The Fifth International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '97
June 21-25, 1997
Halkidiki, Greece
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/ismb97/
Call For Papers
The ISMB conference provides a general forum for disseminating the
latest developments in bioinformatics. ISMB is a multidisciplinary
conference that brings together scientists from computer science,
molecular biology, mathematics, and statistics. Its scope includes
the development and application of advanced computational methods for
biological problems. Relevant computational techniques include, but
are not limited to: machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge
representation, databases, combinatorics, stochastic modeling, string
and graph algorithms, linguistic methods, robotics, constraint
satisfaction, and parallel computation. Biological areas of interest
include molecular structure, genomics, molecular sequence analysis,
evolution and phylogenetics, metabolic pathways, regulatory networks,
developmental control, and molecular biology generally. Emphasis is
placed on the validation of methods using real data sets, on practical
application in the biological sciences, and on development of novel
computational techniques.
The five-day conference will be held in the attractive conference
facilities of the Porto Carras Resort on the coast of the northern
province of Macedonia, Greece. The hotel is a popular venue for
international meetings. The Porto Carras Resort has four and
five-star hotels with a casino, a large marina, and a secluded beach.
The resort is located in the central peninsula of Halkidiki, called
Sithonia, on the Northern Aegean sea. It is about 100km from
Thessaloniki, which has been designated the European Cultural Capital
for 1997.
The conference will feature both original, refereed papers to be
published (by AAAI Press) in an archival proceedings, and introductory
tutorials. The conference proceedings are indexed in the Medline
database, and will be provided to participants as a bound volume at
the conference.
*** Recent News ***
Keynote speakers at ISMB-97 will include Richard Lathrop from the
University of California at Irvine, and Marcie McClure from the
University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
ISMB-98 will be held in the summer of 1998 in Montreal, Canada.
ISMB-97 Key Dates
Meeting:
Tutorial presentations: June 21, 1997
Paper presentations: June 22-25, 1997
Paper Submissions
Papers must be received by: Feb 7, 1997
Replies to authors by: Mar 7, 1997
Revised papers must be received by: Mar 21, 1997
Open Poster Submissions
Abstracts must be received by: Mar 21, 1997
Tutorial Proposals
Short (1-para) proposals must be received by: Jan 24, 1997
Full (3pp) proposals must be received by: Feb 21, 1997
Replies to proposers by: Mar 28, 1997
Draft handouts must be received by: April 18, 1997
Final handouts must be received by: May 21, 1997
Tutorials presented: Jun 21, 1997
Registration
Early registration ends: May 21, 1997
Papers should be 12 pages, single-spaced and set in 12 point type,
including title, abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography. The
first page should give keywords, postal and electronic mailing
addresses, telephone, and fax numbers. Papers may be considered for
oral presentation, poster presentation, or both. See the WWW page for
additional submission instructions and other conference details.
ISMB-97 Contact address: ismb97 at embl-ebi.ac.uk
WWW page: http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/ismb97/
ISMB-97 Organizing Committee
Terry Gaasterland, Argonne National Laboratory and Dept of
Computer Science, U Chicago, USA
Peter D. Karp, SRI International, USA
Kevin Karplus, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Christos Ouzounis, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Chris Sander, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia, Spain
ISMB-97 Program Committee
Russ Altman, Stanford University, USA
Kiyoshi Asai, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI, UK
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Soren Brunak, Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis, Denmark
Douglas Brutlag, Stanford University, USA
Barbara Bryant, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA
Dominic Clark, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, UK
Antoine Danchin, Pasteur Institute, FR
Trevor Dix, Monash University, Australia
Jacquelyn Fetrow, University at Albany, USA
Tom Flores, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Bob Futrelle, Northeastern University, USA
Warren Gish, Washington University, USA
Janice Glasgow, Queens University, Canada
Nathan Goodman, Jackson Laboratory, USA
David Haussler, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Des Higgins, University College, Cork, Ireland
Rick Lathrop, University of California Irvine, USA
Thomas Lengauer, GMD-SCAI, Germany
Claudine Medigue, Curie Institute, FR
Aleksandar Milosavljevic, CuraGen Corporation, USA
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Christine Orengo, University College, London, UK
Chris Overton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Chris Rawlings, SmithKline Beecham, UK
Otto Ritter, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
Burkhard Rost, EMBL, Germany
Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University, USA
David Searls, SmithKline Beecham, USA
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, USA
Manfred Sippl, University of Salzburg, Austria
Gary Stormo, University of Colorado, USA
Joel Sussman, Brookhaven Nat'l Laboratory, USA / Weizmann Inst, Israel
Willie Taylor, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Anna Tramontano, IRBM, Italy
Ed Uberbacher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
