Last Call for Papers WABI 2008
WABI 2008
8th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI)
September 15-17, 2008
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 12, 2008
Notification to authors: June 4, 2008
Final version due: June 18, 2008
Workshop: September 15-17, 2008
Scope
All research on algorithmic work in bioinformatics and systems biology. The emphasis is on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.
Topic
Original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) are solicited in all aspects of algorithms in bioinformatics, including, but not limited to:
Exact, approximate, and machine-learning algorithms for sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment and assembly, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression, pathways, gene networks, proteomics, functional genomics, and drug design.
High-performance computing approaches to computationally hard learning and optimization problems in bioinformatics.
Methods, software, and dataset repositories for development and testing of such algorithms and their underlying models.
Submissions
Submissions must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and not exceed 12 pp. Each paper must contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers.
Electronic submission is required; the submission url is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2008. In case of problems, authors may, by prior arrangement, email a PDF file to the chairs, K. A. Crandall (Keith_Crandall [at] byu [dot] edu) or J. Lagergren (jensl [at] csc [dot] kth [dot] se).
Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors notify the program chairs; if published in a journal before the conference date, such a contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI proceedings.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics; papers will be allotted 12 pages. Previous proceedings of WABI have appeared in LNCS/LNBI series.
Keynote Speakers
Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Program Committee
Vineet Bafna, UCSD, USA
Dan Brown U. Waterloo, Canada
David Bryant, U. Auckland, New Zeeland
Benny Chor, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mark Clement, BYU, USA
Keith A. Crandall (co-chair), BYU, USA
Miklos Csuros, U. Montreal, Canada
Aaron Darling U. Queensland, Australia
Matt Dyer, Virginia Tech, USA
Nadia El-Mabrouk, U. Montreal, Canada
Eleazar Eskin, UCLA, USA
Olivier Gascuel, LIRMM-CNRS, France
Roderico Guigo, U. Barcelona, Spain
Eran Halperin, Berkeley, USA
Arndt Von Haeseler, U. Vienna, Austria
Daniel Huson, U. T\”ubingen, Germany
John Kececioglu U. Arizona, USA
Jens Lagergren (co-chair), KTH, Sweden
Jim Leebens-Mack, U. Georgia, USA
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA
Istvan Miklos, UPPS, Hungary
Bernard Moret, , EPFL, Switzerland
Luay Nakhleh Rice U., USA
Uwe Ohler, Duke U., USA
Laxmi Parida, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Ron Pinter, Technion, Israel
David Posada, U. Vigo, Spain
Ben Raphael, UCSD, USA
Knut Reinert, Freie U. Berlin, Germany
Allen Rodrigo, U. Auckland, New Zeeland
David Sankoff, U. Ottawa, Canada
Adam Siepel, Cornell U., USA
Mona Singh, Princeton U., USA
Saurabh Sinha, UIUC, USA
Jens Stoye, U. Bielefeld, Germany
Glenn Tesler, UCSD, USA
Esko Ukkonen, Helsinki, Finland
Steve Woolley Washington U., USA
Christopher Workman, DTU, Denmark
8th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI)
September 15-17, 2008
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 12, 2008
Notification to authors: June 4, 2008
Final version due: June 18, 2008
Workshop: September 15-17, 2008
Scope
All research on algorithmic work in bioinformatics and systems biology. The emphasis is on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.
Topic
Original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) are solicited in all aspects of algorithms in bioinformatics, including, but not limited to:
Exact, approximate, and machine-learning algorithms for sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment and assembly, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression, pathways, gene networks, proteomics, functional genomics, and drug design.
High-performance computing approaches to computationally hard learning and optimization problems in bioinformatics.
Methods, software, and dataset repositories for development and testing of such algorithms and their underlying models.
Submissions
Submissions must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and not exceed 12 pp. Each paper must contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers.
Electronic submission is required; the submission url is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2008. In case of problems, authors may, by prior arrangement, email a PDF file to the chairs, K. A. Crandall (Keith_Crandall [at] byu [dot] edu) or J. Lagergren (jensl [at] csc [dot] kth [dot] se).
Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors notify the program chairs; if published in a journal before the conference date, such a contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI proceedings.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics; papers will be allotted 12 pages. Previous proceedings of WABI have appeared in LNCS/LNBI series.
Keynote Speakers
Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Program Committee
Vineet Bafna, UCSD, USA
Dan Brown U. Waterloo, Canada
David Bryant, U. Auckland, New Zeeland
Benny Chor, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mark Clement, BYU, USA
Keith A. Crandall (co-chair), BYU, USA
Miklos Csuros, U. Montreal, Canada
Aaron Darling U. Queensland, Australia
Matt Dyer, Virginia Tech, USA
Nadia El-Mabrouk, U. Montreal, Canada
Eleazar Eskin, UCLA, USA
Olivier Gascuel, LIRMM-CNRS, France
Roderico Guigo, U. Barcelona, Spain
Eran Halperin, Berkeley, USA
Arndt Von Haeseler, U. Vienna, Austria
Daniel Huson, U. T\”ubingen, Germany
John Kececioglu U. Arizona, USA
Jens Lagergren (co-chair), KTH, Sweden
Jim Leebens-Mack, U. Georgia, USA
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA
Istvan Miklos, UPPS, Hungary
Bernard Moret, , EPFL, Switzerland
Luay Nakhleh Rice U., USA
Uwe Ohler, Duke U., USA
Laxmi Parida, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Ron Pinter, Technion, Israel
David Posada, U. Vigo, Spain
Ben Raphael, UCSD, USA
Knut Reinert, Freie U. Berlin, Germany
Allen Rodrigo, U. Auckland, New Zeeland
David Sankoff, U. Ottawa, Canada
Adam Siepel, Cornell U., USA
Mona Singh, Princeton U., USA
Saurabh Sinha, UIUC, USA
Jens Stoye, U. Bielefeld, Germany
Glenn Tesler, UCSD, USA
Esko Ukkonen, Helsinki, Finland
Steve Woolley Washington U., USA
Christopher Workman, DTU, Denmark
