This was the second time that I participated in the GIW and the meeting was at the same high standards of organization and scientific presentations than the last year.

I appreciated very much the stronger participation of foreigners this year and we can now say that GIW grew from a national workshop of bioinformatics to a fully international conference on genome informatics and computational biology, congratulations.

I found the two keynote speaks very interesting especially the one from Charles Lawrence that was completely new to me. He explained in a very clear way how the new experimental techniques used in molecular biology and genomics changed or research paradigm and that data can in fact induce new hypothesis that can than be tested.

It was also interesting to see that the analysis of interaction networks in different aspects (evolution of interaction networks, relation between gene fusion events and expression pattern, calculation of metabolic fluxes, comparison of interaction maps derived with different methods,...) was reflected in a considerable part of the congress publications and the posters.

The acceptance rate dropped from about 60%last year to about 40%this year (if I remember the numbers correctly)what shows that it gets more difficult to publish at the GIW and the standards will be higher year by year. This is a very good indicator that GIW is on the right way to be one of the big conferences in this field (with ISMB and PSB)in Asia.

　GIW 2002 (The 13th International Conference on Genome Informatics)が次の要領で開催されます。

期                   間：	2002年12月16日(月)〜18日(水)
場                   所：	The Garden Hall, Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, Japan
プログラム委員長 ：	Richard H.Lathrop (University of California, Irvine, PC Co-Chair)
	Kenta Nakai (University of Tokyo, Japan, PC Co-Chair)
ス     コ     ー    プ ：	GIW 2002 is an international conference on genome informatics:computational analyses of genetic information.
	Its scope includes all work that is ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on a molecular basis.
ホ ー  ム  ペ ー ジ ：	http://giw.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/giw2002/
連        絡        先 ：	GIW Secretary Office
	Email: giw@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
	Tel: 03-5449-5615
	Fax: 03-5449-5442
	Address: Laboratory for DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center,
	Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
	4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan