Second Call for Papers, 1998 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Larry Hunter
hunter at nlm.nih.gov
Wed Jun 4 12:34:33 EST 1997
REMINDER: PAPERS ARE DUE JULY 14! CHECK OUR WEB PAGE FOR SESSION DETAILS...
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Call For Papers, Abstracts and Demonstrations
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URL: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb
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The third Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), will be held January 4-9,
1998 in Maui, Hawaii. PSB will bring together top researchers from North
America, the Asian Pacific nations, Europe and around the world to exchange
research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational
biology. PSB will provide a forum for the presentation of work in
databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other
computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on
applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology. PSB intends to
attract a balanced combination of computer scientists and biologists,
presenting significant original research, demonstrating computer systems,
and facilitating formal and informal discussions on topics of importance to
computational biology.
To provide focus for the very broad area of biological computing, PSB is
organized into a series of specific sessions. Each session will involve
both formal research presentations and open discussion groups. The 1998 PSB
sessions are:
* Gene Expression and Genetic Networks
* Molecules to Maps: Tools for Visualization & Interaction
* Gene Structure Identification in Large-scale Genomic Sequence
* Molecular Modeling in Drug Design and Biotechnology
* Protein Structure Prediction
* The Relationship Between Protein Structure and Function
* Computing with Biomolecules
* Complexity and Information Theoretic Approaches to Biology
* Distributed and Intelligent Databases
* Building Bioinformation Infrastructure in the Pacific Rim
Further details on each session can be found below.
The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length
papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in a
hard-bound archival proceedings, and the best of these will be presented
orally to the entire conference. Researchers wishing to present their
research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one page
abstract, and present their work in discussion, poster and demonstration
sessions.
Important dates:
Paper submissions due: July 14, 1997
Notification of paper acceptance: August 22, 1997
Final paper deadline September 22, 1997
Abstract deadline October 1, 1997
Meeting January 4-9, 1998
Paper format:
Papers may be up to 12 single spaced pages, and *must* use our supplied
format, available from ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. Each
paper must be accompanied by a cover letter stating that it contains
original unpublished results not currently under consideration elsewhere
and that all co-authors concur with its contents. Please indicate in your
cover letter for which specific session (if any) you wish your paper or
abstract to be considered. Papers and abstracts may be submitted
electronically. Contact Russ Altman (russ.altman at stanford.edu) for
additional information.
Paper submission address:
For physical submission, please send five copies of your paper to:
PSB-98
c/o Russ B. Altman
Section on Medical Informatics
SUMC, MSOB X-215
Stanford, CA, USA 94305-5479
(415) 725-0659
Electronic submission of papers and abstracts is encouraged. Contact
Dr. Altman for information about electronic submission.
Travel support:
We have been able to offer partial travel support to many PSB attendees in
the past, including most authors of accepted full papers who request
support. However, due to our sponsoring agencies' schedules, we are
unable to offer travel awards before the registration (and payment)
deadlines for authors. We recognize that this is inconvenient, and we are
doing our best to rectify the situation. NO ONE IS GUARANTEED TRAVEL
SUPPORT. Travel support applications will be available on our web site.
Conference cochairs:
Russ Altman, Stanford University
A. Keith Dunker, Washington State University
Lawrence Hunter, National Library of Medicine
Teri Klein, University of California, San Francisco
Each session has a chair who is responsible for organizing submissions.
Please contact the specific session chair relevant to your interests for
further information.
PSB '98 Sessions:
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Gene Expression and Genetic Networks
Cochairs: Barbara Bryant, Aleksandar Milosavljevic & Roland Somogyi
Computational methods in the monitoring, analysis, and modeling of RNA and
protein expression; gene regulatory network models and new methods of
acquiring and analyzing large-scale gene expression data.
Contact:
Roland Somogyi
Phone: +1 (301) 402-1407
Fax: +1 (301) 402-1565
Email: rolands at helix.nih.gov
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/expression.html
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Molecules to Maps: Tools for Visualization & Interaction
Cochairs: Tom Ferrin & Eileen Kraemer
Tools and techniques to assist scientists in evaluating, absorbing,
navigating, and correlating sequence, structural, and functional data
through visualization and user interaction.
Contact:
Eileen Kraemer
Phone: +1 (314) 935-6621
Fax: +1 (314) 935-7302
Email: eileen at cs.wustl.edu
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/visualization.html
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Gene Structure Identification in Large-scale Genomic Sequence
Cochairs: Ying Xu, Edward Uberbacher
Any aspect of computational gene finding, particularly how to fully
utilize the available EST/protein sequences and biological information,
statistical and mathematical tools to automate gene identification and
annotation in large-scale genomic sequences.
Contact:
Ying Xu
Phone: +1 (423) 574-7263
Fax: +1 (423) 574-7860
Email: xyn@@ornl.gov
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/gene.html
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Molecular Modeling in Drug Design and Biotechnology
Cochairs: Terry Lybrand, Teri Klein, Jurgen Bajorath
State-of-the-art molecular modeling approaches which aid in small
molecular and structure-based drug design and protein engineering.
Contact:
Terry Lybrand
Phone: +1 (206) 685-1515
Fax: +1 (206) 616-4387
E-mail: lybrand at proteus.bioeng.washington.edu
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/modeling.html
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Protein Structure Prediction
Chair: Richard Lathrop
All aspects of protein structure prediction, with emphasis on approaches
that lead to testable protein structure predictions, and experimental
results across a large diverse set of proteins.
Contact:
Richard Lathrop
Phone: +1 (714) 824-4021
Fax: +1 (714) 824-4056
Email: rickl at ics.uci.edu
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/psp.html
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The Relationship Between Protein Structure and Function:
How Have Proteins Over Time Diverged in Function?
Cochairs: Patricia Babbitt and Monica Riley
Computational strategies to address the "structure-function" problem,
particularly the interface between automated structural analysis,
evolutionary change and biological insight.
Contact:
Patricia Babbitt
Phone: +1 (415) 476-3784
Fax: +1 (415) 476-0688
email: babbitt at cgl.ucsf.edu
web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/function.html
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Computing with Biomolecules
Cochairs: Peter Clote, Masami Hagiya, Tom Head
Both artificial and naturally occurring computations in which biological
macromolecules act as computational elements.
Contact:
Tom Head
Phone: +1 (607) 777-2278
Fax: +1 (607) 777-2450
Email: Tom at Math.Binghamton.edu
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/compute.html
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Complexity and Information Theoretic Approaches to Biology
Cochairs: David Dowe and Klaus Prank
Approaches to biological problems using notions of information or
complexity, including methods such as Algorithmic Probability, Minimum
Message Length and Minimum Description Length. Two possible applications
are (e.g.) protein folding and biological information processing.
Contact:
David Dowe
Phone: +61 3 9905-5776
Fax: +61 3 9905-5146
Email: dld at cs.monash.edu.au
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/info.html
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Distributed and Intelligent Databases
Cochairs: Dmitrij Frishman and Patrick Argos
Computer and algorithmic methods that result in more intelligent,
interconnected and accessible molecular biological databases.
Contact:
Dmitrij Frishman
Phone: +49 (89) 8578-2664
Fax: +49 (89) 8578-2655
Email: frishman at mips.biochem.mpg.de
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/database.html
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Building Bioinformation Infrastructure in the Pacific Rim
Cochairs: S. Subbiah, T.W. Tan, Tim Littlejohn, Hideaki Sugawara
Collaboration and cooperation to create a shared biological information
infrastructure across the Pacific Rim nations and beyond, that will
guarantee a quality of service to the users of our biocomputing and
bioinformatics resources. Of particular emphasis in this session is how
to transfer the technology to research organizations in developing nations
which find difficulty in accessing biocomputing and bioinformatics
services.
Contact:
Tin Wee Tan
Phone: +65 772-6490
Fax: +65 872-6205
Email: tinwee at bic.nus.sg
Web: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/sessions/pacific.html
For further information about the conference, registration, possible travel
support, submission of papers not covered by the above categories, or other
information, please contact the conference coordinator:
Norma Belfer
PSB Conference Coordinator
UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory
Box 0446
513 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, California 94143-0446
email: psb at cgl.ucsf.edu
fax: +1 (415) 476-0688
tel: +1 (415) 476-5128
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Lawrence Hunter, PhD.
National Library of Medicine phone: +1 (301) 496-9303
Bldg. 38A, 9th fl, MS-54 fax: +1 (301) 496-0673
Bethesda. MD 20894 USA email: hunter at nlm.nih.gov
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