Several members of the Helix research group actively participate to ECCB 2003.

Marie-France Sagot co-chaired the Program Committee with Hans-Peter Lenhof and participated to the Organizing Committee.

ECCB 2003 proceedings Bioinformatics19 (Suppl. 2)

Frédéric Boyer and Alain Viari present a paper entitled "Ab initio reconstruction of metabolic pathways".

Guy Perrière, Jean-François Dufayard, Simon Penel, Laurent Duret and Manolo Gouy present with Julien Grassot (CGMC, UMR 5534), a short paper: "Data Retrieval and Handling Tools for the PBIL Gene Family Databases"

Erwan Reguer and Estelle Nugues present with Thierry Vermat (GENOME express) and Romain Cahuzac, Myriam Ferro, Emmanuelle Mouton, Jérôme Garin (CEA/LCP), a short paper: "A software pipeline dedicated to automatic MS/MS data analysis".

See the complete list of accepted papers, short papers and flash presentations.

10 posters are presented by Helix members, often in association with researchers of other research groups: DKB_24, DKB_37, DKB_41, DKB_42, PER_4, PER_14, PER_20, GFM_4, RDNA_1, SQA_5 (see the list of ECCB 2003 posters).

Guy Perrière organises the satellite workshop on Sequence Databases and Ontologies.

Hidde de Jong organises with Denis Thieffry the satellite workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Biological Regulatory Processes.

During the four days of the conference, the consortium GenoStar will demonstrate its bioinformatics platform.