[Lhs-biohacking] Fwd: 2nd CfP: 8th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) - August 16-18, 2016

[Tom Hodder]

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From: Harold Fellermann <harold.f...@ncl.ac.uk>
Date: 2 April 2016 at 15:47
Subject: 2nd CfP: 8th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) - August 16-18, 2016
To: iwbda...@lists.bio-design-automation.org


Call for Papers - Deadline April 15, 2016

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8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIO-DESIGN AUTOMATION
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, August 16-18, 2016
http://www.iwbdaconf.org/2016
Flyer information: http://www.iwbdaconf.org/2016/docs/IWBDA_2016_CFP.pdf


The Eighth International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) at
Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK will bring together researchers from the
synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities to
discuss concepts, methodologies and software tools for the computational
analysis and synthesis of biological systems. IWBDA offers a forum for
cross-disciplinary discussion, with the aim of seeding and fostering
collaboration between the biological and the design automation research
communities. This year’s IWBDA will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary
Computing and Complex BioSystems (ICOS) research group, Newcastle
University.

Topics of interest include
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* Design methodologies for synthetic biology.
* Standardization of biological components.
* Automated assembly techniques.
* Computer-aided modeling and abstraction techniques.
* Engineering methods inspired by biology.
* Domain specific languages for synthetic biology.
* Data exchange standards and models for synthetic biology.

This year’s IWBDA will host the BDAthlon programming contest, where
teams are given a set of programming challenges and then work to solve
these challenges. In addition, there will be a satellite workshop on the
Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL).


Key Dates
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* Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2016
* Scholarship application due: April 30, 2016
* Abstract and scholarship notification: May 13, 2016
* BDAthlon team application due: May 20, 2016
* SBOL workshop: August 15, 2016
* BDAthlon Competition: August 16, 2016
* Main IWBDA workshop: August 17-18, 2016

Registration will be open soon.


Abstract submission
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Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be two pages long,
following ACM SIG Proceedings format. Detailed instructions can be found
at: http://www.iwbdaconf.org/


ACS Synthetic Biology IWBDA 2016 Special Issue
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All attendees will also be invited to submit to ACS Synthetic Biology
“IWBDA 2016” Special Issue. ACS Synthetic Biology has the highest
editorial standards, offers rapid publication of your research findings
and imposes NO author submission, page, color, or cover art charges. We
are looking for high quality submissions, for peer-review, as either
short Letters or full-length Articles. The submission deadline will be
announced soon.


Please feel free to contact the organizers with questions at:
iwbda...@lists.bio-design-automation.org

IWBDA is organized by the non-profit Bio-Design Automation Consortium
(BDAC).