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Call for Workshop Proposals
2011 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 11)
August 1-3, 2011, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2011/http://acmbcb.org/
The ACM-BCB-2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of a workshop is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on active and emerging topics in bioinformatics and computational biology. A workshop should also support the interaction and feedback among topic specialists from academia, industry and government.
Workshops that focus on a challenge problem, e.g., text mining in biomedicine, biomedical ontologies, biomolecular network construction and analysis, translational biomedical applications, computational immunology and vaccinology applications, next generation sequencing applications, protein structure, function and dynamics, RNA-based regulatory mechanisms, multi-scale modeling, are especially welcome.
The organizers of approved workshops are required to create a workshop web page to be linked to the main conference web page, announce the workshop and call for papers, gather submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final workshop program. They must also prepare an informal workshop proceedings to be distributed with the registration materials at the conference or published on the web. They may choose to form organizing or program committees for assistance in these tasks. The logistics of the workshops will be coordinated with help from the ACM BCB-2011 organizers.
Important Dates
• Workshop proposals due Feb 1, 2011
• Notification of decision March 1, 2011
• Workshops will be run concurrently one or two days before the main conference (depending on the number of successful proposals).
Proposal Information
Proposals should be no more than five pages in length and must include the following:
• Description of the workshop abstract, objectives, goals, relevance, and expected outcome
• Description of workshop topic and the associated research issues
• Motivations why an ACM BCB workshop on this topic should take place
• Description of the anticipated target group(s) of attendees
• Past workshops and other related recent workshops
• Duration of the workshop (full day or half day)
• Contact information (address, email, and phone) for all organizers
• A designated contact person
The organizers are encouraged to provide the following additional information:
• Description of a potential challenge problem
• A preliminary list of reviewers
• One or more potential invited speakers
• A list of potential authors
• A list of potential attendees
Proposers are encouraged to have their drafts reviewed by potential workshop participants.
Workshop proposals should be submitted by email with the subject containing “ACM-BCB 2011 Workshop proposal” to the workshop co-chairs (see below)
Workshop Program Co-Chairs
• Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University (honavar from iastate.edu)
• Taner Sen, USDA-ARS (taner from iastate.edu)
