APBioNet Monthly Newsletter February 2010
Prash
APBioNet Monthly Newsletter
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February 2010
In this issue:
1. Call for participation: InCoB 2010
2. INBIX 2010
3. Call for papers, ACM-BCB 2010
4. ISCB conferences
5. Disclaimer
1. Call for Participation, InCoB 2010
Call for Participation
International Conference in Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2010,
Tokyo 26-28 September 2010
The Ninth International Conference on Bioinformatics, InCoB2010
(incob.apbionet.org or incob10.hgc.jp) will be held at International Conference
Center, Waseda Campus, Waseda University, Tokyo on 26-28 September 2010.
This year, InCoB is organized in collaboration with the International Immunomics
Society (IIMMS) and Chem-Bio Informatics Society (CBI). Day 3 is held in
conjunction with special CBI sessions and the 3rd Conference of Basic and
Clinical Immunogenomics and Immunomics (BCII).
InCoB, the annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network
(http://www.apbionet.org) brings together scientists working in bioinformatics
and computational biology, spanning a wide range of underpinning disciplines
including computer science, biology, biotechnology, genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, immunomics, mathematics and statistics.
Clyde Hutchison (J. Craig Venter Institute), Hiroaki Kitano (SONY CSL), and
Japan Academy Prize 2008 winner Yoshiyuki Nagai (RIKEN CNRID), have accepted to
present Keynotes at InCoB2010. Please see the website for the latest list of
other distinguished speakers.
We invite you to participate in the following sessions:
1. Full papers for oral presentation and publication in BMC Genomics or BMC
Bioinformatics, Immunome Research, ISPJ Transactions on Bioinformatics or
Bioinformation.
2. Abstracts for (A) Poster Sessions and (B) Technology, Tools, Methodology,
Resource, Database, Software Demonstrations or Posters.
3. Late-breaking abstracts for short oral presentations
4. Tutorial videos for virtual e-learning sessions
5. APBioNet Annual General Meeting
Submissions to InCoB2010 may cover any aspect of bioinformatics, computational
biology, chem-bioinformatics, bioinformatic-related cloud computing,
biocomputing, personalized medicine, environmental genomics (white bio),
synthetic genomes and organisms, metagenomics, pharmacogenomics, and immunomics
conveying a scientific result.
1. FULL PAPERS: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 APRIL 2010 ACCEPTANCE: 31 MAY 2010
InCoB2009 will feature oral presentations shortlisted from full paper
submissions, for selection in: - BMC Genomics (IF 3.93)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcgenomics/ - BMC Bioinformatics (IF 3.78)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bioinformatics/ - Immunome Research (unofficial IF
5.33) http://www.immunome-research.com/ - ISPJ Transactions on Bioinformatics
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ipsjtbio or - Bioinformation
http://www.bioinformation.net/
ABBioNet was the first Asia-Pacific bioinformatics society to publish full
papers in BMC Bioinformatics and in 2009, also in BMC Genomics. Supplements from
previous conferences are below:
2009: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10?issue=S3 2009:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10?issue=S15 2008:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9?issue=S12 2007:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9?issue=S1 2006:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7?issue=S5
After rigorous review by the Program Committee, authors will be asked to revise
their manuscripts, prior to acceptance for publication and oral presentation at
InCoB2010, for which at least one author must register.
2. ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 07 JUNE 2010 ACCEPTANCE: 30 JUNE 2010
We solicit high-quality research abstracts for (A) Poster Sessions and (B)
Technology, Tool, Methodology, Resource, Database, Software Demonstrations or
Posters.
At least one author of each selected poster/demonstration must register for
InCoB2010. Furthermore, a single registration can cover only oral presentation
and one poster presentation or two poster presentations. Posters are intended to
convey a scientific result and are not meant to be used as advertisements for
commercial software.
3. LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACTS: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 01 AUGUST 2010 ACCEPTANCE: 10
AUGUST 2010
We invite abstracts on peer-reviewed journal papers that have accepted for
publication or have been will be published on or after July 20, 2010 (please
provide us email acceptance or online version). A small number of short oral or
poster presentations is available and will be allocated at the discretion of
scientific Program Committee. Decision criteria are the impact of the work on
the field, the likelihood that the study would be of interest to the InCoB
audience and the relevance of the research to bioinformatics and application to
molecular and medical sciences.
4. TUTORIAL VIDEOS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 01 JULY 2010 ACCEPTANCE: 30 JULY 2010
InCoB2010 will feature shortly before and after the conference virtual
e-learning sessions on new and emerging, cutting-edge topics. Authors for
accepted tutorials agree to be available for feedback and potential questions
fielded by e-mail in the period from Sep 20-Oct 19, 2010. For details see
Submissions/Guidelines at conference website. Tutorial providers who wish to
attend InCoB2010 are required to register.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
All submissions will be via EasyChair at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob2010
Please contact Kenta Nakai (knakai -at- ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp) or Christian
Schoenbach (schoen -at- bio.kyutech.ac.jp) for any queries (replace
-at- with @).
5. APBioNet Annual General Meeting The AGM of APBioNet will traditionally be
held in InCoB2010 during the lunch break on Sep 27, 2010.
We look forward to your active participation! Please feel free to pass on this
email to colleagues who might be interested in this meeting.
With best wishes,
Shoba Ranganathan President, APBioNet
Kenta Nakai University of Tokyo, PC Co-Chair
Christian Schoenbach, PC Co-Chair Kyushu Institute of Technology
2. INBIX 2010
As you are all aware that Inbix '10 is to be scheduled on February 12-13 and
some of you, as evident from umpteen e mails we get, must be wondering how good
would be to attend such virtual conference on Bioinformatics:
http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Inbix10
We feel several reasons do exist and we recommend you NOT to miss the chance:
ONE, it's online (virtual) and you gotta save lots of time and energy, sitting
in your home/work etc. If you are a group of 10 or more you will have a
discounted registration fee. Furthermore, the registration is just 500 INR or
10 USD.
TWO, you will have the chance to go through the recorded presentations incase
you run out of time or don't have time to attend a particular event/talk.
THREE, You will have impeccable chance to chat with the biggies, some of them
who have been co-founders of Internet, bioinformatics to systems biology etc.
Could you do it in your life time, or per se get a chance to meet such prolific
speakers in the near future? Who knows? Why not grab this opportunity?
FOUR, you know what ? 50% of the collaborations do gain momentum only through
attending the conferences, symposia etc. Why not exchange your ideas, thoughts,
gain collaboration through this ?
FIVE and most important, you don't get time to discover scientist within you
lest you meet people. And please think what ? Discussing this with people
virtually attending using the state-of-the-art logistics etc would mean that
your ideas are shared in real time,
Looking forward to have you for this FIRST virtual Indian conference. That said,
few late breaking registrations are still welcome if you haven't registered for
the one.
All the best and sincere apologies for dubious/cross post, if any.
Prash for Inbix '10 organizers
Prashanth Suravajhala http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/prash
Have you registered for the first virtual Indian Bioinformatics conference ?
http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Inbix10
3. Call for Papers, ACM-BCB 2010
Call for Papers and Proposals ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (ACM-BCB 2010)
August 2-4, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2010
ACM is pleased to announce that it has taken over sponsorship of the former
International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, and
Intelligent Computing (IJCBS), and will be holding the newly renamed
International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB)
in August 2010 in Niagara Falls, NY. This conference builds on the success of
IJCBS 2009 in Shanghai, and is the start of ACM ’s efforts to better support the
bioinformatics and computational biology community.
We invite you to submit papers with unpublished, original research describing
recent advances on all aspects of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. All
papers will undergo peer review by the conference program committee; accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings (in CD) and in the ACM
Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend their
papers for submission to several journals.
Papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see
ACM templates <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers should be
submitted via the link (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BCB2010/).
The topics of relevance for the conference papers include but are not limited to
the following:
• Assembly algorithms for the next generation sequencing
• Genome annotations via mass spectrometry
• Gene discovery and protein function prediction
• Functional genomics algorithms for high throughput data generation methods
• DNA and protein motif discovery
• Models of gene expression regulation at RNA level
• Algorithms for comparative and evolutionary genomics
• Molecular evolution and phylogeny reconstruction
• Multiple genome alignment
• Computational genomics for plant and animal genomes
• Engineering of bioinformatic databases
• Models of gene expression networks
• Computational proteomics and methabolomics
• Prediction of protein-protein interactions
• Protein structure prediction and molecular dynamics
• Visualization of biomolecular and cellular structure,
dynamics and interactions
• Modeling of methabolic pathways
• Computational epigenomics
• Models of cellular and multicellular systems
• Prediction of cellular network dynamics from incomplete information
• Clinical genomics and proteomics
• Data mining in biomolecular databases
• High performance computing for complex biomolecular and cellular systems
• Biomedical imaging
Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops:
We also invite you to submit tutorial/workshop proposals focusing on problems
and new challenges of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Submit the
proposals by e-mail to Tutorial/Workshop Chairs.
Key Dates
• Paper Submission deadline Feb 15, 2010
• Author Notification April 15, 2010
• Workshop proposal Jan. 1, 2010
• Tutorial Proposal Jan. 1, 2010
• Conference Date 2-4 August, 2010
Organizing Committee (Please see website)
4. Upcoming ISCB-affiliated conferences
APBioNet is an official affiliate and partner of the International Society for
Computational Biology (ISCB). Please note the following upcoming conferences
affiliated with ISCB:
• ISCB Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences
(CSHALS 2010),
February 24-26, 2010 in Cambridge/Boston, MA, USA
• ISCB Latin America, March 13 - 16, 2010, Montevideo, Uruguay
• ISMB 2010 July 11 - July 13, 2010, Boston, Massachusettes, USA
For more information see http://www.iscb.org
5. Disclaimer
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Additional information on APBioNet is available at http://www.apbionet.org
Prashanth Suravajhala
http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/prash
Just 'Inbix'ed: The first virtual Indian Bioinformatics conference (Inbix'10) :
http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Inbix10