1. JOINT INDO-RUSSIAN WORKSHOP " S YSTEMS B IOLOGY AND G ENOME I NFORMATICS OF M. TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES" (SBGI’08) Novosibirsk, Russia, October 12 - 14, 2008 Srinivasan Ramachandran Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi Nikolay Kolchanov Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

2. Organizers Systems Biology and Genome Informatics (SBGI’08) Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi

3. Our sponsors Systems Biology and Genome Informatics (SBGI’08) Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russia Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India PBSoft Ltd.

4. Workshop topics : Developing new approaches of systems biology and genome informatics for studying M. tuberculosis – human immune system interactions, developing new methods for combating tuberculosis and other infectious diseases Systems Biology and Genome Informatics (SBGI’08)

5. Workshop topics : Methods and algorithms of bioinformatics Protein-protein interactions Identification of novel metabolic pathways M. tuberculosis systems biology Novel methods for drug development Computational resources for drug development Problem of tuberculosis as a social diseases Mathematical modeling of the process of infectious diseases and metabolic pathways. Role of non-coding RNA in development of infectious diseases Systems Biology and Genome Informatics (SBGI’08)

6. Scientific program: 17 oral presentations Participants: n Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk n Bangalore, Chandigarh, Delhi Systems Biology and Genome Informatics (SBGI’08)

7. WE ALL HOPE THAT THE WORKSHOP WILL BE MUTUALLY FRUITFUL AND BENEFICIAL! Welcome! Systems Biology and Genome Informatics (SBGI’08)