The Association for Medical and Bio Informatics Singapore
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Dr Marco Paganoni
Program Director, EUAsiaGrid
CERN, Geneva
Email: [email protected] 29 July 2010
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Dear Dr Paganoni,
EUAsiaGrid and AMBIS
As the President of AMBIS, I would like to thank you personally
for helping us run the highly successful Grid BioWorkshop
which we co-sponsored.
(http://ambisnews.blogspot.com/2010/04/euasiagrid-bioworkshop-4-6-may-2010.html)
As an association with a longstanding pioneering role in the introduction
of bioinformatics and medical informatics in Singapore and in the region,
with a key role in the founding of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical
Informatics (APAMI), and with our former President Professor KC Lun
being the President of the International Medical Informatics Association
(IMIA), we have been concerned with the lack of computational expertise
amongst our members.
Your organisation's key role in providing the infrastructure to support
high performance computing in the sciences, represents a fundamental
asset and a cornerstone for our work. Without such an advanced computational
framework which can catalyse the much needed change in our community,
our work will be set back by decades.
In conjunction with the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB), through the local organising committee, we are planning
to get our key members to conduct a workshop on
bioinformatics and computational biology on the Grid.
This workshop will be co-organised by the
Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) and us
as a satellite workshop of
the FAOBMB Conference scheduled for October next year in Singapore. All key
permissions have been obtained by the parties concerned. We need your
cooperation and permission for us to hold the workshop using your
vast computing resources.
We on our part will gather all our members to encourage their organisations to
participate in EUAsiaGrid and to support your outstanding effort to outreach
to all other countries in our region.
Looking forward to your favourable response.
Yours sincerely
Dr Rick Chan,
President, AMBIS
Association for Medical and Bio Informatics Singapore
c/o 10 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119242. www.ambis.org.sg
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