Call for Papers: Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB2008)
THE SYMPOSIUM:
"Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics" (BSB) is the new name for the
Brazilian Workshop on Bioinformatics (WOB). Previous editions of WOB
were in 2002 (Gramado, RS), 2003 (Macae, RJ), and 2004 (Brasilia, DF).
The first edition of BSB was in 2005 (São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul),
while the second was in Angra dos Reis in 2007. All editions of WOB and
BSB are sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) . Proceedings
of BSB2005 and BSB 2007 were published by Springer as Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics.
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2008 invites you to submit
papers on COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, BIOINFORMATICS and APPLICATIONS.
This multidisciplinary symposium provides a general forum for
presentation and discussion of original research on computational
biology and bioinformatics. BSB 2008 aims to attract contributions from
academic and industrial researchers, both in computer science,
mathematics and statistics as well as in life sciences (molecular
biology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, medicine, microbiology and
others).
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Molecular Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching
- Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data
Mining - Biomedical Text Mining
- Structural and Functional Genomics
- Comparative Genomics
- Protein Structure and Modeling
- Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression
- Gene and Molecular Networks
- Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
- Computational Systems Biology
- Computational Proteomics
- Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
- Algorithms for problems in computational biology
- Applications on molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine,
microbiology and others.
This year BSB will have a special track on multiagent systems in
computational biology and bioinformatics. Applications on distributed
information gathering, distributed annotation systems, and other uses of
autonomous agents and multiagent systems are welcome. More details will
be posted soon.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: March 7, 2008, midnight GMT
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 9, 2008
Deadline for final paper versions: May 23, 2008, midnight GMT
Conference: August 18-20, 2008 (followed
by a school on bioinformatics from 21 to 23 of August)
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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
BSB2008 will accept two kinds of contributions: full papers or extended
abstracts, on three tracks: i) computational biology and bioinformatics,
ii) applications, and iii) multiagent systems applications on
computational biology and bioinformatics. Full papers may have up to 12
pages; extended abstracts can have at most 4 pages.
Accepted full papers are expected to be presented orally during the
symposium. Extended abstract authors will present their work in a poster
during the symposium.
The program committee may acccept as "extended abstract" a paper
originally submitted as full. Authors of such submissions will have the
choice of accepting this decision and modifying their manuscript
accordingly, or retracting the submission.
Conference proceedings (including accepted full papers and extended
abstracts) will be published. At this point the program committee is
starting negotiations with Springer in order to publish the proceedings
in the series LNBI as in 2005 and 2007.
There will be a "best paper award".
Submissions must be done electronically. The address for upload will be
announced soon.
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MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
ALL manuscripts MUST be written in ENGLISH and include an abstract.
The format to be used is "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS). All
the explanations and necessary files for this format can be found at
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
In this site, information and files for authors using both TeX/LaTeX and
MS Word can be found. We urge all prospective authors to download the
necessary files from this site as they prepare their submissions for BSB
2008; old versions of the LNCS style files may cause us problems.
For full papers, manuscript length (including all figures, tables, and
references) should not exceed 12 pages.
For extended abstracts, manuscript length (including all figures,
tables, and references) should not exceed 4 pages.
Manuscripts that deviate from these guidelines may risk rejection
without consideration of scientific merit.
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GENERAL CHAIRS
BSB 2008 General Coordination and Local Organizing Committee:
André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho - Chair
Ana Carolina Lorena and Luis Paulo B. Scott (UFABC), Katti Faceli
(USP/São Carlos) - Local Organizers
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BSB 2008 Program Co-chairs (alphabetical order)
Ana L. C. Bazzan (UFRGS, Brazil)
Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin)
Natalia Martins (Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazil)
Program Committee
Name Affiliation
Aaron Cohen Oregon Health and Science University
Adelinde Uhrmacher University of Rostock
Adelmo Cechin UNISINOS Alba Melo Universidade de Brasilia
Alberto Apostolico Georgia Tech Alberto Dávila Fiocruz
Alexandre Caetano Embrapa
Ana Freitas Technical University of Lisbon
Antonio Miranda Fundação Osvaldo Cruz
Bernard Maigret edam, uhp-nancy
Carlos Eduardo Ferreira USP
Carlos Henrique
Inacio Ramos UNICAMP
Celia Ralha University of Brasilia
David Sankoff University of Ottawa
Dominique Cellier Université de Rouen
Edson Cáceres UFMS
Emanuela Merelli Università di Camerino
Fernando Von Zuben University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Frank DiMaio University of Washington
Gad Landau University of Haifa
Gunnar Klau Freie Universität Berlin
Irene Ong University of Wisconsin Madison
Joao Setubal Virginia Tech
José Carlos Mombach UFRGS
Karl Tuyls University of Maastricht Katia Guimaraes
NCBI/NLM/NIH (USA) and Cin/UFPE (Brazil)
Marcelo Brigido Universidade de Brasília
Marcelo Santoro Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Marcilio de Souto Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Marie-Dominique Devignes LORIA - France
Marta Mattoso COPPE/UFRJ
Melissa Lemos PUC-Rio
Nadia Pisanti University of Pisa
Nalvo Almeida Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
Ney Lemke IBB Unesp
Osmar Norberto de Souza Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS
Paulo Moscato University of Newcastle
Ryan Lilien University of Toronto
Satoru Miyano The University of Tokyo
Siang Song Universidade de São Paulo
Wellington Martins Universidade Católica de Goiás
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STEERING COMMITTEE
Maria Emilia M. T. Walter - UnB
Sérgio Lifschitz - PUC/RJ
José Carlos Mombach - UFSM
João Carlos Setubal - VBI
Alberto Davila - Fiocruz/RJ
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VENUE:
BSB 2008 is organized by the UFABC, Brazil. It will be held in Santo
Andre, Brazil.
Santo André is one of the cities that integrate the São Paulo
Metropolitan area, which includes the biggest Brazilian city, São Paulo.
Although it is mainly urban, Santo André has eleven parks, including an
area where the Atlantic Forest is preserved and may be visited. Another
attraction is the historic district of Paranapiacaba, which was
originally an English village in the 19th century.
"Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics" (BSB) is the new name for the
Brazilian Workshop on Bioinformatics (WOB). Previous editions of WOB
were in 2002 (Gramado, RS), 2003 (Macae, RJ), and 2004 (Brasilia, DF).
The first edition of BSB was in 2005 (São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul),
while the second was in Angra dos Reis in 2007. All editions of WOB and
BSB are sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) . Proceedings
of BSB2005 and BSB 2007 were published by Springer as Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics.
-----
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2008 invites you to submit
papers on COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, BIOINFORMATICS and APPLICATIONS.
This multidisciplinary symposium provides a general forum for
presentation and discussion of original research on computational
biology and bioinformatics. BSB 2008 aims to attract contributions from
academic and industrial researchers, both in computer science,
mathematics and statistics as well as in life sciences (molecular
biology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, medicine, microbiology and
others).
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Molecular Sequence Analysis, Motifs, and Pattern Matching
- Biological Databases, Data Management, Data Integration, and Data
Mining - Biomedical Text Mining
- Structural and Functional Genomics
- Comparative Genomics
- Protein Structure and Modeling
- Gene Identification, Regulation and Expression
- Gene and Molecular Networks
- Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
- Computational Systems Biology
- Computational Proteomics
- Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
- Algorithms for problems in computational biology
- Applications on molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine,
microbiology and others.
This year BSB will have a special track on multiagent systems in
computational biology and bioinformatics. Applications on distributed
information gathering, distributed annotation systems, and other uses of
autonomous agents and multiagent systems are welcome. More details will
be posted soon.
-----
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: March 7, 2008, midnight GMT
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 9, 2008
Deadline for final paper versions: May 23, 2008, midnight GMT
Conference: August 18-20, 2008 (followed
by a school on bioinformatics from 21 to 23 of August)
-----
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
BSB2008 will accept two kinds of contributions: full papers or extended
abstracts, on three tracks: i) computational biology and bioinformatics,
ii) applications, and iii) multiagent systems applications on
computational biology and bioinformatics. Full papers may have up to 12
pages; extended abstracts can have at most 4 pages.
Accepted full papers are expected to be presented orally during the
symposium. Extended abstract authors will present their work in a poster
during the symposium.
The program committee may acccept as "extended abstract" a paper
originally submitted as full. Authors of such submissions will have the
choice of accepting this decision and modifying their manuscript
accordingly, or retracting the submission.
Conference proceedings (including accepted full papers and extended
abstracts) will be published. At this point the program committee is
starting negotiations with Springer in order to publish the proceedings
in the series LNBI as in 2005 and 2007.
There will be a "best paper award".
Submissions must be done electronically. The address for upload will be
announced soon.
-----
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
ALL manuscripts MUST be written in ENGLISH and include an abstract.
The format to be used is "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS). All
the explanations and necessary files for this format can be found at
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
In this site, information and files for authors using both TeX/LaTeX and
MS Word can be found. We urge all prospective authors to download the
necessary files from this site as they prepare their submissions for BSB
2008; old versions of the LNCS style files may cause us problems.
For full papers, manuscript length (including all figures, tables, and
references) should not exceed 12 pages.
For extended abstracts, manuscript length (including all figures,
tables, and references) should not exceed 4 pages.
Manuscripts that deviate from these guidelines may risk rejection
without consideration of scientific merit.
-----
GENERAL CHAIRS
BSB 2008 General Coordination and Local Organizing Committee:
André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho - Chair
Ana Carolina Lorena and Luis Paulo B. Scott (UFABC), Katti Faceli
(USP/São Carlos) - Local Organizers
------
BSB 2008 Program Co-chairs (alphabetical order)
Ana L. C. Bazzan (UFRGS, Brazil)
Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin)
Natalia Martins (Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazil)
Program Committee
Name Affiliation
Aaron Cohen Oregon Health and Science University
Adelinde Uhrmacher University of Rostock
Adelmo Cechin UNISINOS Alba Melo Universidade de Brasilia
Alberto Apostolico Georgia Tech Alberto Dávila Fiocruz
Alexandre Caetano Embrapa
Ana Freitas Technical University of Lisbon
Antonio Miranda Fundação Osvaldo Cruz
Bernard Maigret edam, uhp-nancy
Carlos Eduardo Ferreira USP
Carlos Henrique
Inacio Ramos UNICAMP
Celia Ralha University of Brasilia
David Sankoff University of Ottawa
Dominique Cellier Université de Rouen
Edson Cáceres UFMS
Emanuela Merelli Università di Camerino
Fernando Von Zuben University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Frank DiMaio University of Washington
Gad Landau University of Haifa
Gunnar Klau Freie Universität Berlin
Irene Ong University of Wisconsin Madison
Joao Setubal Virginia Tech
José Carlos Mombach UFRGS
Karl Tuyls University of Maastricht Katia Guimaraes
NCBI/NLM/NIH (USA) and Cin/UFPE (Brazil)
Marcelo Brigido Universidade de Brasília
Marcelo Santoro Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Marcilio de Souto Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Marie-Dominique Devignes LORIA - France
Marta Mattoso COPPE/UFRJ
Melissa Lemos PUC-Rio
Nadia Pisanti University of Pisa
Nalvo Almeida Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
Ney Lemke IBB Unesp
Osmar Norberto de Souza Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS
Paulo Moscato University of Newcastle
Ryan Lilien University of Toronto
Satoru Miyano The University of Tokyo
Siang Song Universidade de São Paulo
Wellington Martins Universidade Católica de Goiás
-----
STEERING COMMITTEE
Maria Emilia M. T. Walter - UnB
Sérgio Lifschitz - PUC/RJ
José Carlos Mombach - UFSM
João Carlos Setubal - VBI
Alberto Davila - Fiocruz/RJ
-----
VENUE:
BSB 2008 is organized by the UFABC, Brazil. It will be held in Santo
Andre, Brazil.
Santo André is one of the cities that integrate the São Paulo
Metropolitan area, which includes the biggest Brazilian city, São Paulo.
Although it is mainly urban, Santo André has eleven parks, including an
area where the Atlantic Forest is preserved and may be visited. Another
attraction is the historic district of Paranapiacaba, which was
originally an English village in the 19th century.
