**** Computational Methods for Structural RNAs - CMSR'14 **** An official ECCB'14 workshop September 7th, 2014, Strasbourg http://www.eccb14.org/program/workshops/structural-rnas
Scope: Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) play key roles in various aspects of the gene
transcription and regulation processes, and are the focus of an ever-increasing
interest in all areas of molecular biology. Deciphering the function of a
non-protein coding RNA requires an intimate knowledge of its structure,
motivating the development of structure-centric analyses.
This workshop aims to gather researchers and students, developing or using
computational methods for predicting RNA structures or analyzing their
contribution to biological processes. It will provide a forum for the
dissemination of state-of-the-art methods and tools using discrete
representations of folding landscapes in the context of big data. It will
contribute to establish best-practices towards a better support for large-scale
data within structure-centric algorithms. Relevant topics include but are not
limited to:
* RNA folding prediction: Ab initio & comparative approaches, integrative
methods incorporating probing and enzymatic data
* RNA/RNA, RNA/Protein interactions
* Structural clustering/indexation methods
* Mutational analyses
* Extended folding landscapes: Tertiary modules and non-canonical
interactions, Pseudoknots
* RNA Kinetics
* Structure-centric alignment and modeling
* RNA Design
* Algorithmic foundations: Dynamic Programming frameworks, generic
optimizations, complexity results
* Mathematical models and tools for RNA structure analysis
Key dates:
Paper submission opens: April 24st, 2014
Paper Submission deadline: June 1st, 2014
Paper Acceptance Notification: June 23rd, 2014
Final version of accepted papers: July 7th, 2014
The meeting will feature keynotes from Jan Gorodkin (University of Copenhagen,
Danemark) and Mihaela Zavolan (University of Basel, Switzerland).
Proceedings of the workshop will be published in a special issue of Lecture
Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). A selection of regular papers will be invited,
but not required, to submit an edited version of the manuscript to the Journal
of Computational Biology with high priority publishing. Authors of accepted
papers (regular papers and highlights) will be given the opportunity to present
their work at the workshop.
Submission guidelines: Contributions should be uploaded on the conference
EasyChair instalment at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsr14
We invite two types of contributions.
* Regular papers: Full papers (12pp) describing previously unpublished
research.
Submissions should describe the work up to sufficient details, but
should not exceed 12 page (including references) using standard LNCS template
available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
The scientific content of papers will be evaluated by three independent
reviewers and judged on novelty, relevance to the field, clarity and technical
soundness.
Papers rejected from the main ECCB conference can be resubmitted to the
satellite workshop. These re-submissions will be evaluated through additional
independent reviews. Authors must include with their submission the reviews
received at ECCB together with a response addressing the concerns raised by the
reviewers.
* Highlights: Recently published (or in press) outstanding contributions
(2pp).
Abstract of highlight papers should describe the context and challenge
of the problem and summarize the contribution of the work. Submission should
not exceed 2 pages using standard LNBI stylesheets. One figure can be included
in the abstract. The authors must include a link to the online publication of
the work and indicate the identity of the presenter.
The submission system will be open starting April 24th, 2014 and will close on
June 1st, 2014 at 11:59pm (midnight) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by email on or before June 23rd, 2013. We
request that an author of each accepted paper provides LaTeX files or an MS
Word file in the special format for Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics by July
7th, 2014. Additionally, an author of each accepted paper is expected to attend
the workshop and present the paper.
Steering Committee:
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Austria
Peter Stadler, University Leipzig, Germany
Eric Westhof, University of Strasbourg, France
Program Committee:
Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany
Sarah Burge, EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom
Cédric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Alain Denise, University of Paris-Sud, France
Christoph Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria
Christine Gaspin, University of Toulouse, France
Christian Hoener Zu Siederdissen, University of Vienna, Austria
Fabrice Jossinet, University of Strasbourg, France (co-chair)
Vincent Moulton, University of East Englia, United Kingdom
Dmitri Pervouchine, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Yann Ponty, École Polytechnique, France (co-chair)
Jin Qin, University of Leipzig, Germany
Stefan Seemann, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jérôme Waldispühl, McGill University, Canada (co-chair)
Sebastian Will, University of Leipzig, Germany
Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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