Call for Papers
WABI 2002
2nd Workshop on Algorithms in BioInformatics
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ALGO 2002 Scope
September 16-21
Rome ``La The Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics covers
Sapienza'' research in all aspects of algorithmic work in
bioinformatics and computational biology. The emphasis
is on discrete algorithms, that address important
problems in molecular biology, genomics and genetics
that are founded on sound models, that are
computationally efficient, and that have been
implemented and tested in simulations and on real
datasets. The goal is to present recent research
results, including significant work-in-progress, and
to identify and explore directions of future research.
WABI 2002 will be held in conjunction with ESA and
APPROX 2002. The three conferences are jointly called
ALGO 2002, and will take place in Rome, Italy, September
16-21, 2002. The conferences will be held at the Faculty
of Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza".
For general information on ALGO 2002 see
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~algo02/
WABI 2001 was sponsored by EATCS (the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science) and
jointly organized and colocated with WAE 2001 and ESA
2001 in the context of ALGO 2001. For general
information on WABI, see the web site
www.brics.dk/wabi2001/.
Topics
Original research papers (including significant
work-in-progress) or state-of-the-art surveys are
solicited in all aspects of algorithms in
bioinformatics, including, but not limited to:
* Exact and approximate algorithms for genomics,
genetics, sequence analysis, gene and signal
recognition, alignment, molecular evolution,
phylogenetics, structure determination or
prediction, gene expression and gene
networks, proteomics, functional genomics,
and drug design.
* Development of methods, software and dataset
repositories for development and testing of such
algorithms and their underlying models.
* High-performance computing approaches to
computationally hard problems in bioinformatics,
particularly optimization problems.
The proceedings of the workshop will be published in
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of
Springer Verlag.
Submissions
Submissions should consist of an extended abstract of
no more than 15 pages in 11pt font, preferably using the
Springer LNCS style. An abstract should start with a
presentation of the biological problem, the results
achieved, their significance and a comparison with
previous work. This material should be understandable
to non-specialists. A more technical exposition should
follow and an optional short appendix may contain
details or additional data to be consulted at the
discretion of the program committee. The submission
must include the corresponding author's email address.
NOTE: We would like to encourage submissions from
researchers in the biological community who may not
be familiar with competitive computer science
style conferences. We encourage authors to use a
sufficient number of pages to make the fullest and
most compelling presentation of their work.
All submissions must be online, using the online
submission server -- see
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~algo02/ for details.
A standard postscript file must be
received by 23:59 (GMT) on April 26, 2002, for your
submission to be considered. Authors who experience
problems generating a suitable Postscript file or
whose submission exceeds the file size limit should
contact the program chairs.
Simultaneous submission to another conference or
journal is allowed. Authors are asked to inform the
program co-chairs at the time of submission of the
simultaneous submission. If the paper has been
accepted to another conference or a journal before
WABI 2002, the authors will be allowed only a short
abstract (1 page) in the proceedings of WABI 2002 and
not an extended abstract.
In order to ensure inclusion of their work in the
proceedings, authors must present their accepted
papers at the workshop.
Address any questions to the program committee chairs,
Roderic Guigo (rguigo at imim.cs.es) and Dan Gusfield
(gusfield at cs.ucdavis.edu)
Important Dates
Submission deadline April 26, 2002
Notification to authors June 7, 2002
Final version due July 8, 2002
Symposium September 16-21, 2002
Program Committee
Pankaj Agarwal (GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals)
Alberto Apostolico (U. Padova and Purdue U.)
Craig Benham (U.C. Davis)
Jean-Michel Claverie (CNRS-AVENTIS, Marseille)
Nir Friedman (Hebrew U.)
Olivier Gascuel (U. de Montpellier II and CNRS, Montpellier)
Misha Gelfand (IntegratedGenomics, Moscow)
Raffaele Giancarlo (U. di Palermo)
David Gilbert (City University, London)
Roderic Guigo (IMIM, Barcelona, co-chair)
Dan Gusfield (U.C. Davis co-chair)
Jotun Hein (U. Oxford)
Inge Jonassen (U. of Bergen)
Giuseppe Lancia (U. Padova)
Bernard M.E. Moret (U. New Mexico)
Gene Myers (Celera Genomics)
Christos Ouzonis (European Bioinformatics Institute)
Lior Pachter (U.C. Berkeley)
Knut Reinert (Celera Genomics)
Marie-France Sagot (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon)
David Sankoff (U. Montreal)
Steve Skiena (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Gary Stormo (Washington University)
Jens Stoye (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Molekulare Genetik)
Martin Tompa (U. Washington)
Alfonso Valencia (Centro National de Biotecnologia, Madrid)
Martin Vingron (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Molekulare Genetik)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
Tandy Warnow (U. Texas, Austin)
WABI Steering Committee
Olivier Gascuel
Jotun Hein
Raffaele Giancarlo
Erik Meineche-Schmidt
Bernard Moret
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Bernard M.E. Moret moret at cs.unm.eduhttp://www.cs.unm.edu/~moret
(505) 277-5699 (office) (505) 277-6927 (FAX) (505) 277-3112 (department)
Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
