BICoB2009 -- new deadlines

[Prashanth Suravajhala]

CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
April 8-10, 2009
Holiday Inn Downtown-Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
http://bicob.engr.uconn.edu/bicob/


Computational techniques have already enabled unprecedented advances in
modern biology and medicine. This continues to be a vibrant research area
with broadening of computational techniques and new emerging challenges. The
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) conference is thus
established by the ISCA to promote the advancement of computing techniques
and their application to life sciences. The inaugural BICoB conference will
feature original unpublished research in all areas of bio-informatics and
computational biology, and covering the entire spectrum of underlying
computational techniques/models/paradigms. The conference also includes a
BEST PAPER AWARD given for a paper presented at the conference. The topics
of interest include (and are not limited to):

- Genome analysis: Genome assembly, genome and chromosome annotation, gene
finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis and comparative genomics.

- Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and
clustering, function prediction, motif discovery, functional site
recognition in protein, RNA and DNA sequences.

- Phylogenetics: Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution, comparative
biological methods, population genetics.

- Structural Bioinformatics: Structure matching, prediction, analysis and
comparison; methods and tools for docking; protein design.

- Analysis of high-throughput biological data: Microarrays (nucleic acid,
protein, array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE, MPSS,
proteomics, mass spectrometry.

- Genetics and population analysis: Linkage analysis, association analysis,
population simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, genotype calling.

- Systems biology: Systems approaches to molecular biology, multiscale
modeling, pathways,gene networks.


Instructions to Authors

Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (PDF only). Conference
proceedings will be published by Springer in LNCS/LNBI, Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics. Papers should be formatted using Springer-Verlag format
templates (www.springer.com/lncs). A full paper, including title, author's
name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax and email of the
principal author, should be submitted before November 1, 2008 at the
following web site:

https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?ConID=85 .

The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will
appear in the Proceedings. Maximum paper length for the proceedings is 12
pages.

IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper Submission: November 14, 2008 (new deadline).
Notification of Acceptance: December 22, 2008.
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper: January 10, 2009.


Conference Chair:
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut

Program Co-Chairs:
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore

STEERING COMMITTEE
Reda A. Ammar, U. of Connecticut
Tao Jiang, U. of California, Riverside
Vipin Kumar, U. of Minnesota
Ming Li, U. of Waterloo
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, U. of Connecticut
John Reif, Duke University
Sartaj Sahni, U. of Florida

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Ian Greenshields, U. of Connecticut
Chun-Hsi Huang, U. of Connecticut

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Richa Agarwala, National Inst. of Health
Yutaka Akiyama, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.
Ziv Bar-Joseph, Carnegie Mellon U.
Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Indian Inst. of Science
Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan U.
Jake Chen, Indiana U.
Francis Y.L. Chin, Hong Kong U.
Bhaskar Dasgupta, U. of Illinois, Chicago
Scott J. Emrich, U. of Notre Dame
Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State U.
Vladimir Filkov, U. of California, Davis
Dmitrij Frishman, Tech. Univ. of Munich
Terry Gaasterland, UCSD
Gaston Gonnet, ETH Zurich
Osamu Gotoh, Kyoto U.
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica
Ming-Yang Kao, Northwestern U.
Marek Karpinski, U. of Bonn
George Karypis, U. of Minnesota
Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan U.
Bin Ma, U. of Waterloo
Ion Mandoiu, U. of Connecticut
Shinichi Morishita, U. of Tokyo
Giri Narasimhan, Florida International U.
Enno Ohlebusch, U. of Ulm
Yi Pan, Georgia State U.
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U.
Prabakaran Ponraj, Duke U.
Mihai Pop, U. of Maryland
David Posada, U. of Vigo, Spain
Ben Raphael, Brown U.
Knut Reinert, Freie U. Berlin
Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center
Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Mona Singh, Princeton U.
Wing-Kin Sung, National U. of Singapore
Sing-Hoi Sze, Texas A&M U.
Jerzy Tiuryn, Warsaw U.
Ugo Vaccaro, U. di Salerno
Li-San Wang, U. of Pennsylvania
Yufeng Wu, U. of Connecticut
Dong Xu, U. of Missouri, Columbia
Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State U.

--
Prashanth Suravajhala, PhD fellow
Systems Biologist
CDAC, Pune, India
http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/Prashanth_Suravajhala

E mail: pr...@bioinformatics.org

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