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SAC 2009
The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 8 - 12, 2009, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Bioinformatics Track
CALL FOR PAPERS
SAC 2009
The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) is a primary forum for applied
computer scientists and application developers from around the world to
interact and present their work. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special
Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation
with other ACM Special Interest Groups. For more information on ACM SAC 2009,
please visit: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/
Bioinformatics Track
A large part of the information to support biological and biomedical research
is available in an increasingly wide variety of rapidly-growing decentralized
databases. The challenge is to obtain information and knowledge from these
databases using innovative computational approaches to support and promote
biological and biomedical research. One example of such a computational
challenge is in identifying biological pathways using data, information, and
knowledge scattered over heterogeneous databases. Computational tools using
system-theoretic approaches are needed to model metabolic pathways,
signal-transduction pathways, genetic regulatory circuits and biological
systems.
By comparing the genomes and pathways of several species at a high level, we
hope to understand how stable biological systems have evolved. Over the last
few years, microarray data have provided many insights into the transcriptome
and into cellular functions. These data are now increasingly complemented by
mass spectrometry data of the proteome, whose analysis poses new computational
challenges.
Track Topics:
* Algebraic Biology
* Bioinformatics for diseases
* Computational genomics and systems biology
* Data visualization and visual analytics
* Databases & Data Integration
* DNA assembly, clustering and mapping
* Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases
* Gene Expression/regulation & Microarrays
* Genomes and protein analysis
* High-performance bio-computing
* Integrative approaches for drug design
* Integrative data and text mining approaches
* Life sciences databases and ontologies
* Machine learning, data integration and data mining in the life sciences
* Molecular sequence analysis, modeling and simulation
* Parallel architectures and algorithms for biological applications
* Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology
* Prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks
* Protein & RNA Structure and Function
* Protein-protein Interactions, prediction, and Molecular Networks
* Query processing and optimization for biological data
* Semantic web for the life sciences
* Sequence Analysis & Alignment, Assembly
* SNPs and Haplotyping
* Structural and functional bioinformatics
* System Biology and Modeling
* Virtual cell modeling
Important Dates
Abstracts/Paper Due: August 16, 2008 (Firm)
Author notification: October 11, 2008
Camera-Ready Due: October 25, 2008
Paper Registration and Submission Guidelines
Authors must register their intent to submit a paper using the conference
management system, eCMS, at: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/ and obtain a
Paper Identification Number. Authors must use eCMS and the Paper Id for further
paper submission and other correspondence.
All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are
currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied
research papers are welcome.
The initial paper submission should not be more than 15 pages long using
11-point font and 1 inch margins on all four sides on letter size paper.
The author(s) name(s) and address(s) must NOT appear in the body of the
submitted paper, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to
facilitate blind review required by ACM. All submitted papers must include the
paper identification number on the front page, above the title of the paper
provided to you by the eCMS when you register your paper.
All enquiries and questions should be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional
details are available at the track home page at http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~bioin
and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009.
Conference Paper Publication
All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at
least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM.
Hence, all accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera-ready
format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The final version of the
paper should not be more than 5 pages long. An additional 3 pages are allowed
with a charge of 80USD per extra page. Final Camera-ready submissions must
follow the template available at:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm
Journal Paper Publication
Expanded version of 4-5 top ranking papers will be accepted for publication in
the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]). Authors will be contacted after the presentation of these papers
at the SAC Conference in Hawaii.
Poster Publication of Selected Papers
A set of selected papers will be accepted as poster papers by invitation only
and will be published as short papers in the symposium proceedings.
Track Chairs
Mathew J. Palakal
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rajaraman Kanagasabai
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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