This year, the Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop will be
held in conjunction with ACM-BCB 2013. The rapid accumulation of
macromolecular structures presents a unique set of challenges and
opportunities in the analysis, comparison, modeling, and prediction of
macromolecular structures and interactions. This workshop aims to bring
together researchers with expertise in bioinformatics, computational
biology, structural biology, data mining, optimization and high
performance computing to discuss new results, techniques, and research
problems in computational structural bioinformatics.
CSBW invites high quality original papers and posters on developments in
computational problems relating to molecular structure. Authors of
accepted papers will be provided approximately 20 minutes to provide an
oral summary of their work, with time for questions. Please refer to
website above for details about format and submission. At least one
author of an accepted paper is required to register for the workshop to
present the paper. Registration to CSBW is complementary with
registration to ACM-BCB 2013.
Important dates:
June 28, 2013: Paper submission deadline
July 24, 2013: Notification of paper acceptance
August 1, 2013: Camera-ready paper submission deadline
September 5, 2013: Poster abstract submission deadline
September 22-25, 2013: workshop/ACM-BCB conference
The CSBW Co-Chairs are also very pleased to announce that Lenore Cowen,
of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University, will present
the Keynote Lecture at our workshop.
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5
x 11 inch paper (see ACM templates). All the manuscripts should be
submitted athttp://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2013/submission.html
<http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecse%2Ebuffalo%2Eedu%2FACM-BCB2013%2Fsubmission%2Ehtml&urlhash=4OnX&_t=tracking_anet>.
All accepted papers will be published in proceedings published by ACM
digital libraries. Journals used in previous years included the
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2007), BMC
Structural Biology (2009, 2012) and the Journal of Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (2011).
CSBW also seeks poster abstracts on developments or significant works in
progress towards computational problems relating to molecular structure.
Posters sessions will expand scientific dialogue at the workshop and
train students in scientific communication. Authors of accepted posters
will have unhurried opportunities to communicate their results in poster
sessions taking place during the day.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Structure representations
- Structure prediction and refinement
- Structure comparison and alignment
- Molecular interaction, docking, and simulation
- Coarse-grained modeling
- Mining structural data
- Structural genomics
- Applications of high performance computing to structural problems
- Applications of graph theory and optimization to structural problems
- Structure-based drug design
- Biomolecular graphics
Steering Committee:
Roland L. Dunbrack, Jr., Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer
Research
Vasant Honavar, Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University
Lydia Kavraki, Dept. of Computer Science, Rice University
Anna Panchenko (NIH/NLM/NCBI)
Desh Ranjan, Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University
Zhijun Wu, Iowa State University
Yaoqi Zhou, School of Informatics, Indiana University -- Purdue
University Indianapolis
Workshop Chairs:
Jing He, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University
Amarda Shehu, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
Nurit Haspel, Department of Computer Science, University of
Massachusetts, Boston
Brian Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh
University
Contact: For questions regarding the workshop, please email jhe from cs.odu.edu
