The Fifth International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '97
June 21-26, 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. The previous ISMB meetings were:
1993: National Library of Medicine, USA
1994: Stanford University, USA
1995: Cambridge University, UK
1996: Washington University, USA
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. See the WWW page for
submission instructions and other conference details.
A job fair and a vendor fair are being organized.
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, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Chris Sander, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia, Spain
ISMB Steering Group
Pankaj Agarwal Washtington University, USA
Russ Altman Stanford University, USA
Doug Brutlag Stanford University, USA
Dominic Clark Glaxo Wellcome, UK
Terry Gaasterland Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Larry Hunter National Institutes of Health, USA
Peter Karp SRI International, USA
Kevin Karplus UC Santa Cruz, USA
Richard Lathrop UC Irvine, USA
Thomas Lengauer GMD-SCAI, Germany
Christos Ouzounis SRI/EBI, USA/UK
Chris Rawlings SmithKline Beecham, UK
Chris Sander EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
David Searls SmithKline Beecham, USA
Jude Shavlik U. Wisconsin Madison, USA
Randy Smith SmithKline Beecham, USA
David States Washington University St. Louis, USA
Alfonso Valencia Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia, Spain
Shoshana Wodak European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Key Dates
Meeting:
Tutorial presentations: June 21, 1997
Paper presentations: June 22-26, 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
ISMB-97 Contact address: ismb97 at embl-ebi.ac.uk
