CALL FOR PAPERS
8th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications
May 21-23, 2012, Dallas,Texas
The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. Submissions presenting original research are solicited in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Biomedical databases and data integration
* Biomolecular imaging
* Bio-ontologies
* Comparative genomics
* Computational genetic epidemiology
* Computational proteomics
* Data mining and visualization
* Gene expression analysis
* Genome analysis
* High-performance bio-computing
* High-throughput sequencing data analysis
* Molecular evolution
* Molecular modeling and simulation
* Pattern discovery and classification
* Population genetics
* Software tools and applications
* Structural biology
* Systems biology
We seek two categories of submissions: extended abstracts of up to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format, and short abstracts of up to 4 pages. Both types of submissions must be made electronically by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbra2012. Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the symposium.
Accepted extended abstracts will be published prior to the symposium in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series and presented orally at the symposium. Accepted short abstracts will be published online and on CD-ROM and selected for either oral or poster presentation. As in previous years, full versions of selected extended abstracts presented at the symposium will be invited to a peer-reviewed special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The authors of remaining extended and short abstracts will be invited to submit full versions to a peer-reviewed volume to be published after the symposium in BMC Bioinformatics.
KEY DATES
Extended Abstracts Short Abstracts
(12 pages) (4 pages)
Submission deadline February 6, 2012 April 9, 2012
Notification of acceptance March 5, 2012 April 16, 2012
Final version due March 15, 2012 April 23, 2012
STEERING COMMITTEE
Dan Gusfield (UC Davis)
Ion Mandoiu (UConn)
Yi Pan (GSU), Chair Marie-France Sagot (INRIA)
Alexander Zelikovsky (GSU)
GENERAL CHAIRS
Ovidiu Daescu (UT Dallas)
Raj Sunderraman (GSU)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Leonidas Bleris (UT Dallas)
Ion Mandoiu (UConn)
Russell Schwartz (Carnegie Mellon)
Jianxin Wang (Central South Univ.)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Srinivas Aluru
Danny Barash
Robert Beiko
Anne Bergeron
Daniel Berrar
Paola Bonizzoni
Daniel Brown
Doina Caragea
Tien-Hao Chang
Chien-Yu Chen
Matteo Comin
Bhaskar Dasgupta
Douglas Densmore
Oliver Eulenstein
Guillaume Fertin
Vladimir Filkov
Jean Gao
Katia Guimaraes
Jiong Guo
Robert Harrison
Jieyue He
Steffen Heber
Jinling Huang
Lars Kaderali
Iyad Kanj
Yury Khudyakov
Danny Krizanc
Jing Li
Fenglou Mao
Osamu Maruyama
Li Min
Axel Mosig
Giri Narasimhan
Yi Pan
Laxmi Parida
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Andrei Paun
Itsik Pe'Er
Weiqun Peng
Nadia Pisanti
Maria Poptsova
Teresa Przytycka
Shoba Ranganathan
S. Cenk Sahinalp
Daniel Schwartz
Joao Setubal
Ileana Streinu
Wing-Kin Sung
Sing-Hoi Sze
Ilias Tagkopoulos
Gabriel Valiente
Stéphane Vialette
Li-San Wang
Lusheng Wang
Xiaowo Wang
Fangxiang Wu
Yufeng Wu
Zhen Xie
Zhenyu Xuan
Fa Zhang
Yanqing Zhang
Leming Zhou
