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 ===== Conference sponsorships available for CAMDA 2012 =====
-//Dear Sponsor,//
+Dear Sponsor,
+CAMDA, an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis is soliciting sponsorships for its annual event, which will take place on July13 & 14, 2012 in Long Beach, California, USA.
+Over the past eleven years, CAMDA has been a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research and experience in the analysis of genome-wide data, such as gene transcript or protein expression profiles. Many novel algorithms have been introduced first at CAMDA and this event has regularly been featured in top journals such as the Nature journal (Nature 411, 885, Nature 424, 610) and Nature Methods editorial (August 2008).
+Every year, CAMDA Conference has an average of 100 to 250 attendees who come from all over the world. At CAMDA 2011 eleven countries were represented from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, South Korea, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.  From those countries there were biologists, statisticians, computer scientists, mathematicians and students.
+CAMDA is the only conference on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) using the format of scientific competition.  All speakers at CAMDA are analyzing the same data set.
+Who is invited to sponsor CAMDA?
+  * NGS manufacturers, suppliers and service providers
+  * Software vendors
+  * Storage and high-performance computing vendors
+Attendee Profiles:
+  * Professionals who are in the market for NGS
+  * 100 – 250 attendees annually for the past eleven years
+  * 80% USA + 20% international
+  * 60% academics + 20% industry + 20% government
+Over the past decade, CAMDA has grown to become more and more exciting. Your help as a sponsor of this event will ensure that this trend continues!
+Custom packages, including partial sponsorships and alternatives) can be arranged.  All incoming request are handed on a first come, first served basis. Deadline: June 15, 2012 (to be included in all promotional materials)
+If you are interested in any of our sponsorship packages and have questions please contact Dixie Schroeder at CAMDA@mcrf.mfldclin.edu or 715-221-7266
-We are pleased to invite you to participate in the CAMDA 2012 Conference to
-be held in Long Beach, Claifornia on 13--14 July 2012 by supporting the realization of the
-conference.
-The CAMDA Conference is a reference discussion forum for scientists in the
-field of biomedical and functional genomics research, and has regularly been
-featured in top journals such as the //Nature// journal (//Nature// **411**, 885,
-//Nature// **424**, 610) and the recent //Nature Methods// editorial (August
-). The CAMDA Conference every year brings together the best researchers
-from all over the world working at the frontiers of new developments in
-microarray technology, high-performance computing, and knowledge mining, in
-their application to drug discovery and biomedicine. With an average of
-between 150 to 250 attendees, every year CAMDA has grown and become more
-exciting. This year we have a unique collaboration with [[http://www.mged.org/|FGED]] and [[http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011|ISMB/ECCB]], international key conferences for functional genomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology, and we thus expect an even higher
-degree of participation. Join us at this exciting event and ensure that this
-trend continues!
 ==== With the 1000.00 € sponsorship package you will receive ====