[Computational-biology] ACM-BCB Call for Papers - Deadline extended

[Sam Volchenboum]

*Call for Papers
-=3D DEADLINE EXTENDED =3D-*

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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