• Release SP 20th contained:– 47 talks and 2 tutorials

– 46 speakers

• Index of countries:CH: 11; US: 11; UK: 7; FR: 3; JP: 2; NL: 2;

BR: 1; CA: 1; DE: 1; DK: 1; IL: 1; IR: 1;

MX: 1; RU: 1; SA: 1

• Weather: 5 x

Release notes

For many coming to Brazil included unwelcome stopover(s)

It was a relief to be taken charge of at the airport

Welcome cocktail at Oasis hotel

Efficient registration

Many interesting….

and entertaining talks

How many bionformaticians does it take to set up a mike?

Interesting questions

Lively tutorials

Excellent food (how many kilos did you gain?)

In such a nice place

Two great poster sessions

A work(out) session at the beach

The best poster award (and kissing contest)

The gala dinner

Emotional moments

Lots of nice gifts

And dancing till 2 AM

My only frustrationI did not have the time to meet and discuss with most participants. Sorry to all of you, friends or future friends.

For over two years she has worked many hours preparing this meeting

In the last two months she has toiled to get things moving

In the last two weeks she has slaved away to get thing ready

In the last two days she was so tired she could not appreciate how good a job she did

In the last two hours she is starting to realize that……

There are only two good days when you decide to organize a scientific meeting:

-The day you decide that you are going to do it

-The day its finished

In between it will be hell!

In 2004 she proposed that the SP20 meeting could take place in Brazil back to back with ISMB 2006

Claudia Lydie

Sergio told me on the day we were setting up everything: when I get to a meeting I always have an intuition on how well the meeting will be: and this one will be great!

For having made the trip to Fortaleza

For your participation

For your gifts

For your friendship

Have a safe flight back

I hope to see many of you before SP25 (New Zealand) or SP30 (in orbit?)