*Call for Papers
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2011 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 11)*
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*August 1-3, 2011, Chicago, Illinois*
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*www.acmbcb.org*
The ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine
(ACM BCB) is the main conference of the newly formed ACM SIG Bioinformatics=
.
This is the second year of the ACM BCB Conference. Over 200 people attende=
d
ACM BCB 10, which took in Niagara Falls, NY on August 2-4, 2010.
ACM BCB 11 will be held in Chicago at the Hilton Suites Chicago =96
Magnificent Mile from August 1-3. The conference welcomes high quality,
original research papers. Papers should contain new algorithms or novel
computational approaches in the broad areas of bioinformatics, computationa=
l
biology and biomedicine. Papers that use existing computational techniques
in new and interesting ways leading to novel biological discoveries are als=
o
welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
=B7 Genomics: Structural, Functional, and Comparative
=B7 Molecular Networks: Proteomics, Transcriptomics & Metabolomics
=B7 Phylogenetics at Gene and Genome Levels
=B7 Computational Systems Biology
=B7 Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology
=B7 Computational Epidemiology
=B7 Biomedical and Translational Informatics
=B7 Databases, Knowledgebases & Ontologies for Bioinformatics
=B7 Machine Learning, Image Analysis, Knowledge Representation and
Inference
=B7 Integration of Biomedical Data
=B7 Text Mining and Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine
=B7 Hardware and Software Infrastructure for Biomedicine
The best of the accepted papers will be published in special issues of four
journals. See the web site for details.
*Important dates: *(http://acmbcb.org/important-dates/)**
Electronic submission of full papers: *March 21, 2011* (New deadline)
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera-ready submission of accepted papers: May 1, 2011
Conference dates: August 1-3, 2011
Workshop proposal submission: February 1, 2011
Tutorial proposal submission: March 21, 2011
Poster submission: April 30, 2011
*General Chairs*
Robert Grossman, University of Chicago
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
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*Program Chairs*
Sun Kim, Indiana University Bloomington
Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
