Greetings everybody, the deadline for the workshop on computational methods for structural RNAs has been extended. New deadline is June, 8th. See below for details!
Viele Gruesse, Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- **** 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 deadline: *June 8th, 2014 (11:59 UTC)* (Extended) 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 may 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 Southern Denmark 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 ----- End forwarded message -----
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