NCRI Informatics Parallel Session International Convention Centre, Birmingham 3rd October 2007

NCRI Informatics Team	Prof Mike Richards	Poster viewing session

The NCRI Informatics Initiative hosted a parallel session on Bioinformatics for Cancer Research at the 3rd NCRI Conference in Birmingham. The session was chaired by Robin Clark and showcased the progress of the Initiative to date and included presentations from an impressive list of experts in the field. The presentations from the session can be downloaded below:

	Introduction Robin Clark
	Where next with pathology informatics in clinical trials? (waiting presentation) Professor Phil Quirke
	Enabling the molecular medicine revolution through network-centric biomedicine Dr Ken Buetow
	Colorectal cancer in silico: a multiscale theoretical study Professor Helen Byrne
Proferred Paper Presentations:
	Has the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement improved the publication quality of early breast cancer (EBC) randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in systemic treatment: a systematic review Clare Peckitt
	Defining endpoints for recurrence in randomised controlled trials of systemic therapy for early breast cancer: a call for standardisation Lucy Kilburn
	Exploiting sample variability to enhance the analysis of microarray data Dr Carla Moller