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Registration Open: Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology & Chemistry - A Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference

2009-11-17T08:33:09Z

Dear Colleague,

Registration is now open for the following Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference:

Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry: TACBAC 2010
http://advanced-courses-wellcome.msgfocus.com/c/1lro5yFog4dYysh

1st March - 3rd March 2010

Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

With the US National Institute of Health’s Molecular Library Initiative and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute’s chemogenomics and cheminformatics programmes, large-scale drug discovery and biological screening data have entered the public domain. We are also witnessing the first efforts to sequence individual human genomes, and are making impressive progress in understanding the genomes of some of the world’s most significant disease-causing organisms. Integration of genomic sequence information with proteomics and metabolomics data provides an unprecedented chance to systematically attack disease on a molecular level. Open access to bioinformatics and cheminformatics data also opens up exciting new opportunities for academic–industrial collaboration. TACBAC 2010 will bring together experts from both the biomedical and the computational domains to explore these novel developments, discuss how to overcome the major challenges, and create new opportunities for applying computational biology and chemistry to disease management and prevention.

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BICoB-2010 CFP - paper Deadline Extended: November 23, 2009

2009-11-11T15:56:52Z

Submission Deadline Extended: November 23, 2009

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BICoB-2010 - Call for Papers
http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/
<http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/>
2nd International Conference
on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB)
March 24 - 26, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Full paper Submission Deadline:...............................November
23, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: .....................................
December 23, 2009
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due:...... January 15, 2010

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 was established by the ISCA to
promote
the advancement of computing techniques and their application to life
sciences. T

he 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 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.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
BICoB welcomes submissions in all areas of computing with impact on life
sciences
including (but not limited to) algorithms, databases, languages,
systems, and high
performance computing. For example:
- Parallel and high-performance techniques
- Unifying computational techniques
- Data and image mining techniques
- Approximation and randomized algorithms and systems
- Computational biology on emerging architectures and hardware
accelerators
Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (PDF only). A full
paper, including
title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax
and email of the
principal author, should be submitted by November 23, 2009 at the
following web site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BICOB2010/
The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it
will appear in
the Proceedings which will be a maximum of 6 pages (+2 pages with
additional page
charge). ISCA double-column format will be used.
See http://www.isca-hq.org/sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf .
Latex users: http://www.isca-hq.org/Latex-format.htm
If you encounter any difficulties during submission or if you require
further information,
please contact: isca@....

Authors wishing to have their papers reviewed for possible publication
in the ISCA
Journal of Computers and Applications should send by postal mail or
email expanded
versions of their papers directly to the Editor, Prof. David Jeff
Jackson.
(See Instructions to Authors at: http://www.isca-hq.org/j-authr.htm )

................................................... IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper Submission Deadline:
......................................November 23, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:
............................................... December 23, 2009
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due:................ January 15,
2010

CONFERENCE CHAIR

George Karypis
University of Minnesota
karypis@...

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Hisham Al-Mubaid

University of Houston-Clear Lake
hisham@...

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and Their Applications
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International Speaker Line-up Announced for Pharma IQ's Next-Generation DNA Sequencing

2009-11-10T03:49:39Z

http://www.dnaevent.com/

Dear Colleague,

Today's Next-Generation DNA Sequencing systems are opening novel fields and
applications in biology studies and medical research. Beyond genomic
sequencing, of which there are now many successful results, the technology is
also allowing scientists to pursue:

- Personal genomics with detailed analysis of individual genome stretches
- Precise analysis of RNA transcripts for gene expression
- Genome-wide characterisation and profiling of mRNAs, small RNAs and
transcription factor regions
- Structure of chromatin and DNA methylation patterns
- Microbiology and metagenomics

At Pharma IQ's Next-Generation DNA Sequencing conference, January 18th - 20th
in London, you will share study and technology pilot results with peers on how
to utilise NGS systems to predict disease risk at genome level by using next-
generation systems to accurately scan and identify rare variants in genes,
short sequence repeats and CNPs.

You will also discuss with other principal investigators how they're evaluating
the right next generation approach for their research project, comparing deep
vs. wide, de novo vs. re-sequencing and conventional microarray platforms.

The international speaker panel includes:

- Dr Nicholas H. Bergman, Principal Investigator and Genomics Team Leader,
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
- Dr Nick Loman, Head of Bioinformatics, University of Birmingham
- Dr Daniel J. Turner, Head of Sequencing Technology Development, Wellcome
Trust Sanger Institute
- Dr Ina Vandenbroucke, Senior Scientist, Translational Genetics & Genomics,
Tibotec - Virco BVBA
- Dr Joris Veltman Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Centre
- Dr Bhupinder Bhullar , Laboratory Head, Biomedical Research, Novartis
- Dr Harma Feitsma, Research Scientist Molecular Diagnostics, Philips Research
Labs
- Dr Peter Verhasselt, Principal Scientist, Translational Genomics & Genetics,
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
- Guy Cochrane, Team Leader, European Nucleotide Archive Team, European
Bioinformatics Institute
- Roderic Guigo, Senior Group Leader, Genomic Regulations, Biomedical
Informatics, IMIM-Hospital del Mar
- Bernd Timmermmann, Next Generation Sequencing Service Group, Max Planck
Institute for Molecular Genetics

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from leading practitioners and technology
users. Download the brochure for further information about the agenda:
http://www.dnaevent.com/Event.aspx?id=234806

NGS systems are rapidly evolving. However many challenges remain, including the
development of robust protocols for generating sequencing libraries, building
effective new approaches to data-analysis and often a rethinking of
experimental design.

Sign up today for January's Next-Generation DNA Sequencing meeting to discuss
how to overcome these challenges with other practitioners.

If you sign up before 20th November 2009, you can SAVE up to 400 GBP off the
standard rates. Plus the first 10 academics to book on can take advantage of
registering for only 399 GBP (+VAT)! For further information on the savings you
could make, visit the website:
http://www.dnaevent.com/Event.aspx?id=234808

We look forward to meeting you in London in January.

Sincerely,

Courtney Becker-James
Conference Director
Pharma IQ

PS: If you know who this meeting is most relevant for, please forward it to
them so they have the opportunity to join their peers at this unique gathering!

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CIBCB 2010 Call For Papers

2009-10-30T09:44:33Z

Call for Papers: IEEE
CIBCB 2010

2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
2-5 May 2010, Montreal, Canada

IMPORTANT DATES:

Special Session Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009
Tutorial Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009
Paper submission deadline: 15 Dec. 2009
Author notification: 15 Feb. 2010
Camera-ready paper deadline: 15 Mar. 2010
Conference: 2-5 May 2010

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SCOPE:

This symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students
from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of
Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in
biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics,
bioengineering and related fields.

Computational Intelligence (CI) approaches includes artificial neural networks,
fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid approaches and other emerging
techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- high-throughput data analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, etc.)
- molecular docking and drug design
- RNA and protein folding and structure prediction
- metabolic pathway analysis
- analysis of large biological data sets
- single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis
- immuno- and chemo-informatics
- molecular evolution and phylogenetics
- bio and medical ontologies
- microRNA gene expression analysis
- molecular sequence alignment and analysis
- systems and synthetic biology
- emergent properties in complex biological system
- computational proteomics
- motif and signal detection
- medical image analysis and pattern recognition
- in-silico optimization of biological systems

The use of computational intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted
papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings and will be indexed in IEEE eXplore.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than
eight (8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and
references. Submission details can be found on the symposium web
site at: www.cibcb.org/CIBCB2010. Authors are expected to present their paper
at the symposium.

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS and TUTORIALS:

Consult the CIBCB'10 symposium web site for instructions on proposing a special
session or tutorial. Papers for special sessions must have significant
computational intelligence content.

LOCATION:

The symposium will take place at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal located in beautiful
downtown Montreal close to the University of Montreal and McGill University

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair L. Gwenn Volkert
Program Chair: Dan Ashlock
Technical Co-Chairs: Francesco Masulli
Mihail Popescu
Clare Bates Congdon
Publicity Chair: Sorin Draghici
Proceedings Chair: Chengpeng (Charlie) Bi
Finance Chair: Gary Fogel

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Direct your questions or requests for additional information to:

L. Gwenn Volkert Ð volkert@cs.kent.edu - CIBCB 2010 General Chair
or
Daniel Ashlock - dashlock@uoguelph.ca - CIBCB 2010 Program Chair

or visit:

http://www.cibcb.org/CIBCB10
http://www.cibcb.org/files/cibcb2010cfp.pdf

Register NOW for Small Molecule Bioactivity Resources: an EMBL-EBI hands on course

2009-10-22T09:22:35Z

Dear Colleague
Register NOW for Small Molecule Bioactivity Resources: an EMBL-EBI
hands on course
Organisers: John Overington, Anne Hersey, Vicky Schneider
Date - 25-29 January 2010
Venue - EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Registration deadline - 11 December 2009

Bursary Application deadline - 6 November 2009
Register
at [1]http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_100125_smallmolecul
es.html#about
This highly interdisciplinary course in next-generation publicly
available chemoinformatics tools is ideal for academics or industrial
researchers interested in drug discovery or for researchers looking to
progress from basic functional genomics to translational
research. Participants should have a degree in a biomedical
discipline. No previous training in bioinformatics is required. The
course will be highly interactive and will include problem solving
sessions each day. Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring ideas
for particular pieces of work to the addressed during these sessions.

What will you learn?

* Hands on training on searching public databases such as ChEMBL and
PubChem, for small molecules of biological interest.
* Using related bioinformatics databases and services (including
Ensembl, Uniprot, ArrayExpress and Zinc), that cross-reference
small molecule data.
* How to find out about the structure-activity relationships of
small bioactive molecules using ChEMBL.
* Selecting compounds to screen against novel targets and reference
standards.
* Optimising compound structures for target validation.

What will it cover?
* Overview of public domain chemical structure resources.
* The role of open science in drug discovery.
* Analysis and modulation of disease linked pathways.
* Tools and strategies to get the best from chemical and small
molecule databases.
* Target analysis and prioritisation of genomic data for drug
discovery.

Cost
The course tuition fees are subsidised by the Wellcome Trust for
scientists based in non-commercial institutions or Small-to-Medium
enterprises. The registration fee is £325.00 (£675.00 for other
commercial registrations).
Bursaries
There are a limited number of bursaries available for academic
participants only. These are awarded by the selection committee
according to merit. The bursary will cover the entire course fees
(including accomodation and subsistence) and a percentage of travel
costs (up to a reasonable maximum set by the selection committee) -
please indicate in your application a rough estimate of likely travel
costs.
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European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD
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Upcoming hands on training courses
([4]http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/):

25-29 January 2010: Small Molecule Bioactive Resources At The EBI
22-26 February 2010: Programmatic Access To Biological Databases (Perl)

References

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BICoB-2010 CFP - Submission Deadline: October 23, 2009

2009-09-30T14:07:48Z

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BICoB-2010 - Call for Papers
http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/
<http://sce.uhcl.edu/bicob10/>
2nd International Conference
on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB)
March 24 - 26, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Full paper Submission Deadline:
........................................October 23, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:
............................................... December 11, 2009
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due:................ January 8,
2010

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 was established by the ISCA to
promote
the advancement of computing techniques and their application to life
sciences. T

he 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 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.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

BICoB welcomes submissions in all areas of computing with impact on life
sciences
including (but not limited to) algorithms, databases, languages,
systems, and high
performance computing. For example:

- Parallel and high-performance techniques

- Unifying computational techniques

- Data and image mining techniques

- Approximation and randomized algorithms and systems

- Computational biology on emerging architectures and hardware
accelerators

Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (PDF only). A full
paper, including
title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax
and email of the
principal author, should be submitted by October 23, 2009 at the
following web site:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BICOB2010/

The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it
will appear in
the Proceedings which will be a maximum of 6 pages (+2 pages with
additional page
charge). ISCA double-column format will be used.

See:See http://www.isca-hq.org/sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf .

If you encounter any difficulties during submission or if you require
further information,
please contact: isca@....

Authors wishing to have their papers reviewed for possible publication
in the ISCA
Journal of Computers and Applications should send by postal mail or
email expanded
versions of their papers directly to the Editor, Prof. David Jeff
Jackson.

(See Instructions to Authors at: http://www.isca-hq.org/j-authr.htm )

................................................... IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper Submission Deadline:
..........................................October 23, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:
............................................... December 11, 2009
Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due:.....................
January 8, 2010

CONFERENCE CHAIR

George Karypis
University of Minnesota
karypis@...

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Hisham Al-Mubaid

University of Houston-Clear Lake
hisham@...

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International Society for Computers
and Their Applications
975 Walnut Street, Suite 132
Cary, NC 27511 USA
Phone: 919-467-5559
FAX: 919-467-3430
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[RIAO 2010] Call for Papers and Applications

2009-09-16T11:31:56Z

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Call for Papers and Applications
RIAO 2010 - 9th RIAO Conference
Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
28-30 April, 2010
Paris, France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
http://www.riao2010.org/

Important dates :
Paper submission deadline November 30, 2009
Notification to authors February 5, 2010
Camera-Ready copies due March 1, 2010
Conference dates April 28-30, 2010

History

This triannual international conference is the 9th RIAO conference.
Previous editions were held at Grenoble (1985), MIT (1988), Barcelona (1991), Rockefeller University (1994), Montreal (1997), Paris (2000), Avignon (2004), and Carnegie Mellon University (2007).
RIAO conferences have always treated robust and large-scale scientific and industrial solutions to information processing. The conferences are composed of peer-reviewed scientific sessions and demonstrations of innovative industrial applications and advanced research prototypes.

Scope of the Conference

Submissions are invited which present recent, original and unpublished research on the theme of RIAO 2010: adapting, personalizing and merging heterogeneous information.
Submissions may address one or more of the following subjects:

Formal Models, Theory
Information filtering
. Content based filtering
. Collaborative filtering
. Recommender systems
. Spam, protection of minors
Personalized IR and User modelling
. Adaptive IR
. Collaborative IR
. Interfaces
Information fusion
. Mash Ups
. Aggregated search
. Systems for watch, business decision
Web Search and Advertising
. Adversial IR
. Advertising
. Link analysis
Machine Learning for IR
. Learning to rank
. Probabilistic topic models
. All kinds of learning techniques applied to IR
Information extraction and natural language processing, multilinguality
. Summarization
. Question answering
. Entity/relation extraction
. Cross-Language IR, Machine translation for IR
Multimedia Information Retrieval
. Image IR
. Video IR
. Speech/audio IR
. Music IR, analysis of multimedia content
Applications
. Cultural heritage
. Trademark search
. Scientific media
. Bio-computing and medical
. Database offloading
Evaluation, benchmarking
Social networks
. Folksonomies, tagging
. Blogs
. Social search
. Communities
. Opinion and sentiment

Paper Submission

We welcome submissions from both research and industrial communities addressing the main conference themes.
Submitted papers must describe an unpublished origal work, emphasizing completed or advanced research, possibly with releted experiments. A parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the program committee.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, relevance, technical quality, and presentation.
Papers can be submitted in two categories: full papers and short papers, where full papers are appropriate for describing substantial research with related evaluations and short papers will typically describe ongoing research and preliminary results. All accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk and short papers will be presented as a poster.
Long papers must not exceed 12 pages (5000 words), in one column format, starting with an abstract. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (2500 words), in one column, starting with an abstract.
Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format or in PDF.
The conference proceedings will be available to conference attendees, and through the CID after the conference.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The RIAO conferences are meeting places for both scientific and industrial specialists in information retrieval.
The facilities allow to present high-level peer-reviewed scientific research conferences and prototypes and of innovative products, selected by a special call for innovative applications. The displayed products
are chosen uniquely on the basis of their innovativeness. The general topic of the Call for Applications is:

INNOVATIVE TOOLS PROVIDING PERSONNALIZED ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA AND/OR
MULTILINGUAL DATA.

Companies whose product fulfills the criteria of novelty and of innovativeness can fill in a submission document designed by the conference organizers that describes their submitted product. In addition to the submission document, product submitters will have to provide access to an online or CD version of the product that demonstrates the claimed innovative functionalities of the product.
Every chosen company will be provided with a demonstration space (including table and chair) free of charge. Each company may also be given a special time slot (15 minutes) to give a short presentation
about the product. Descriptions of the products demonstrated during RIAO 2010 will be published in the proceedings. The selected companies will also be invited to an event organized with Cap Digital business cluster
(http://www.capdigital.com) providing B2B meetings with top members of the cluster followed by a networking event at La Cantine coworking space
http://lacantine.org/

Program Chairs
Gabriella Pasi (Europe)
Tie-Yan Liu (Asia)
Prabhakar Raghavan (Americas)

Program committee:
Agosti Maristella, University of Padova, Italy
Amati Giambattista, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Amitay Einat, IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel
Bailey Alex, Google Switzerland GmbH, Switzerland
Berendt Bettina, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Boldi Paolo, Consigio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Bordogna Gloria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Boughanem Mohand, Université Paul Sabatier, France
Brisaboa Nieves, Universidad de la Coruna, Spain
Bruza Peter, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Bruzilovski Peter, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Chen Hsin-Hsi, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Clarke Charles L.A., University of Waterloo, Canada
Crestani Fabio, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Croft Bruce, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Currin Cathal, Dublin University, Ireland
de Rijke Maarten, University of Amsterdam, Netherland
Dumais Susan, Microsoft research, USA
Efthimiadis Efthimis N., University of Washington, USA
David A. Evans, JustSystems Evans Research Corporation
Fernandez-Luna Juan M., University of Granada, Spain
Fluhr Christian, Cadege, France
Gallinari Patrick, University of Paris 6, France
Gaussier Eric, Universit de Grenoble, France
Grefenstette Gregory, Exalead, France
Grossman David Adam, ITT, USA
Harman Donna, NIST, USA
Jarvelin Kalervo, University of Tampere, Finland
Joho Hideo, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jones Gareth, Dublin City University, United Kingdom
Jones Rosie, Yahoo! Inc., USA
Jose Joemon M, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Kando Noriko, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Lam Wai, University of Hong Kong, Hong-Kong
Li Yuefeng, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Liddy Liz, Syracuse University, USA
Lin Chin-Yew, Microsoft Research, China
Maarek Yoelle, Google (Haifa Engineering Center), Israel
Marchand-Maillet Stephane, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Melucci Massimo, Università di Padova, Italy
Mitra Mandar, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Moens Marie-Francine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Moffat Alistair, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mothe Josiane, IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, France
Murdock Vanessa, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Myaeng Sung Hyon, Information and Communication University, Korea
Nie Jian-Yun, University of Montreal, Canada
Nrnberger Andreas, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
Oard Douglas, University of Maryland, USA
Ounis Iadh, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Pasi Gabriella, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Peters Carol, Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (IEI) -CNR, Italy
Piwowarski Benjamin, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Quénot Georges, IMAG, France
Raghavan Prabhakar, Yahoo research, USA
Roelleke Thomas, Queen Mary University, United Kingdom
Ruthven Ian, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Sakai Tetsuya, NewsWatch, Japan
Shaoping Ma, Tsinghua University, China
Silvestri Fabrizio, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy
Smeaton Alan, Dublin City University, Ireland
Soulé-Dupuy Chantal, University of Toulouse 1, France
Vigna Sebastiano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Vinciarelli Alessandro, IDIAP, Switzerland
Wilkinson Ross, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Zaragoza Hugo, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Zweigenbaum Pierre, Limsi/CNRS, France

Application chairs:
Philippe Roy, Cap Digital, France (Chair)
Josiane Mothe, IRIT, France (co-Chair)

Application committee:
Irina Blomquist, Digibusiness, Finland
Marie Buhot Launay, ARD, France
Marie-Odile Charaudeau, Aproged, France
David Evans, JustSystems Evans Research, USA
Alain Garnier, Jamespot, France
Catherine Gouttas, Thalès, France
Fabrice Lacroix, Antidot, France
Agnès Lainé, CFI, France
Marc Michel Pic, Advestigo, France
Cyril Rollinde, Freelance, Pondichery, India
Bernard Schmid, Vienna IT Enterprises , Austria
Jacqueline Thomas, CFI, France

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Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, October 2009

2009-08-23T00:47:31Z

The online course, Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, from the
University of Manchester, will begin again in October 2009. Like all
our distance courses it is delivered in a Virtual Learning Environment,
which allows us to extend the classroom into the web. We use a range of
tools, such as bulletin boards, chat rooms and wikis, to support our
online teaching activities.

Each course, which is paced to suit those in full-time employment, runs
over 16 teaching weeks. Teaching and learning are focussed around
tutor-supported individual and group exercises. In this course,
participants discuss a tutorial problem for each section of the course,
and then submit solutions for feedback from the course tutor.

Week 1 Introduction to the course
Installation of software for network analysis

Weeks 2 and 3 Molecular networks in biology
Group discussion of models and modelling

Weeks 4 and 5 Standards for Systems Biology
Data sources and standards for network biology
Practical exploration of a molecular network

Weeks 6 and 7 Network properties
Practical exercise on network statistics

Weeks 8 and 9 Mapping microarray data to a network

Weeks 10 and 11 Independent work on network analysis

Weeks 12 and 13 Dynamic models
Further work on modelling formalisms
Practical exercise on a metabolic model

Weeks 14 to 16 Independent research for the second assessment

You will find further information here :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/BIOL61820.html and
the course application form is here :
https://elearn.cs.man.ac.uk/sts-tng/enrol.cgi If you have any
questions, or need advice on the other course options, please contact
Heather.Vincent@...

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Call for Papers: Computational Analysis of Biological Networks in Journal Advances in Bioinformatics

2009-06-05T07:59:26Z

Deadline: August 1, 2009

Computational Analysis of Biological Networks

Call for Papers

One of the fundamental goals of bioinformatics is to understand the
biological processes that are the driving forces behind organisms'
functions. Biological networks such as metabolic, gene regulatory, and
protein interaction networks show how various biochemical entities
interact with each other to perform vital functions that they cannot
perform alone. A critical common property of biological networks is that
although the individual entities of a pathway may have specific
functions, they play additional roles in the entire network by
communicating with other entities.

This Special Issue focuses on novel computational approaches and methods
for understanding biological networks. This issue will publish original,
high-quality research articles. High-risk/high-gain ideas for
understanding biological networks are welcome. Manuscripts should
include biological impact and validation as well as technical depth. The
topics that are included (but not limited to) in this issue are:

* Pathway reconstruction
* Comparison and querying of biological networks
* Annotation of functional subnetworks
* Motif discovery in networks
* Steady-state analysis of networks and the whole cell model
* Analysis of network-disease family relationships

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's
Author Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/abi/guidelines.html. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through
the journal manuscript tracking system at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due August 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews November 1, 2009
Publication Date February 1, 2010

Lead Guest Editor

* Tamer Kahveci <mailto:tamer@...>, Computer and
Information Sciences and Engineering Department, University of
Florida, FL 32610, USA

Guest Editors

* Tolga Can <mailto:tcan@...>, Department of Computer
Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey
* Limsoon Wong <mailto:wongls@...>, School of Computing,
National University of Singapore, Room 3-34, Building COM1, 13
Computing Drive, Singapore, Singapore 117417
* Zhongming Zhao <mailto:zzhao@...>, Virginia Commonwealth
University, VA 23284, USA

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Virginia Commonwealth University
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Phone: (804) 828-8129 Fax: (804) 828-1471
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{Disarmed} Systems Biology Symposium 25 - 26 June at Brunel University

2009-04-27T06:32:55Z

Symposium on Biological and Chemical Informatics for Health:

Foundations for Systems Biology

Brunel University, West London, UK

25-26 June 2009

Find out more and register for this free event here
http://bcih-sb.brunel.ac.uk

Integration of biological and chemical informatics presents a real
opportunity to address some of the most exciting and challenging issues
posed by systems biology. These diverse disciplines, and their interaction,
play a crucial role in addressing key issues in drug design and discovery,
environmental sustainability, health and disease processes, and disease
prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Join us for a two day symposium sponsored by the BBSRC and Brunel
University, where influential leaders in bioinformatics, chemoinformatics,
systems biology and health, will present the latest developments that are
helping to shape this interdisciplinary field. This symposium is open to
those working in the field, including academics, researchers, students and
industry and will provide an excellent environment for delegates to
participate in networking activities and developing collaborative,
interdisciplinary research partnerships.

We are delighted that the following have already agreed to speak at the
event:

Bioinformatics

Janet Thornton, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute

Marco Ramoni, Director of Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, Harvard Medical
School

Christine Orengo, Professor of Bioinformatics, University College London

Health

Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development and Chief
Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and NHS

Chemoinformatics

Peter Willett, Professor of Information Science, Sheffield University

Robert Glen, Director of Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics,
Cambridge University

Peter Johnson, Professor of Computational Chemistry, Leeds University

Systems Biology

Tom Kirkwood, Director of the Newcastle Centre for Integrated Systems
Biology of Ageing and Nutrition

Simon Gaskell, Vice-President for Research, Manchester University

Chris Rawlings, Head of Department of Biomathematics and Bioinformatics,
Rothamsted Research, BBSRC

David Gilbert, Head of School of Information Systems, Computing and
Mathematics, Brunel University

Colin Miles, Head of Systems Biology, BBSRC

Stephen Muggleton, Director of Modelling, Centre for Integrative Systems
Biology at Imperial College

Peter Bramley, Head of School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway London

For more details and free registration see: http://bcih-sb.brunel.ac.uk
<https://owa1.brunel.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://bcih-sb.brunel.a
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Prediction of guide strand of microRNAs

2009-04-10T09:22:24Z

Dear Colleagues
We have developed a method for predicting "guide strand of microRNAs
from its sequence and secondary structure" it is published in BMC
Bioinformatics see http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/105 .
Though it is developed to discriminate for guide and passenger strand
of miRNA but it can be used to design siRNA. I hope this information
will be useful for bioinformatics community.

With Regards

Raghava

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# Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India #
# Phone: +91-172-2690557, Fax: +91-172-2690632
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Call for Paper: International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics

2009-04-08T01:03:01Z

Dear Colleages,

We are writing to invite you to submit an article to the new
International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB):
http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb <http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb> .

The mission of IJKDB is to increase awareness of interesting and
challenging biomedical problems and to inspire new knowledge discovery
solutions which can be translated into further biological and clinical
studies. IJKDB provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of original
research articles on computational knowledge discovery methods as well
as discovery notes that report newly found biological discoveries using
computational techniques. In addition to the original research
articles, IJKDB emphasizes software and tools that exploit the knowledge
discovery techniques for biological problems, and databases that contain
useful biomedical data for the community. The journal also encompasses
reviews and tutorials on relevant computational and experimental
techniques for translational research and knowledge discovery in life
sciences. We seek well-motivated, cross-disciplinary papers useful for
researchers, practitioners, and academicians, mathematicians,
statisticians, and computer scientists involved in the many facets of
bioinformatics and translational research. Proposals for special issues,
especially on emerging topics, are also welcome.

IJKDB is available in both print and electronic form to subscribers of
the journal. The International Editorial Review Board of the journal
consists of well-known experts in various areas of bioinformatics, with
broad international representation. Please refer the attached Call for
Papers and journal web site (http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb
<http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb> ) for more information.

We look forward to your submissions. In addition, we will greatly
appreciate it if you can distribute the Call for Papers to your
colleagues, students and other community members and encourage them to
contribute to the journal. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Xiao-Li Li and See-Kiong Ng

Editors-in-Chief

International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB)

E-mail: xlli@...; skng@...

International Advisory Board

Philip E. Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA

Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University, Italy Satoru

Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan

Associated Editors

Alfonso Valencia, National Cancer Research Center, Spain

Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada

Zhang Aidong, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA

Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India

Eytan Domany, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal

Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan

Peter Clote, Boston College, USA

Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China

Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA

Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan

Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

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CFP CAIP'09: The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

2009-04-02T03:07:36Z

* We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once.
* PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. Many thanks!
* The submission deadline has been extended to 14th April 2009 accoridng to
a lot of requests.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and
Patterns (CAIP’09)
September 2-4, 2009, Münster, Germany

Scope:
CAIP is a series of biennial international conferences devoted to all
aspects of computer vision, image analysis and processing, pattern
recognition and related fields. It has been held since 1985 and the last
conference sites were Warsaw (2001), Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), and
Vienna (2007). Additional information about the CAIP conference series can
be found at: http://caip.eu.org/.

The proposed scope of CAIP’09 includes, but not limited to, the following
areas:
• 3D Vision
• 3D TV
• Biometrics
• Color and texture
• Document analysis
• Graph-based Methods
• Image and video indexing and database retrieval
• Image and video processing
• Image-based modeling
• Kernel methods
• Medical imaging
• Mobile multimedia
• Model-based vision approaches
• Motion Analysis
• Non-photorealistic animation and rendering
• Object recognition
• Performance evaluation
• Segmentation and grouping
• Shape representation and analysis
• Structural pattern recognition
• Tracking
• Applications

Paper Submission:
Papers must be formatted in the LNCS format. Paper submission instructions
can be found at conference website.

Publication:
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A
special issue with selected best papers will be published in Pattern
Recognition Journal.

Important Dates:
Paper submission: April 14, 2009
Author notification: May 25, 2009
Final manuscript due: June 10, 2009

Conference Chairs:
Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Münster, Germany
Nicolai Petkov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Publicity Chair:
Dacheng Tao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Steering Committee:
André Gagalowicz (F)
Reinhard Klette (NZ)
Walter Kropatsch (A)
Nicolai Petkov (NL)
Gerald Sommer (D)

Local Organization Committee:
Hildegard Brunstering
Daniel Abdala
Mohamed Dawood
Lucas Franek
Sergej Lewin
Kai Rothaus
Steffen Wachenfeld
Pakaket Wattuya

Conference Website:
http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/CAIP2009/

Inquiries:
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Singapore 639798.
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Phone: +65 6790 6250
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Bioinformatics Suite

2009-04-01T11:44:50Z

Dear Colleagues
Our group have developed number of webservers (http://
www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ ) over th\
e years. I got lot of request related to i) availability of source
code; ii) perl scripts\
used to build software; iii) standalone version of methods. In order
to help our bioinfo\
rmatics users particularly young developers who wish to develop
bioinformatics programs; f\
irst time we are releasing source code (written in PERL) for public. I
hope these perl scr\
ipts will be useful for bioinformatics community.

Codes are available from
http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/gpsr/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsraghava/

This is just starting, we will release all software to public in next
one year. I will app\
reciate you comment/suggestion/feedback on this package GPSR.

Regards

Raghava

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Call for Papers: Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences

2009-02-21T18:22:10Z

Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences

The Eighth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-09)
Seattle, Washington, USA
July 21, 2009

Call for Papers

There has been an explosion of interest in health sciences applications
of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), not only in the traditional CBR in Medicine
domain, but also in bioinformatics, enabling home health care technologies,
CBR integration, and synergies between CBR and knowledge discovery. This
is the seventh in a series of exciting workshops, which have been held at
every ICCBR and ECCBR since 2003. This workshop will be held at ICCBR-09,
in Seattle, Washington, USA, on July 21, 2009.

The goals of this workshop are to:

* provide a forum for identifying important contributions and
opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health
sciences,
* promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health
sciences, and
* showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences.

Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the
workshop, are to identify challenges specific to applying CBR to the health
sciences, required methodological improvements to fit this context needs,
preferred types and domains of applications, and guidelines to better
develop CBR systems in this domain.

We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the
health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Integration of CBR in health care environments
* CBR in medical decision-support systems
* CBR in medical imaging
* CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or
chronic health problems
* CBR and knowledge discovery in medicine and the health sciences
* Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine
* Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning
* CBR in bioinformatics
* CBR and evidence-based medicine

Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we
characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR
applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion
will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future directions.

Submission Requirements

PDF paper submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS
format, with a maximum of ten pages. Author's instructions along with
LaTeX and Word macro files are available at the Information for LNCS
Authors page, http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

We will not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we
welcome papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in
the Health Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously
published material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In
your submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication
and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper.

Please upload submissions via the ICCBR-09 EasyChair Conference Site,
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr09

Important Dates

* Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009
* Notification Date: May 18, 2009
* Camera-Ready Deadline: May 29, 2009
* Workshop date: July 21, 2009

Workshop Web Site

http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/iccbr09/workshop.html

Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

Cindy Marling
Ohio University, USA
marling@...

Stefania Montani
University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
stefania.montani@...

Committee Members

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA
Peter Funk, Malardalen University, Sweden
Alec Holt, University of Otago, New Zealand
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jean Lieber, Loria, France
Stefan V. Pantazi, Conestoga College Institute of Technology, Canada
Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer
Sciences, Germany
Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Olga Vorobieva, Pavlov State Medical University, Russia

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Call For Papers: Computer Science & Computer Engineering Conferences, USA, WORLDCOMP'09, Submission Deadline: Feb. 25, 2009

2009-02-20T15:50:17Z

CALL FOR PAPERS
=================

Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2009

WORLDCOMP'09
The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing
Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

You are invited to submit a paper; see below for submission
instructions. All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings (in printed books/proceedings).

WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H.
Holland (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado
State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of
California, Berkeley); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys
(OLPC + developer of X Window); and many other distinguished
speakers. For this year's conference, the keynote speakers include:
Prof. Ian Foster (Father of Grid Computing), Dr. Eric Drexler
(Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. Brian Athey (Head, NIH National
Center for Computational Medicine & Biology), Dr. Jose Munoz (Deputy
Director, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure),
and many other distinguished speakers.

The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09) is composed of the following
conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and
dates: July 13-16, 2009, USA). A link to each conference's URL can
be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

BIOCOMP'09: International Conf. on Bioinformatics &
Computational Biology
CDES'09: International Conf. on Computer Design
CGVR'09: International Conf. on Computer Graphics & Virtual
Reality
CSC'09: International Conf. on Scientific Computing
DMIN'09: International Conf. on Data Mining
EEE'09: International Conf. on e-Learning, e-Business,
Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government
ERSA'09: International Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable
Systems and Algorithms
ESA'09: International Conf. on Embedded Systems & Applications
FCS'09: International Conf. on Foundations of Computer Science
FECS'09: International Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer
Science & Computer Engineering
GCA'09: International Conf. on Grid Computing & Applications
GEM'09: International Conf. on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
ICAI'09: International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence
ICOMP'09: International Conf. on Internet Computing
ICWN'09: International Conf. on Wireless Networks
IKE'09: International Conf. on Information & Knowledge
Engineering
IPCV'09: International Conf. on Image Processing, Computer
Vision, & Pattern Recognition
MSV'09: International Conf. on Modeling, Simulation &
Visualization Methods
PDPTA'09: International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques & Applications
SAM'09: International Conf. on Security and Management
SERP'09: International Conf. on Software Engineering Research
and Practice
SWWS'09: International Conf. on Semantic Web and Web Services

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space,
font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are
acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The
first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author.
The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference that
the paper is being submitted to must be stated on the first page.

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two experts
in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
the track that the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make
the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
by one member of the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Feb. 25, 2009: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2009: Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2009: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 13-16, 2009: The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(WORLDCOMP'09 - 22 joint conferences)

COORDINATOR:

H. R. Arabnia, PhD
Professor, Computer Science
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
The University of Georgia, USA
Tel: (706) 542-3480
email: hra@...

SPONSORS (confirmed as of Feb. 20, 2009):

Academic Sponsors include:
United States Military Academy, Network Science Center, USA;
Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
MIT, USA; Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne
National Laboratory, USA; Functional Genomics Laboratory, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Intelligent Data
Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin,
Texas, USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics
Laboratory, Harvard University, USA; Texas Advanced Computing Center,
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Center for the
Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Bioinformatics & Computational
Biology Program, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Institute
of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria; BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging
Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System
Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; National Institute
for Health Research; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, College of
Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Institute for Informatics Problems
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC
& Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; SECLAB of
U. of Naples Federico II, U. of Naples Parthenope, and Second U. of
Naples, Italy; U. of North Dakota, USA; Intelligent Cyberspace
Engineering Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M University (Com./Texas), USA;
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences & Technologies; and European Commission.
Other Sponsors include:
High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
HoIP - Health without Boundaries; The International Council on
Medical and Care Compunetics; The UK Department for Business,
Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; VMW Solutions Ltd.; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and others.

TUTORIALS:

12 to 15 tutorials are currently being planned - all tutorials are
free to conference registrants. Tutorial subjects include, ABET
accreditation as it relates to computing, various aspects of
supercomputing (parallel and distributed systems and processing),
visualization, preparation for teaching online courses, various
areas of security, sensor networks, bioinformatics for computer
scientists, web services for mobile and wireless systems, ...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
computing. Many of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
premier conferences for presentation of advances in their
respective fields. We anticipate to have 2,400 or more attendees
from over 85 countries participating in the 2009 joint conferences.

The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for
exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The
model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both
inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
applications) will be covered during the conferences.

WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. One registration fee provides full access to
all events/sessions of all conferences (including tutorials). The
registration fee is set at the low end of the academia range for
Academic Conferences.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for
individual conferences is currently being formed. Those interested
in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
(hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
biography together with research interests and the name of the
conference offering to help with.
Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
departments, deans and provosts, and program directors of various
funding agencies.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is
a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational
attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for
conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within
walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
destinations, Golf courses, ...)

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The Second Call for Papers: IJCBS09

2009-02-03T13:58:44Z

Apologies if you receive a duplicate copy.

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The International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing (IJCBS'09) will take place in Shanghai, China on August 3rd - 6th, 2009. You are invited to submit papers with unpublished original work describing recent advances on all aspects of Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing, including, but not restricted to the following topics:

Bioinformatics: Bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio-languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data mining; identification and classification of genes; sequence search and alignment; protein structure prediction and molecular simulation; molecular evolution and phylogeny; functional genomics, proteomics; drug discovery; gene expression analysis; bioinformatics engineering; bio-data visualization; algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio-sets; biomarkers of toxicity; bio-imaging; signaling and computation, genetics and genomics.
Systems Biology: Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of cellular and multicellular systems, emergence of properties in complex biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data, prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells, organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug target validation.
Intelligent Computing: Machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, agents, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and optimization; feature selection/extraction; ensemble methods; manifold learning theory; artificial life and artificial immune systems; technology to develop artificial components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and scientific principles related to artificial life.

Important Dates
Workshop/Special Session Proposals: February 1, 2009
Paper Submission (maximum 8 pages with IEEE/CS conference format): February 15, 2009
Notification to Authors: March 15, 2009
Camera-Ready, Full Papers: April 5, 2009

Paper Submission and Publication
IJCBS09 invites authors to submit papers using the linkhttp://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/submission.html. By submitting your paper to IJCBS'09, you implicitly state that the paper is based on your own original research and that it was not and will not be submitted elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 7 pages with standard IEEE CS formats. All submitted papers should be written in English. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted.
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and indexed in EI. Selected papers will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals, including BMC Genomics, International Journal of Data Mining & Bioinformatics, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Supercomputing, International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, IJFIPM and other SCI and PubMed indexed journals.

Other Information
Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at the conference. The IJCBS'09 will award a number of travel fellowships for students and authors of outstanding papers.
Please find conference organization, workshops, special sessions, tutorials, keynotes, paper submission, author instructions and registration information at the IJCBS websitehttp://www.isibm.org/IJCBS. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Joe Zhang (USA) or Dr. Guozheng Li (China) by email ijcbs09@... .

IJCBS 2009 Program Committee and Organizing Committee
Sponsors/Supporters: ISIBM, NSF, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Chinese Academy of Science and Tongji University in Shanghai
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Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences

2009-02-02T08:42:27Z

Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences
(http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/cs847.html) is one
of a number of online courses from The University of Manchester. It is
designed mainly for biologists, but it will also be of interest to
computer scientists. An awareness of bioinformatics tools and resources
will be essential for anyone taking the course. (Our 'Introduction to
Bioinformatics'
(http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/bs6061.html) would
provide suitable preparation.)

The courses will begin again on 2 March 2009. The application deadline
is 13 February 2009.

Bio-ontologies now play a crucial role, both in the indexing of
experimental data and in the provision of conceptual abstractions for
aggregating results. This means that there is a need for domain experts
to be trained in the formal and conceptual bases underlying ontology
languages and modelling principles. Understanding of the underlying
principles of ontology development is necessary if domain experts are to
be enabled to develop ontologies that support inference, which is
critical for automated verification.

Our distance courses are delivered in a Virtual Learning Environment,
which allows us to extend the classroom into the web. We use a range of
tools to support our online teaching activities. Each course, which is
paced to suit those in full-time employment, runs over 16 teaching
weeks. Teaching and learning are focussed around tutor-supported
exercises. In this course, the course tasks are :-

1 Ontology ice breaker. This will be an exercise to make people aware
of the issues, and of the need for a common vocabulary.
2 Compare and contrast two bio-ontologies.
3 MCQ on what OWL statements mean.
3 Short ontology building project.
4 Advanced OWL as a project.

You will find information on all our courses, including fees and a link
to the online application form, here :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any
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The Second Call for Papers: IJCBS09

2009-01-22T23:38:40Z

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The International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology
and Intelligent Computing (IJCBS'09) will take place in Shanghai,
China on August 3rd - 6th, 2009. You are invited to submit papers with
unpublished original work describing recent advances on all aspects of
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing, including,
but not restricted to the following topics:

Bioinformatics: Bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio-
languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data
mining; identification and classification of genes; sequence search
and alignment; protein structure prediction and molecular simulation;
molecular evolution and phylogeny; functional genomics, proteomics;
drug discovery; gene expression analysis; bioinformatics engineering;
bio-data visualization; algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio-
sets; biomarkers of toxicity; bio-imaging; signaling and computation,
genetics and genomics.
Systems Biology: Modeling and simulation of biological processes,
pathways, networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of
cellular and multicellular systems, emergence of properties in complex
biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior
from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data,
prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high
performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells,
organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational
modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi-
resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or
stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems
biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug
discovery and drug target validation.
Intelligent Computing: Machine learning, data mining, pattern
recognition, agents, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary
computing, swarm intelligence and optimization; feature selection/
extraction; ensemble methods; manifold learning theory; artificial
life and artificial immune systems; technology to develop artificial
components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and
scientific principles related to artificial life.

Important Dates
Workshop/Special Session Proposals: February 1, 2009
Paper Submission (maximum 8 pages with IEEE/CS conference format):
February 15, 2009
Notification to Authors: March 15, 2009
Camera-Ready, Full Papers: April 5, 2009

Paper Submission and Publication
IJCBS09 invites authors to submit papers using the link http://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/submission.html
. By submitting your paper to IJCBS'09, you implicitly state that the
paper is based on your own original research and that it was not and
will not be submitted elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 7 pages with
standard IEEE CS formats. All submitted papers should be written in
English. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the
authors to register and present the work associated with the paper
submitted.
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers of
registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by
IEEE Computer Society and indexed in EI. Selected papers will be
invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several
journals, including BMC Genomics, International Journal of Data Mining
& Bioinformatics, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and
Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Supercomputing, International
Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, IJFIPM and other SCI
and PubMed indexed journals.

Other Information
Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at the
conference. The IJCBS'09 will award a number of travel fellowships for
students and authors of outstanding papers.
Please find conference organization, workshops, special sessions,
tutorials, keynotes, paper submission, author instructions and
registration information at the IJCBS website http://www.isibm.org/
IJCBS. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Joe Zhang (USA)
or Dr. Guozheng Li (China) by email ijcbs09@... .

IJCBS 2009 Program Committee and Organizing Committee
Sponsors/Supporters: ISIBM, NSF, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Chinese
Academy of Science and Tongji University in Shanghai
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Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML, March 2009

2009-01-01T01:33:41Z

Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML is one of a number of
online courses from The University of Manchester. These distance
courses are delivered in a Virtual Learning Environment, which allows us
to extend the classroom into the web. Each course, which is paced to
suit those in full-time employment, runs over 16 teaching weeks.

This course teaches essential skills in object-oriented analysis and
design and the Universal Modelling Language. It is independent of
particular software packages or programming languages, although there
are a few small Java code examples. The only prerequisite is some
familiarity with programming, not necessarily in an object-oriented
language.

Objectives:

After successful completion of the module, a participant will

* understand how to design software in an object-oriented manner
* have mastered UML as a notation to support this design
* have undertaken an OO design in UML as part of a team-work exercise

Course Outline:

The course starts with a thorough introduction to object concepts,
before explaining business modelling ("what do the customers need?"),
analysis ("what must the software do?") and design ("how will it do
it?"). Aspects of design covered include system and subsystem design and
semi-formal specification of software responsibilities. No particular
software development process is prescribed, but the approach taken is
consistent with current best practice, in particular, the Rational
Unified Process (RUP).

The full syllabus is provided on our web site :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html Here you will
find information on all of our courses, including fees and a link to the
online application form. If you have any questions, or need advice on
the module options, please contact Heather.Vincent@...

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INFORMS Journal on Computing

2008-12-28T09:22:51Z

In case you did not know, the INFORMS Journal on Computing (JoC)
includes the Area: Computational Biology and Medical Applications. I
am its Area Editor, and I am writing to encourage you to submit a
research paper (or insightful survey) --- go to
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijoc and use the online submission
system. For more information about this area and the submission
process, see http://www.informs.org/site/IJOC/.

It is important to archive the models and methods used to achieve
scientific results in a team effort. JoC is an ideal outlet for that.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Please share this announcement with your colleagues.

Thanks,
Harvey J. Greenberg
Area Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Colorado Denver

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BCBGC-09 call for papers

2008-12-19T12:48:13Z

BCBGC-09 call for papers

The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) (website:
http://www.PromoteResearch.org <http://www.promoteresearch.org/> ) will be
held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper
submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where
several other international conferences are taking place. The other
conferences include:

· International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition (AIPR-09)

· International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control
Systems (ARCS-09)

· International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web
Technologies (EISWT-09)

· International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking
and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)

· International Conference on Information Security and Privacy
(ISP-09)

· International Conference on Recent Advances in Information
Technology and Applications (RAITA-09)

· International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and
Practice (SETP-09)

· International Conference on Theory and Applications of
Computational Science (TACS-09)

· International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical
Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)

The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org
<http://www.promoteresearch.org/>contains more details.

Sincerely

Peter James

Publicity committee
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Java for Biologists, March 2009

2008-12-11T13:18:23Z

Java is one of a number of languages now used in computational biology.
In March 2009 we will be running online courses in Java at two
different levels, Introductory and Intermediate. The introductory
course is specifically designed for biologists with no previous
experience in programming.

At The University of Manchester, UK, we have 10 years experience in
running online programming courses for biologists. We use a Virtual
Learning Environment, which allows us to extend the classroom into the
web. We use a range of tools to support our online teaching activities.

Each course, which is paced to suit those in full-time employment, runs
over 16 teaching weeks.

Introduction to software development in Java covers:

Object-oriented basics
Imperative programming
Classes, responsibilities and collaborations
Inheritance
Exception handling
Collections and algorithms
Building simple GUIs
Stream and file I/O

Intermediate software development using Java covers:

A review the main language features omitted from the introductory course
Algorithms and data structures
Concurrency
Storing and manipulating external data
Basics of OO design
Networking and client-server systems
Relational databases
Other OO languages

You will find information on all our courses, including fees and a link
to the online application form, here :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any
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Second Call For Papers - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2008)

2008-09-23T01:07:38Z

Second Call For Papers - http://swapconf.it/2008/callforpapers.php

5th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2008)
FAO-UN, Roma, Italy 15-17 December 2008
http://swapconf.it/2008/

SWAP 2008 aims at giving an overview of work performed by the Semantic
Web community, and aims to attract researchers, developers and
interested practitioners alike.

The setting for the workshop is highly interactive, and presentations
are expected to focus on practical aspects and open problems.
The workshop will cover either theoretical or implementation issues
that anyway relate to Semantic Web applications.

The following is a partial list of topics of interests:

# Applications of Semantic Web technologies
# Data Semantics and Linked Data
# Semantic Social Networks
# Semantic Portals
# Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning
# Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing
Semantic Web data
# Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
# Ontology Design, Extraction, and Evolution
# Ontology Mapping, Merging, and Alignment
# Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation
# Semantic Multimedia
# Semantics in P2P systems and grids
# Searching, Querying, Visualizing and Interpreting the Semantic Web
# Evaluation of Semantic Web techniques
# Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data
# Large Scale Knowledge Management
# Semantic Brokering
# Semantic Coordination, Integration, Matching and Interoperability
# Semantic Web Mining
# Semantic Information Retrieval
# Visualization and Modeling
# Semantic Web Personalization
# Semantic Web middleware
# Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
# Semantic Web services
# Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents
# Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
# Systems of annotation extraction
# Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation
# Presentation and discussions of application scenarios
# Analysis of social online communities
# Web 2.0 personalization
# Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems
# Web 2.0-based ontology learning
# Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web

Important Dates:
October 17th - Paper Submission
November 14th - Notifications
November 21st - Camera Ready
December 15th - Tutorial Day
December 16-17 - SWAP 2008

Please, find the detailed call for papers and submission requirements
at http://swapconf.it/2008/callforpapers.php.

Jointly organized by:

* Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (Consiglio Nazionale
delle Ricerche), Roma - http://www.istc.cnr.it
* Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Roma -
http://www.fao.org

In collaboration with:

* W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Office in Italy,
* Semedia Group (DEIT, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche),
* University of Trento.

General Chairs
Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR)
Johannes Keizer (FAO-UN)

Program Chairs
Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR)
Heiko Stoermer (Università di Trento)

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Heiko Stoermer
University of Trento, Italy
Dept. of Information Science and Engineering (DISI)
http://disi.unitn.it/~stoermer
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Regarding the Special Issue on Agents and Data Mining on IEEE Intelligent Systems

2008-09-18T00:59:00Z

Dear colleagues and authors,

[Apologize if this is not related to you.]

With regard to the Special Issue on Agents and Data Mining on IEEE
Intelligent Systems,

www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/content/AgentsDMCFP.html

I recently received plenty of requests from Asia, Europe and America
asking for extension of the deadline. In addition, I was informed that
some of submissions have been sent back by IEEE IS for modification due to
inconsistency with the submission guidelines, and there are plenty of
submissions still under checking by IEEE IS and haven't gone into the
special issue paper management system.

To solve the above two issues, I have asked special approval from the IEEE
IS to extend the due date to 24 September for both incoming submissions
and those requested to be modified. If you have been asked by IEEE IS to
change your submission to fit in the guideline, you may find the above due
date in the email you received. For those who requested the extension and
will submit the paper before the new deadline, please make sure your
submission is aligned with IEEE IS submission guideline. Please note the
above date is the hard cutting point.

Regards,
Longbing

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IEEE CIBCB 2009 Call for Papers

2008-07-19T15:09:24Z

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Call for Papers: IEEE CIBCB 2009
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
March 30-April 2, Nashville, TN, USA

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This symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners,
and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in
the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world
problems in biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial
neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging
techniques. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: gene
expression array analysis, structure prediction and folding, drug
design, molecular sequence alignment and analysis, metabolic
pathway analysis, medical imaging and pattern recognition, analysis
of large biological data sets, and a variety of other topics. The use of
computational intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted
papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings.

Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit
papers of no more than eight (8) pages including results, figures and
references; submission details can be found on the symposium web
site: www.ieee-ssci.org. Authors are expected to present their paper at
the symposium. IEEE CIBCB 2009 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009 (IEEE SSCI 2009).
Over 20 such conferences will be co-located at this event.

Special Sessions and Tutorials: It is anticipated that the
symposium will have a number of special sessions and tutorials.
Consult the SSCI symposium web site for instructions on proposing a
special session or tutorial. Papers for special sessions must have
significant computational intelligence content.

Location: Nashville, Tennessee is well known for its cultural events
and moderate climate. It is considered a global music center. Nashville
is the capital of Tennessee and located on the beautiful Cumberland
River.

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Important Dates:
Special session and tutorial proposal deadline: August 30, 2008
Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2008
Author notification: November 30, 2008
Camera-ready paper deadline: January 15, 2009
Conference: March 30-April 2, 2009

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Program Chair: Kay C. Wiese
Technical Co-Chairs: Madhu Chetty, Mihail Popescu
Publicity Chair: Gary B. Fogel
Proceedings Chair: L. Gwenn Volkert
Special Sessions Chair: Scott F. Smith
Tutorials Chair: Dan Ashlock

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For further inquires:
IEEE SSCI 2009 Enquiries: Vincenzo Piuri – piuri@dti.unimi.it SSCI Symposium

Chair
IEEE CIBCB 2009 Enquiries: Kay C. Wiese – wiese@cs.sfu.ca CIBCB Program Chair

http://www.ieee-ssci.org
http://www.ieee-ssci.org/files/SSCI2009cfp.pdf

PRIB 2008: Call for short papers/ posters

2008-05-08T22:07:21Z

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IAPR PRIB 2008
CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS AND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
October 15-17, 2008
Novotel St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

Conference Web Site: www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Important Deadlines:

Paper submission: 25 May 2008
Author notification: 25 June 2008
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PRIB 2008 is aimed at bringing together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in life sciences. Pattern recognition techniques of interest include: statistical, syntactic, and structural approaches, Bayesian, hidden Markov and graphical models, neural networks, fuzzy and genetic algorithms, data mining, and their hybrids.

Short papers are solicited for poster presentation at PRIB 2008. Short papers in areas of (but not limited to) bio-sequence analysis, gene and protein expression analysis, structure prediction, protein folding, docking, metabolic pathway analysis and regulatory networks, system biology, drug design, and bioimaging, are solicited for presentation at the conference. A few selected papers may also be considered for oral presentation. The short papers will be published in the Supplementary Proceedings of the PRIB 2008 conference. The papers should follow the IEEE two-column format and be limited to four pages. If you need more pages, you should email the general chair in this regard. Submission of papers will be electronic and through the conference website. The details and the template for short paper preparation as well as the latest information on PRIB 2008 conference are available at:
www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08

Apart from oral and poster paper presentation, we are also inviting bioinformatics 'gurus' to come forth and be the keynote speakers.

Location:
Melbourne is a sophisticated city in the south-east corner of mainland Australia. It is known for its attractive site seeing places, great events, passion for food and wine and fabulous scenery. Boasting as a style-setter, Melbourne is home to continuous program of festivals, art exhibitions and musical extravaganzas. Warning: you might never want to go home.

For latest information on PRIB 2008, visit the conference web site or email the secretariat at prib2008.melb@...
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General Chair: Madhu Chetty (Monash University, Australia)
General Co-Chair: Raj Acharya (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Program Chair: Jagath Rajapakse (NTU, Singapore)

Technical Chairs: Elena Marchiori (Vrije University, The Netherlands)
Bertil Schmidt (NICTA, Australia)
Special Session Chair: Alioune Ngom (University of Windsor, Canada)

Short Paper Chairs: Shandar Ahmed (Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan)
Ponraj Prabhakaran (Duke University, USA)
Michael Grominha (Comp Biol. Res. Center, Japan)

Local Organization Chair: Shyh Wei Teng (Monash University, Australia)
Publicity Chairs: Shandar Ahmed (Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan)
Phoebe Chen (Deakin University, Australia)
Mariofanna Milanova (University of Arkansas at LR, USA)
Md. Tamjidul Hoque (Griffith University, Australia)
Publication Chairs: Sy Loi Ho (NTU, Singapore)
Girija Chetty (University of Canberra, Australia)
Sponsorship Chair: Dieter Bulach (CSIRO, Australia)
Finance Manager: Narelle Wilkins (Monash University, Australia)
Secretariat: Tina Bradshaw (Monash University, Australia)
Web Master: Margot Schuhmacher (Monash University, Australia)
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Contact:
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Gippsland School of Information Technology
Monash University
Churchill, Victoria - 3842, Australia
Tel: +61 3 9902 6566 Fax: +61 3 9902 7137
Email: prib2008.melb@...
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PRIB 2008: Extension of due date for paper submission

2008-04-12T22:18:19Z

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EXTENSION OF DUE DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, INVITED SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS

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Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2008)
October 15-17, 2008 (Melbourne, Australia)

Web: www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08
Email: prib2008.melb@...

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Due to many requests, the due date for submission of papers has been extended by one week. The important deadlines are as follows:

Paper submission: 22 April 2008
Author notification: 20 May 2008

IMPORTANT: If you have submitted the paper before 15th April and wish to update and resubmit the paper, you can do so. However, you should inform the General Chair about your intentions to resubmit. This will allow the PRIB Chairs to consider your most recent submission for review.
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IAPR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
Grants may be possible in a few deserving cases. Students DO NOT apply for these grants. The decision for the award of the grant to deserving cases will be based on the recommendation of the program committee and the reviewers' reports.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Authors of selected papers presented (both oral and poster) at PRIB 2008 will be invited to extend their work for consideration for publication in following special issues of reputed journals:
a) Elsevier's Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL) journal: Special Issue on "Pattern recognition in bioinformatics"
b) Elsevier's Neurocomputing journal: Special Issue on "Neurocomputing in bioinformatics and computational biology"

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Apart from regular sessions, there are now 5 special sessions soliciting paper submissions
a) SS1: Special Session on Neuro Computing for microarray data analysis
b) SS2: Special Session on Pattern Recognition in bio-molecular interaction networks
c) SS3: Special Session on High performance computing in bioinformatics
d) SS4: Special Session on Bioinformatics in genetic disorders and computational vaccinology
e) SS5: Special Session on Proteins: structure, function and interaction

Papers presented in special sessions will undergo the same review process as regular papers and will be included in conference proceedings.

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Monash University
Victoria - 3842, Australia

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Bioinformatics Conference - PRIB 2008: Special issues, Special sessions and Due dates

2008-03-24T11:38:58Z

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS

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Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
(PRIB 2008)
October 15 - 17, 2008 (Melbourne, Australia)

Web: www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08
Email: prib2008.melb@...

Important Deadlines:
Paper submission: 15 April 2008
Author notification: 15 May 2008
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IAPR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
Grants may be possible in few deserving cases. Students DO NOT apply for
these grants. The decision for the award of the grant to deserving cases
will be based on the recommendation of the program committee and the
reviewer reports.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Authors of selected papers presented (both oral and poster) at PRIB 2008
will be invited to extend their work for consideration for publication in
following special issues of reputed journals:
a) Elsevier's Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL) journal: Special Issue on
"Pattern recognition in bioinformatics"
b) Elsevier's Neurocomputing journal: Special Issue on "Neurocomputing in
bioinformatics and computational biology"

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Apart from regular sessions, there are now 5 special sessions soliciting
paper submissions
a) SS1: Special Session on Neuro Computing for microarray data analysis
b) SS2: Special Session on Pattern Recognition in bio-molecular interaction
networks
c) SS3: Special Session on High performance computing in bioinformatics
d) SS4: Special Session on Bioinformatics in genetic disorders and
computational vaccinology
e) SS5: Special Session on Proteins: structure, function and interaction

Papers presented in special sessions will undergo the same review process as
regular papers and will be included in conference proceedings.

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Monash University
Victoria - 3842, Australia

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ADVANCED COURSE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPARATIVE GENOME ANALYSIS

2008-03-17T05:21:27Z

> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Institut Pasteur / UFSC / Fiocruz / EMBO
>
> ADVANCED COURSE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPARATIVE GENOME ANALYSIS
>
> June 30 - July 12, 2008, UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The principle objectives of the course are to familiarize young
> scientists(Biologists/Computer Scientists/Mathematicians) with
> bioinformatics
> and genome data analysis skills and to encourage multi-
> disciplinarity by
> introducing:
> 1- advanced fundamental algorithms in bioinformatics,
> 2- their application in genome analyses,
> 3- and recent knowledge acquired from genomes studies.
>
> The course is aimed for motivated Ph.D. and Post-doctoral students,
> as well as
> young assistant professors and junior scientists in Public
> Institutions from
> developing countries, who are interested in Bioinformatics and
> Genome Analysis.
> Twenty (20) full time places are available for the course.
> Acceptance will be
> subject to an evaluation process and preference will be given to
> research
> scientists from the International Network of Institute Pasteur
> Institutions.
>
> For more information visit the website:
> http://www.pasteur.fr/%7Etekaia/ACBCGA.html

--
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Cx. postal 476, Florianópolis, SC, 88.040900 Brasil
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PRIB 2008

2008-02-18T03:37:49Z

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS, INVITED SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS
____________________________________________________________________________

Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in
Bioinformatics
October 15-17, 2008
Novotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

Web:http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08
_____________________________________________________________________________

Important Deadlines:

Paper submission: 15 April 2008
Proposals for Special Sessions: 15 March 2008
Proposals for Tutorials: 15 May 2008
Author notification: 15 May 2008
Camera-ready papers: 15 June 2008
______________________________________________________________________________

PRIB 2008 is aimed at bringing together top researchers, practitioners,
and students from around the world to discuss the applications of
pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve
problems in life sciences. Pattern recognition techniques of interest
include: statistical, syntactic, and structural approaches, Bayesian,
hidden Markov and graphical models, neural networks, fuzzy and genetic
algorithms, data mining, and their hybrids. Papers in areas of (but not
limited to) bio-sequence analysis, gene and protein expression analysis,
structure prediction, protein folding, docking, metabolic pathway
analysis and regulatory networks, system biology, drug design, and
bioimaging, are solicited for presentation at the conference.

All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings as an edited volume in Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics by Springer. Submission of papers will be electronic and
through the conference website. Proposals for special sessions and
tutorials at the conference are also invited in all related areas of
research. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will
also be invited for publication in Special Issues of reputed journals.

Location:
Melbourne is a sophisticated city in the south-east corner of mainland
Australia. It is known for its attractive site seeing places, great
events, passion for food and wine and fabulous scenery. Boasting as a
style-setter, Melbourne is home to continuous program of festivals, art
exhibitions and musical extravaganzas. Warning: you might never want to
go home.

For latest information on PRIB 2008, visit the conference web site or
email the secretariat at prib2008.melb@...
______________________________________________________________________

General Chair:
Madhu Chetty (Monash University, Australia)

General Co-Chair:
Raj Acharya (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Program Chair:
Jagath Rajapakse (NTU, Singapore)

Technical Chairs:
Elena Marchiori (Vrije University, The Netherlands)
Bertil Schmidt (NICTA, Australia)

Special Session Chairs:
Jennifer Hallinan (New Castle University, UK)
Alioune Ngom (University of Windsor, Canada)

Local Chair:
Shyh Wei Teng (Monash University, Australia)

Publicity Chairs:
Shandar Ahmad (Inst. of Biomedical Innovation, Japan)
Phoebe Chen (Deakin University, Australia)
Mariofanna Milanova (University of Arkansas at LR, USA)
Md. Tamjidul Hoque (Griffith University, Australia)

Publication Chairs:
Sy Loi Ho (NTU, Singapore)
Girija Chetty (University of Canberra, Australia)

Sponsorship Chair:
Dieter Bulach (CSIRO, Australia)

Finance Manager:
Tim Stephens (Monash University, Australia)

Secretariat:
Tina Bradshaw (Monash University, Australia)

Web Master:
Margot Schuhmacher (Monash University, Australia)

_______________________________________________________________________________
Contact:
PRIB 2008 Secretariat
Gippsland School of Information Technology
Monash University
Churchill, Victoria - 3842, Australia
Tel: +61 3 9902 6566 Fax: +61 3 9902 7137
Email: prib2008.melb@...
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ECML PKDD 2008 Call for Workshops/Tutorials

2008-02-15T00:37:29Z

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Call For Tutorial and Workshop Proposals
ECML PKDD 2008
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of
Knowledge Discovery in Databases
***********************************************************

September 15-19, 2008
Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/

The ECML PKDD 2008 Organizing Committee invites proposals for full-day or
half-day tutorials and workshops or a combination of these. Workshops and
tutorials will be part of the main conference, and are free of charge to the
attendees of the conference. Every workshop and tutorial will receive one
free conference registration to be used by one of the organisers or an
invited speaker of a workshop. Informal printed workshop proceedings and
tutorial notes will be made available by ECML PKDD organizers.

Key Dates

* Workshop/tutorial proposal deadline: March 31, 2008
* Workshop/tutorial acceptance notification: April 11, 2008
* Workshop websites and call for papers online: April 18, 2008
* Workshop/tutorial proceedings/notes camera-ready: August 21, 2008

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss current and emerging topics in
machine learning and/or data mining in an interactive atmosphere. Thus, any
topic that is of current interest to a sufficient number of participants from
the two communities could be the focus of a workshop. Workshops that bring
together researchers and practitioners from different communities are
especially encouraged. Each workshop should be well-focused, aim not to be a
mini-conference, but attract a sufficiently large audience. At least one of
the Workshop Chairs should be a knowledgeable person in the area of machine
learning or data mining.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide independent instruction on topics from the field of machine
learning or data mining. Introductions to other research domains that could
fertilize the machine learning/data mining field with new challenges or
solutions are also welcome provided that there is a clear relation to machine
learning/data mining. Each tutorial should be well-focused, attract a
sufficiently large audience, cover the overall picture at an introductory
level without a bias towards the work of one author, and be free of
commercial or sales-oriented material. A tutorial should be presented by
highly qualified persons with a demonstrable background and teaching
experience in the tutorial area.

Submissions

Proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chairs and
reviewers to judge the importance, relevance, quality and community interest
in the proposed tutorial/workshop. More detailed instructions are available
here:

http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/workshop-tutorial-instructions

Each proposal should be submitted by email to the ECML PKDD 2008 workshop and
tutorial chairs, who will review the proposals in close collaboration with
the conference chairs and members of the program committee.

Contact

In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are
looking forward to your proposals,

The ECML PKDD 2008 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
Siegfried Nijssen, siegfried@...
Arno Siebes, arno@...

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TSD 2008 First Call for Papers

2008-02-07T03:37:22Z

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TSD 2008 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
*********************************************************

Eleventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2008)
Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008
http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the
former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings
of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

text corpora and tagging
transcription problems in spoken corpora
sense disambiguation
links between text and speech oriented systems
parsing issues
parsing problems in spoken texts
multi-lingual issues
multi-lingual dialogue systems
information retrieval and information extraction
text/topic summarization
machine translation
semantic networks and ontologies
semantic web
speech modeling
speech segmentation
speech recognition
search in speech for IR and IE
text-to-speech synthesis
dialogue systems
development of dialogue strategies
prosody in dialogues
emotions and personality modeling
user modeling
knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
applied systems and software
facial animation
visual speech synthesis

Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair)
Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair)
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Genevieve Baudoin, France
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Attila Ferencz, Romania
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, GB
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic
Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
Ales Horak, Czech Republic
Eduard Hovy, USA
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
Hermann Ney, Germany
Elmar Noeth, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
Fabio Pianesi, Italy
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
James Pustejovsky, USA
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Tamas Varadi, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
Yorick Wilks, GB
Victor Zakharov, Russia

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2008 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final
versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the
final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the
submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper
to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of
CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file
with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
presenters will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on
the final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.)

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference. The presenters of the demonstration should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2008 ............ Submission of abstract
March 22 2008 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2008 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2008 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July 23 2008 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 30 2008 ............. Notification of acceptance for
demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2008 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status.
It includes one copy of the proceedings, refreshments, local
transport, social events and organizing costs. The fee does not
include accommodation.

Full participant:
Early payment (by May 31): CZK 8500
Late payment (by August 15): CZK 10000
On-site payment: CZK 12000

Student:
Early payment (by May 24): CZK 7000
Late payment (by August 15): CZK 8500
On-site payment: CZK 10000

The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost
of CZK 1500. No refund is possible after this date.

All costs are in Czech Crowns (Czech Koruna, CZK), see e.g.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current exchange rate.

At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration
fee by June 16, 2008 for their paper to be included in the
conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included
in the regular registration fee. The additional paper and page
charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays
the additional paper(s) rates unless a co-author has also registered
and paid the full registration fee.

The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants for
participants from East European countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
..). To apply for a grant, send an email to tsd2008@...
with subject 'Grant Application', in which you briefly describe the
reasons for your application. Each applicant must send a separate
e-mail.

ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.

ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to

Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2008
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29
fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
email: tsd2008@...

The official TSD 2008 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/

LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000. The city is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had been a Royal City
since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow,
Barcelona and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or
Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also
be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk,
Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery
with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St.
James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo
Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along
with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors
(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by
Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle,
Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau,
Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe,
Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all
within easy reach.

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PRIB 2008

2008-01-26T22:50:40Z

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS

********************************************************************************************
Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in
Bioinformatics (PRIB 2008)
October 15 – 17, 2008
Melbourne, Australia

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08
********************************************************************************************

PRIB 2008 is aimed at bringing together top researchers, practitioners,
and students from around the world to discuss the applications of
pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve
problems in life sciences. Pattern recognition techniques of interest
include: statistical, syntactic, and structural approaches, Bayesian,
hidden Markov and graphical models, neural networks, fuzzy and genetic
algorithms, data mining, and their hybrids. Papers in areas of (but not
limited to) bio-sequence analysis, gene and protein expression
analysis,
structure prediction, protein folding, docking, metabolic pathway
analysis and regulatory networks, system biology, drug design, and
bioimaging, are solicited for presentation at the conference.

All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings as an edited volume in Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics by Springer. Submission of papers will be electronic and
through the conference website. Proposals for special sessions and
tutorials at the conference are also invited in all related areas of
research. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will
also be invited for publication in Special Issues of reputed journals.

Location:
Melbourne is a sophisticated city in the south-east corner of mainland
Australia. It is known for its attractive site seeing places, great
events, passion for food and wine and fabulous scenery. Boasting as a
style-setter, Melbourne is home to continuous program of festivals, art
exhibitions and musical extravaganzas. Warning: you might never want to
go home.

For latest information on PRIB 2008, visit the conference web site:
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/prib08

or email the secretariat at prib2008.melb@...

Important Deadlines
Paper submission: 15 April 2008
Proposals for Special Sessions/Tutorials: 15 March 2008
Author notification: 15 May 2008
Camera-ready papers: 15 June 2008

Organising Committee, PRIB 2008

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BCBGC-08 Final call for papers

2008-01-22T15:48:02Z

BCBGC-08 Final call for papers

The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08) (website:
www.PromoteResearch.org<http://www.promoteresearch.org/>) will be held
during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft
paper submissions. The conference will be held at the same time and place
where several other major events are taking place. The website contains more
details.

Sincerely

John Edward
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