5, 2015 |
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Responsible | Ioannis Xenarios |
Organizer(s) | Patrick Ruch, SIB |
Speakers | Patrick Ruch (SIB Text Mining, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) |
Description | In the life sciences, communication and dissemination of scientific information is still largely provided by texts, notably through research articles. The proposed activity aims to provide participants with a state of the art information retrieval (identify relevant documents in a collection) and text mining (identify and extract relevant information in a document) applied to biology. |
Location |
Geneva, CMU, auditorium S1/S2 |
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Information | See also: edu.ch.embnet.org |
Expenses | Reimbursement: StarOmics PhD students are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class) and meals. Please send the original tickets (no copies, except for the general abonnement) and receipts with the reimbursement form to Corinne Dentan. If you are not a CUSO PhD student: You will be billed for the course (CHF 100.-). |
Registration | CUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account. External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at top of page and the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO"). |
Places | 30 |
Deadline for registration | 01.06.2015 |

