Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (CBGI-02)
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cbgi/cbgi.html
March 8-11, 2002
Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Held in Conjunction with the Sixth International Joint Conference on
Information Sciences (JCIS-02)
Program Chair:
Vasant Honavar, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology Graduate Program, Iowa State University
Honorary Chairs:
Terry Magnuson, University of North Carolina
James Siedow, Duke University
Bruce Weir, North Carolina State University
Introduction:
Development of high throughput data acquisition technologies in
biological sciences, together with advances in digital storage,
computing, and communications technologies have begun to transform
biology in general, and molecular biology in particular, from a data
poor science to a data rich science. Examples of biological data sets
include DNA and protein sequence data, macromolecular structure and
function data, and gene expression data.
A major goal of computational molecular biology is to develop
information
processing or algorithmic accounts of biological questions such as:
How is information encoded, stored, decoded, and used in biological
systems? What sequence regularities (if any) are predictive of
protein function? How can we precisely characterize the syntax
(grammar) and semantics (meaning) of macromolecular sequences?
How do hundreds of genes interact over time to orchestrate specific
biological processes of interest (neural development, disease, aging)?
Research in computational biology requires the development of
sophisticated databases, knowledge bases, ontologies, algorithms
and software tools for data storage and retrieval, data integration,
information extraction, exploratory data analysis and discovery
(through data mining and data visualization), experiment design,
using heterogeneous biological data sources. Design and development
of such tools is a major goal of bioinformatics or genome informatics.
Against this background, the Fourth Conference on Computational Biology
and Genome Informatics (CBGI 2002) seeks to bring together researchers
working on all aspects of computational biology and bioinformatics
to exchange recent research results in this area. The conference
also aims to foster a community of researchers interested in this
area. CBGI 2002 grew out of the Atlantic Symposium on Computational
Biology and Genome Information Systems and Technology, which was last
held in North Carolina in March'01. In response to the growing interest
and participation of researchers from around the world in the previous
symposia, CBGI 2002 marks a transition of the Atlantic Symposium into
a major international conference.
CBGI will be held in conjunction with the 6th Joint Conference on
Information Sciences (JCIS). JCIS includes 10 related conferences
and workshops, and CBGI participants paying full JCIS conference
registration fees may attend any of the sessions held during the
7-day meeting.
Topics of Interest:
The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of original research on all aspects of computational
biology and genome informatics including, but not limited to:
Biological Databases
Biological Data Integration
Biological Data Mining
Biological Data Visualization
Biological Information Extraction
Biological Information Retrieval
Biological Knowledge Bases
Biological Knowledge Representation and Infererence
Bioontologies
Computational Drug Discovery
Functional Genomics
Gene Expression Databases
Gene Expression Analysis
Gene Identification
Genetic Network Modelling and Inference
Gene Regulation
Generative Models of Molecular Sequences
Grammatical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Information Theoretic Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Metabolic Pathway Inference
Molecular Dynamics and Simulation
Molecular Evolution
Molecular Sequence Alignment
Molecular Sequence Assembly
Molecular Sequence Classification
Molecular Sequence Databases
Molecular Sequence Pattern and Motifs
Molecular Structure Databases
Molecular Structural Motifs
Macromolecular Structure Prediction
Phylogeny Construction
Proteomics
Protein Folding
Protein Fold Recognition
Protein Function Prediction
Protein Structure Matching and Alignment
Protein Structure Prediction
Protein-Protein Interactions
RNA Structure Prediction
Software Environments for Bioinformatics
Software Tools for Computational Biology
Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Extended Abstracts - Poster Session:
Authors are encouraged to submit an extended abstract for the poster
session at the CBGI'2002 conference. The Poster Session is designed
to enable researchers and practitioners in both the academia and
industry to get early feedback on latest work and also work in
progress. The extended abstracts accepted for the poster session
will be published in the conference proceedings.
Deadlines:
Submission of extended abstract (1 page long): December 1, 2001.
Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2001.
Submission of Extended Abstracts:
Postscript or PDF versions of the extended abstract (1 page long
including
figures and references) prepared according to the formatting guidelines
outlined below should be submitted electronically as per the
instructions
posted on the conference web site,
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cbgi/cbgi.html.
At this time, we are unable to process submissions that are not in the
form of Postscript or PDF files.
At least one of the authors of each extended abstract is expected to
attend the conference and present the paper. A fee of $180 must be
submitted guarantee publication of the abstract in the Proceedings.
The publication fee is deductible from either the full or pre-conference
discounted registration fee. See Web site
(www.cs.iastate.edu/~cbgi/cbgi.html)
for payment information.
Author Instructions:
Extended abstracts should not exceed 1 page in length. The abstract
should be formatted for an 8 1/2 x 11 size page as per the formatting
guidelines posted on the conference web page at:
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cbgi/cbgi.html.
The authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or the
MS WORD templates provided on the conference web page for formatting
their papers and extended abstracts.
The proceedings will be printed in black and white so please do not
include color drawings or photographs. Please keep in mind that poor
quality graphics will not reproduce well.
For more detailed information about the conference please visit the
conference website at http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cbgi/cbgi.html
Important Note:
A few outstanding papers submitted for the poster session might be
considered for oral presentation. Authors interested in having their
papers considered for oral presentation should send an e-mail to
Vasant Honavar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and/or Rajesh Parekh
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Best regards,
Rajesh Parekh
(Poster Session Chair)
