***PLoS Track Submissions to ISMB/ECCB 2007 is Now Closed***

**PLoS Track Submission Site**

The Public Library of Science, through the official journal of ISCB, PLoS Computational Biology, is pleased to offer the PLoS Track at ISMB/ECCB 2007. The PLoS Track will consist of oral presentations of work of exceptional scientific merit, which focuses on the application of computational methods to solving problems of biological significance. A one page abstract of the work to be presented (including figures and references) will be reviewed by session chairs drawn from the PLoS Computational Biology Editorial Board (http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/edboard.php), the ISCB Board (http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/board.shtml) and the computational biology community.

Chairs will seek work which is scientifically novel and appeals to a broad audience of computational biologists and biologists. We are particularly interested in topics that expand the scope of what has traditionally been presented at ISMB conferences, and in work leading to important biological conclusions. Presentations should include original work that is unpublished or published after 1 April, 2007.

Approximately 40 abstracts will be accepted and made available on the PLoS Computational Biology and ISMB/ECCB 2007 web sites as personal communications (in order to not preclude publishing the work elsewhere). One author of each successful abstract must be available to orally present the work at ISMB/ECCB 2007.

Please note that you will be asked to upload a 1-page PDF abstract. Please see our sample abstract (PDF 88 KB) and sample abstract (MS Word 150 KB). Note that including figures is encouraged.

The submission deadline is April 6, 2007. Further details of scientific themes will be forthcoming. Scope and themes will match those of PLoS Computational Biology and beyond.

PLoS Track Deadlines
December 1, 2006 — Call for Abstracts opens
April 6, 2007 — Abstracts Submission Deadline
May 6, 2007 — Abstract Acceptance Notification

PLoS Track Chairs
Barb Bryant (Chair), PLoS Comp. Biol. Deputy Editor in Chief
Steven Brenner (Co-Chair) PLoS Comp. Biol. Founding Editor
Philip Bourne (Co-Chair) PLoS Comp. Biol. Editor in Chief & Founding Editor

PLoS Liaison
Catherine Nancarrow, PLoS Publications Manager

Area PLoS Chairs
Ecosystems and Ecology Judith Cushing, Evergreen State College, judyc@evergreen.edu
Barbara Eckman, IBM Software Group, baeckman@us.ibm.com
Systems Biology and Networks Chris Sander, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
sanderc@mskcc.org
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, miyano@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Health and Disease Marco Punta, Columbia University, mp2215@columbia.edu
Maricel Kann, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NIH, kann@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Regulation John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University
of Queensland, j.mattick@imb.uq.edu.au
M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Protein Structure and Function Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, thornton@ebi.ac.uk
Neuroscience Lyle Graham, Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, CNRS,
lyle@biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr
Multiscale Modelling Edmund Crampin, University of Auckland, e.crampin@auckland.ac.nz
Evolution Siv Andersson, Uppsala Universitet, siv.andersson@ebc.uu.se
Population Genetics and Variation Doris Bachtrog, University of California, San Diego,
dbachtrog@ucsd.edu
Hua Tang, Stanford School of Medicine, huatang@fhcrc.org
Genomics Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego/Scripps Institute for Oceanography, tgaasterland@ucsd.edu

**PLoS Track Submission Site**